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July 1st

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Daily 1 - A Letter To My Future Self
1/7/2026 12:40

Dear Future me (Tiger),

I hope the school holidays were fun and productive!

The tall palm trees in our estate crowds around the houses, protecting them. Flowers dots the bushes, bringing along a burst of colour and energy. Birds sing pretty melodies, and lizards peacefully enjoy the sun. I'm looking at the beautiful scenery outside and wondering; what changed in nature when you read this? I hope it’s still as beautiful!

I'm right now so nervous for our performance with the orchestra at the end of the year, I wonder how it went and how thrilling it would be on the stage.
I'm imagining shaking hands before walking on to the stage, then hopefully no messing up and finally loosening up, and then afterwards maybe relief hits so hard I almost faint?

In scratch I'm crossing my fingers to get many more followers and friends, and improve my coding, but more importantly have fun and be satisfied with my projects! Hopefully my art will also improve lol. My goal is to have…..hmm maybe 150 followers when I read this! And 20 projects! Oh by the way, gooooo gothic cabin!!! I'm rooting for you guys to win…is that the right grammar…

Also how’s school going? Are you getting good grades? And are you still obsessed with Keepers of the Lost Cities or have you moved on? Oh and also have the new book in KoTLC been released yet?

I hope that you, future me, will accomplish our goals and keep dreaming, reaching out and pushing past my limits! I also hope you'll earn more opportunities with my violin and tennis, and who knows, adopt a cat for a sibling of my puppy!

Oh and because I'm scared things will get to sappy, I really really hope one day I'll get to try KFC and have GYG again, oh and SubWay…hehe!!!! Maybe I’ll even like chocolate someday…

But with all those questions and dreams, the most important question is; is everyone in my family safe and happy?

Wishing all the very best,
Tiger from the past

Dear me.

Are we doing well?
I know it’s a stupid question. Of course we are.
I guess the more important question would be—how are you?
Right now, I don’t think I’m doing so great. I took too many credits this term (10 credits in just 4-5 weeks, what was I thinking??) and bit off more than I could chew. Hopefully this’ll make me get on top of things. It probably won’t.
But you already know all of that.
I could tell you any number of things about today, this past week, this month—but I don’t really want to.
I do have some questions for you, though.
What kind of research do we end up doing? Do you like it? Do you hate it?
Which PhD programs do we apply to? Which ones do we get into, if any?
Did we make the most of this summer? I’ve got a lot of plans—matching shirts, improving our fashion, learning makeup, the list goes on—but did we actually do any of them?
Who are you? When all of the facades go away, who are you? What makes us, us? What do we value? What do we believe in? What have we done? For ourselves? For the people we love?
Are you someone I could be proud of?
Are you someone I would want to be?

Are you happy?
It’s okay if you aren’t. I get it.
Take care of yourself, though. I care about you.

On a less serious note—
Do we ever break the curse of being eternally single? Or do we just pine all the time? (It’s really annoying, by the way, so you should really stop doing that and just talk to people. God.)
Do we get a dog? What’re they like? Can’t wait to meet them
That’s all for now. Stay safe!

Best,
pyr3ite

Daily 1 || Letter to myself || 478/300 words

Hello to my past, present, and future self. I know we probably haven't had the greatest relationship since past session, what with school and some family stress. However, I am glad to announce that we are out of the thick of it. School is over, and as of yesterday, it is official that I passed with exceedingly high marks, thanks to my stressed out, near ready to explode past self. …sorry for forcing you through that by procrastinating on nearly everything until the last possible minute. At least stress is your best motivator. That and low grades. Probably not all that healthy to be relying on that though.
I can say that I will do my best to ensure next year is smooth sailing. It's senior year of high school. I'm gonna keep things light while I try to muddle out what I'm doing for post-secondary. We've got a fairly easy schedule anyways.
One thing I can say I'm proud of my former self is their motivation to actually better myself. I've noticed myself declining, rotting away while watching videos, and just overall, not great habits. And my past self saw that it needed to stop, and simply set an alarm nearly daily to go for a walk. Catch a break from life. Recenter myself, have a desire to do something other than sit in bed. While I can't say it has had huge success yet because I've only been doing it fairly inconsistently for the past 3 weeks, I think it'll eventually show its benefits, especially in the upcoming school year.
As for my future self, I have some suggestions for you:
1. Take it easy this summer. You've been doing well. You deserve a break.
2. Spend time with your family. They deserve your love, especially in such stressful times for some.
3. Keep going on walks. Maybe run. Use the exercise bike. Yoga. Something. Anything active.
4. Overall, just keep being you. You will accomplish great things if you follow the above. But you will never be happy unless you remain your authentic self. Keep enjoying Tomodachi Life and reading Bug Fables fanfics and learning video game songs on your trumpet. Do what you want without others holding you back. You've done it so well for the past couple of years. No need to stop now.
Overall, life has had its ups and downs so far. Past me felt it. I still feel it sometimes. I will continue to feel it in the future. This is the cheesiest letter I've ever written to myself, but it's true. Through SWC. Through summer. Through the rest of my high school career. For my whole life. Regardless, we will get through it. Even if it doesn't seem like an accomplishment to make it this far, congratulations. And I will always be cheering you on in the future, no matter what I say.

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daily : letter to my future self : 7/1 : 365 words
Dear Future Surf,
Hi! Now that July is almost over, what are your reflections on the month? School and clubs (not to mention tennis tryouts) are starting soon. Are you looking forward to these, or do you (most likely) wish that summer was just a bit longer? Usually, by the time August comes, I would love it if summer was longer but this year I’m working so much! It’s equally exciting and scary, especially knowing that college admissions are coming soon. Speaking of which, I hope you’ve put your SWC writing skills to use and begun your personal essays. Oh, and have you gotten started on summer reading and your AP science assignments yet?
How did the last week and a half of your summer internship go? I know it’s been pretty busy so far, though you’ve learned a lot about geology and it’s been cool to do mostly independent-based research. Did you see any interesting things or go anywhere exciting in the city? This past week, it’s been really interesting to live in the city though I’m not quite sure if I’d like to live here for college or for a job. Maybe I’m more of a commuter? Regardless, I know you’ve probably aced your final presentation and done amazingly.
How’s your other internship program going? I hope it hasn’t been /too/ hot, especially in the sun, but of course you’re doing well. Have you learned a lot from the experience? I hope it isn’t that exhausting, and that you still have time to practice tennis and get ahead on your coursework for next year.
How has your writing been going this month? My original goals were to work on some short stories (and maybe even a novelling project), along with my personal essays, potentially some contest entries, and I’d also been considering writing some nonfiction articles for fun. That’s pretty ambitious (though not unachievable) so I’m pretty curious how it went! I’ve been really looking forward to penpalswc and hopefully completing all four weeklies this session.
Anyway, I have to get ready for another day of my internship. I hope you enjoy the rest of your summer!
Looking forward to your reply,
Surf

To a wiser, wilder, hopefully stronger version of myself -

The past years have been tumultuous, but you've finally been presented with the flatlands. you've graduated high school, You're soon heading off to college, and right now, you're trapped in limbo, a moment of peace on the brink of adulthood. I think to myself about how surreal our life is - how come this time a year and a half ago, this future did not exist; our future did not exist. But today it does.

It's been a long time since we've properly done SWC - and I have a lot of hopes. I know a lot of them won't work out the way I've always envisioned, and that's okay. I don't know if I'll actually plan a novella. I don't know if I'll write myself a masterpiece. But that's okay - because this time, we're not in it for perfection. We're in it for the joy of reconnecting with a form of creativity that made you the person you are today.

I do, however, have three fundamental hopes for you. Here they are:

As you can see, you've wisened up quite a bit since you first joined SWC half a decade ago. I hope over this next month you grow wiser, more clever. Maybe that means finding new writing styles or productivity techniques, or maybe learning something new about yourself. But seek out new knowledge - and expand your mind.

Next, I dare you to be wild. We've been shackled by constraints of academia and internal pressure, and now those shackles have been broken - or so I suspect. I hope you write freely, without fear of perfection. I hope you break the pattern that's kept us from writing properly for four years now.

Lastly - and this one doesn't have anything to do with writing - I hope you keep choosing to be strong. Like I said, a lot has happened to us. But we were strong enough to get through it. And as this month poses its own challenges, physical, mental, emotional - I hope you grow stronger, and you continue to get through it no matter what life throws.

So let's see where the wind blows. Maybe it's a short story, maybe it's a poem. Maybe it's only dailies or maybe it's every single weekly. But no matter which way the dominos topple, just know -

You got this.

All my love,
Luna
July 1, 2026

Telly's July 2026 Writing Thread

Dailies:
July 2nd- Your baby teeth would pray for you- 502 words
July 5th- Arnold Isekai- 391 words
Weeklies:

Miscellaneous:
Frantic Fanfic (Up to July 6)- 2259 words

Notes:
Anything underlined within the writing will be excluded from the word count.

↻ ◁ II ▷ ↺

◪ Noͦ 1
Wordcount: 354/300
Topic: You’ll be writing a letter to your future self.
Points: 400+100 for proof
Cabin: Dystopian-Xenofi love child

Dear Ava,

Do you remember last time when you wrote a letter to yourself for a similar daily? You opened it almost a year after the session, and you didn't even remember you had written it. It was kind of emotional since most letters you write to yourself you usually remember, so it doesn't really have any impact on you because you already know what's going to be written in it, but when you don't remember a letter, that's when it really hits.

How do you feel at the end of this July session? Have you spread enough chaos around the cabins? Have you at least reached your word goal? You finished a whole 10,000 words just on the first day because of your fanfiction writing tendencies, so reaching the 50,000 should be way easier now. I hope you also wrote chapters for your actual novel too instead of just fixating on the fanfiction, because you really need to start locking in on that </3 You were supposed to finish it last year in December, and you're already 6 months late without a proper story layout! I think before you work on any other pieces, you should properly sketch out the series. The reason it's so hard is mainly your fault for making it so complicated and interconnected. That's all on you for making so much lore.

Other than writing, have you produced any more pieces? I know it's hard to produce music, especially when you can't do it when you feel it, but you have to hone your skills if you want them to get any better. Maybe you made something happier than the last beat, or maybe you made something more hip-hop style? I'm betting on the hip-hop; you never did get how to code the guitars into the interface properly </3

Most importantly, I really hope that you didn't skip any weeklies or dailies! You're not even travelling anywhere this time, so you better have done every single one. We will get first this time >

Love, your one month younger self,
Ava

Daily 1 - Letter to myself

379/300 words

Dear Future Vi,

How’s it going?

A little bit about me in case you forgot or want to know where I am right now:
- One cat, his name is Cory. I still haven't forgotten Topanga though
- Still haven’t redecorated my room
- About to go into 9th grade
- Straight, i think
- I’m starting to come up with a story for the beanbodies
- I still haven’t been able to stick with a story
- Brown hair
- Currently obsessed with Young Sherlock

Alright… know I have some questions for you. How’s it going? How was/is high school? Have we made any new friends? As of right now, I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. Have you explored photography/psychology? I hope it’s going well. Those are my only two ideas right now.

Are you still friends with Hat and Mushroom? I know it’s hard to keep in touch with people, but I at least trust that you tried. Are they doing well? In addition to that - how are Cherry, Rainbow, Math, and Metal?

It feels awkward just asking question after question, but I don’t know what else to do.

Oh yes how is Waterfountain? I know it's hard since we’ll likely never see Waterfountain again but I do hope you have the wedding pictures printed out and have celebrated every anniversary. I also hope we have gotten better at Waterfountain’s non-existent pronouns.

PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU’VE REDECORATED BY NOW.

Is AI still taking over everything? I mean, obviously it is but has the ‘AI Bubble popped’ or whatever that means? OH AND HAVE YOU BEATEN THE SKULL CAVERNS AND FINALLY EXPLORED GINGER ISLAND IN YOUR 5-YEAR SAVE FILE OF STARDEW VALLEY??!?! You need to do that. If you haven’t, go steal the switch now.

Now, I do hope that you've continued with SWC. It is actually so fun and so helpful- tell me how it is.

Aside from that, it really has been lovely talking with you. I sincerely wish you the best, as you are me, and I hope everything is well- though remember, it’s okay if it's not. Even if you think you have no one, you still have you- make sure that never changes.

See ya!
Vi, on July 1st of 2026.

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dearest future silky,

how time does fly indeed! do you remember the end of school when you were cramming for exams? how chaotic that was indeed! next time – perhaps start studying at least 2 weeks before the exam? :eyes: with that being said, i hope that your infection never comes back (tell me it hasn’t) and you’ll remain a happy and healthy person for the rest of your life <3

now to the slightly more fun stuff! did you get sandrone yet? has your luck in genshin been improving? (i sure hope so – losing so many 50/50s in a row, on hard pity nonetheless is certainly annoying </3 after all – remember how we spent at least 600 pulls on columbina and ineffa banners and got c3r1 bina and c0r1 ineffa? that’s like 85 pulls per 5 star :skull: which i suppose isn’t that bad but def could’ve been better) what about hsr? did you get any cool new characters? is hyacine getting a rerun yet? (please say yes i need her for castorice and evernight :sob: ) and if she is, please tell me you got her! did you work on any cool writing pieces yet? and has your writing style gotten better? i must admit, while i was looking through my google drive, i found some horrendous pieces made by me :sob: hopefully i won’t look at my writing pieces that way in the future, right?

how has school been, by the way? fun? exciting? tiresome? have you taken any aps? (did they let you take ap macro and micro? i really don’t want to take ap human geography :sob: ) have you meet any new friends? what about your old friends – they’re still doing fine right? :> i’m hoping everything’s going well!

i’m sure i have many many many more questions for you, but i can’t seem to remember on the top of my head just yet :sob: perhaps i’ll remember once i open this letter in a few few months! with all that, i wish you very good luck and hopefully everything is turning out okay! <3

from your dearest past silky <33

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Prisha's Thread

Daily 1: Letter to My Future Self (487 words)
Dear Prisha,
I have so, so, so many things I want to ask you, so I’m splitting this letter into parts both as a reflection to remind you of what I have accomplished and a series of questions to see what you have done. I’m not kidding–I literally just made an entire list so I would remember what to ask. You’ll be in high school by now.
First things first, how’s the book going? I know you’re probably working on some wip (I hope you have time for that lol), but did we finish our second book? I was really hoping to finish the draft by July, but I’m pretty sure that’s not happening. I love the premise, though, and I’m excited to finally write about these characters. Remember our first book? It was so bad–I can’t believe I thought it was publishable. I’m still querying it, but I’m not interested in changing it right now–maybe I’ll visit it again later.
Also, did you finally resume the academic grind? I hope you’re doing well in class, especially now that science olympiad is no longer a commitment. Did you decide to take math lessons, anyways? How’s the high school course load? Right now I’m gearing up for a final, torturous year of middle school. My friends suck, academics are painfully easy, and science olympiad is stressful. I just hope you’re doing better.
Now that science olympiad is over forever, what are you doing? What new things did you pick up, and what did you keep? How’s our spanish fluency, and did we finally pick up martial arts again? I’m thinking about starting it right now, but I’m still unsure about what type to do. I’m doing spanish, of course, because I’m determined to learn another language, but I’m curious about how far we got. Right now, we’re at the easy/medium end of beginner.
Right now, my stress management SUCKS, and, while it might just be because of science olympiad, I’m curious about how you manage stress. Is it less stressful without science olympiad, or does the course load compensate? Have you finally found a way to manage stress that works? Did we end up asking the doctor if we had some mental problem, or were we just too shy?
I’m unhappy with my friendships right now. It feels like I have a village, but not one that’s right for me. I don’t even know what the right village looks like, but it’s not this one. How are your friendships? Did you finally find your people? Who are you still friends with?
No matter what, always remember that we have drive. We have done so, so much just by persevering where others wouldn’t, and we will continue to achieve great things. Don’t worry about college–even the best schools aren’t as good on campus as they seem. Love yourself, and keep doing what you’re doing!
Ciao, Your Past Self


Scorpions and A Star Wars (starting of When Will My Life Begin from Tangled) (563 words)

Author’s Note: I misinterpreted the lyrics when I was really little, and my dad happened to have a video of it *sobs*. Please note that I have only seen three Star Wars movies and remember pretty much none of them, and that my knowledge of scorpions is… not a lot. I looked up a few summaries?
Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away… there lived a scorpion. Not just any scorpion. Scorpion Skywalker, maniacal metal-eating maniac and alliteration addict. But little did he know that his entire life was about to be upended.
Dig dig dig. Scorpion’s claws moved faster than a dog when it gets caught chewing power cables, inhaling the dust with his non-existent lungs (do scorpions have spiracles? If they’re not insects, what are they classified as?). The rich, dung-like scent of highly fertile soil filled his non-existent nostrils (Voldemort?), reminding him of the nursery he’d been born in. Oh, those were the good old days, when dung was still found everywhere. Before The Cleaning.
Scorpion groaned. There was no point mourning the loss of good dung–it wasn’t like the humans would ever drop their dung on the streets again. Something about it being unhygienic.
If only someone could overthrow the evil Rapunzel, so busy caring for her hair that all the rules she implemented were to benefit it and not the people. Or insects. Who cared if her hair had dung in it? That just meant she’d be more attractive to the real machos–like him–instead of that disgustingly smirky ex-criminal who she had decided to marry and make king.
Seriously–they needed to be overthrown. If only there was someone brave, strong, and macho enough to sting them both in the behinds and take over. If only…
Scorpion scuttled away from his pit and picked up the metal parts. The cup, wires, and car parts would fit, but the poles were too tall.
Rumble. Scorpion eyed the horizon uneasily. It was hard to tell if those rumbles were earthquakes or the Clorox Wipes. He eyed his space–sandy, messy, and speckled with the occasional dung (hey, a scorpion needs his dung, okay?). He thought of the disgustingly sharp, lemony smell of the Clorox Wipes as they charged and “cleaned” his spot, leaving nothing behind but white and wetness. With a shudder, he dropped the poles and hurriedly buried his remaining metal parts. It was better to have some than none.
Then, he burrowed under the ground, waiting.

Ladybug Skywalker wasn’t your average ladybug. She wasn’t pretty, lady-like, or even red. But she had her strengths.
Ladybug eyed the Clorox Wipes nearing her headquarters. She loaded her sixteen cannons with aphids (they were getting compensated handsomely, don’t worry), preparing to strike. She wasn’t going to let a bunch of neat freaks vandalize her home.
Seriously–how was nature considered dirty now? She missed the old rulers, who let the insects do their own thing and even offered gifts in exchange for submission. Her mouth watered at the thought of seasoned aphid stew, cooked only the way a royal chef could. She eyed the aphids in her cannons.
You can’t eat them, she told herself. They’re your only shot at survival. She steeled herself with the promise to invade the royal kitchens and prepared to strike.

Daily 6: 700 words (but it wouldn't let me post the remaining amount

Author’s Note: Sorry if I went a little crazy with this one lol

Large, lounge-like room teeming with guests sipping cocktails, eating treats that look way too tiny, and dressed in red and black. The event is semi-formalish, so many women are in glittering or matte dresses in various shades of red, while all the men wear black suits with red ties to match with their partners. The women have very nice hair, good nails, and a lot of jewelry on.

*awkward silence–all that can be heard is the depressing small talk being made in posh accents of the rich and the sipping of that one old man who no one dares lecture because he’s REALLY rich*

DJ: It’s a little too silent, isn’t it?

*switches something on*

“Heaven” by TXT starts playing, and the room feels much less awkward. People open up a little more.

Rich lady: So, what do you do? (to other man sitting at her table)

Other man (old man who was sipping too loudly): *shrugs, inwardly smiling to himself that she’s never heard of him* Nothing much.

──★ ˙ letter to my future self
408 words … july 1

Reflect back on your past and share what you hope to achieve, and make sure to write at least 300 words for 400 points, with an additional 100 points for proof!

Dear Future Rue/Felix,

Hello! It is I, the amazing past Rue (too whimsical right now to be Felix). I can’t believe it has been a year since I joined SWC, and it has been a wonderful ride. I remember discovering it when I was sick during March, and what do you know? I got sick again during the March season! Time has surely flown by, and we’ve learned a lot about ourselves(?).

The school year has ended, and 7th grade was truly… something to say the least. My wish for you is that the one teacher who’s horrible at educating gets fired. If we weren’t bonded by being the same person, we would definitely be bonded through our shared hatred for that teacher. I hope that 8th grade is way better.

Anyways, you better still like Stray Kids. By the time you’re reading this, are they in the military yet? If so, how are you putting up with it? Did you get into Modyssey or some other group more, or are you still mourning your loss? Whatever the answer is, I hope we were able to go to the concert again. I still remember the first one we went to in 2025. It was a wonderful and unforgettable night.

I wonder, do we still identify as lesbian non-binary? Please say we’re dating someone. I need a real life yuri. Or are you a straight cisfemale? Before I forget, tell Frito I said ‘hi’, if he’s still alive (he better be, or else I’ll touch your toes). Did he get a girlfriend yet? We must continue the Frito dynasty

Wait, is this letter supposed to be for the end of the SWC season??? Uh oh well it’s fine, most of the stuff I said can be applied anyways.

I hope for this season I will be able to complete my goal of 50k words. I also hope that I’m able to balance out this, Artfight, and my personal life. So hopefully I won’t get burnt out (again). Please tell me that you didn’t. I really want to successfully do Scratch Writing Camp and get back into writing. I swear, it’s like when it’s not a season I can write like 100k words a day. But the moment SWC starts, I can’t even touch a keyboard.

I hope you are doing well, and that we accomplished many great things. I’ll see you soon in the future!

From,
Past Rue

408 words

❥・01
Wordcount・315/300
Topic・Writing a letter to my future self
Points・400 (+100 for proof)
Cabin・Bi-fi

Dear Future Summer,

Hello! How was the rest of vacation? And camp and stuff? Also, did we get KanaMafu in Tomodachi Life? Or possibly other ships too? My bad, that may be too many questions at once. Oops. Anyways, I hope SWC was fun this month! Did we ever get our scratch comments working at home when we got back? Or did we only get to participate for 6 days… Please say that it isn't the latter. I'm sure we found a solution.. Right? We better have. Or Scratch better have. What I mean is that issue SHOULD be fixed, okay?
Sorry, that was a bit of a sidetrack in the conversation. Did you ever fully finish writing the script for *forgets name of own indie series* uhhh whatever that thing you've spent lots of time on characters and plot lines? Yeah, yeah that. You know. Definitely didn't forget the name of it *cough*. Did you maybe make the models for Ayumi and Jonah and… Uh… The other one? I hope that was fun if you did. Did you open art commissions yet? Also, please say our channel isn't flopping as hard as it is right now. I wish us both an easier time finding animation trends while they're still, well, trending.
More on tomodachi life.. Are Daisay and Lilith still happy little lesbians? They deserve it in that universe, because of what… Happens in their actual world. Also, please say you actually finished the other characters for the kingdoms. And that we didn't make the prince of death just really emo and we gave him and the princess of life a complex and detailed design along with the prince of death. I beg. Not sure what else to say to you, so I guess that's goodbye. See you in the future!
Oh, yes, last thing… BI-FI FOR THE WIN!!! #bififtw

With love,
- Past Summer

1k intro

Hello! I’m Abby! Nice to meet you! (Or see you again if we’ve met in a previous session). This is my fourth session of SWC, and I’m really really excited. My last couple of sessions have been really fun, between an awesome community and great writing prompts and activities. I also had some great cabin leaders and teammates. (No pressure, gothic.) Obviously, I’m in gothic this time around, which is definitely the best cabin. But all the cabins do have really great combinations of people, like everybody's been saying. You can’t point at a single cabin and say that the people in there aren’t absolutely amazing. And there’s a really great mix of veterans, first timers, and people like me that are kind of in the middle.

So, getting to me, I’m a sophomore in high school and kind of a geek. I like math and science, and am actually looking into becoming a teacher. Not that seriously right now, but I’m pretty sure thats the career path I’ll end up on. I just kind of like the idea that instead of doing one thing, I’ll teach kids that will go on to do a bunch of things. And *gasp* I’m one of those weirdos who actually likes to go to school. I know, right? I hate tests and whatnot, but I do love to learn.

Outside of school, though, I obviously love to read and write. Some of my favorite books right now are Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon, A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo. As you can probably tell from that list I do like really romance, but not too cheesy. If the title makes me want to barf, I’m not going to read the book. My sister likes the really cheesy romances, but who really wants to read something called The Geography of You and Me? I’m pretty picky with my romances, so I also like books to have something else that the story’s about besides them getting together. A good moral or a lesson the characters learn. I’ll also read fantasy (which I’m less picky about), and I really like the Tiger’s Curse series and KOLTC. (Yay, KOLTC! And yes, I’m Team Foster-Keefe). I do read fantasy romances, but they have to have both a good fantasy plot, and a good romance, though I prefer the fantasy being the focus. I also write a lot, not really well, but if you read enough you eventually end up writing. That’s kinda what happened to me. I usually try to write fantasy, or realistic fiction, but I do stay away from romance when I write, just cause I’m a little bit scared of writing it. I might try a little for SWC this session, though, if all goes well.

Other than reading and writing, I do like to run. I don’t do it for the school or a team or anything, because I don’t want to run when I’m told for how far I’m told. That’s just way too boring for me. But I will go run randomly, just for fun. I’m not really serious about it, unlike my sister, who is on the cross country team and run 5ks just because. I don’t run with her because I think she takes it way too seriously. But I’m also pretty crafty, and I love to make little decorations or useful things I can put in my room. (My room’s pretty boring) Right now I’m really into making interesting birthday cards for people, because a lot of my family and friends have birthdays around this time of year. So I’ll go look up some fun ideas, change it a little to fit the supplies I have, and make a birthday card. The only problem is, I don’t have the greatest handwriting, so sometimes it’ll be a beautiful card with a shakily written happy birthday. (I probably need to get stencils or something.) But I make lots of things besides cards, especially if it involves washi tape. That is the best crafting material by far. It even beats out construction paper. But my washi tape collection might be getting a little bit out of control at this point. Have you ever seen the 50-pack washi tapes at Hobby Lobby? They’re my favorite birthday present to get.

I’m still not very far through this, so I’m going to have to find a lot more things to talk about. Umm… I have cats! They’re feral outdoor cats, so they come and go (and sometimes die), but right now we have 5. Precious, Storm, Sage, and Dusk. They have weird names, I know, but we wanted to be original. Precious has lived here for years, but she did get kind of old and grumpy. She doesn’t really like any of the other cats, but she isn’t strong enough to fight them. So she just sits there and bosses them around. Dusk is the complete opposite of her. He’s been showing up at our house every once and a while for years, and he’s the nicest cat we’ve ever had. He even lets Precious boss him around, despite the fact that he’s twice her size, and could easily fight her off if he wanted to.. Storm is an adorable, mischievous kitten who showed up about a year ago, and it’s been super fun having a kitten around again. They love to play with stuff, unlike the older cats, so I got a couple of cat toys to try out on him. And last but not least, Sage is a crazy but fun cat who just showed up a couple weeks ago. We don’t know much about her yet, but she’s really skinny and kind of mangy, so we’ll try to take good care of her. We also have about 20 chickens at my, house, though we don’t bother to name them, because they all kind of look and act the same. The only interesting ones are our two roosters, who cockle doodle doo every time they see us, and attack you if you get too close.

Anyways, I’ve hit 1000 words now, so I guess I’m done with this! Come say hi if we have anything from here in common, or if you just want to chat, and I’ll see you around this session.

Hi! I’m Skylar (she/her), a seventeen-year-old veteran SWC-er. This session is my thirteenth session, and I’ve been participating on-and-off since March 2021. I’ve officially finished mandatory schooling as of June 18th, and have just finished sitting my A Level exams! I took Biology, Chemistry, Maths, and Physics for my A Levels, and yes, that was the absolute nightmare you think it was. Eleven exams in three weeks was not fun… this is what I get when the exam boards all collectively timetable it so that all the sciences and maths are after half term, bar one exam. But that’s all done now and if everything goes well on results day in August, I’ll be heading off to study civil engineering at university (and then hopefully fix the mess that is the British rail infrastructure!)

I absolutely love writing, with my favourite genres to write being realistic fiction and science fiction. I love writing in realistic fiction because I really enjoy exploring the everyday lives of my characters, and it also involves a lot of projecting. Many of my characters are in part what I could see myself doing in the future, and I usually write lots of fluff when writing realistic fiction. I also enjoy science fiction and I take heavy inspiration from Star Trek when writing many of my science fiction worlds. I enjoy writing about my characters exploring space and encountering various things,

As for my goals this session, I’m aiming to write a novel! Though with my ADHD, we shall see how that goes… I’m currently struggling with plot, but we’re making some progress on it! It’s set in my universe where I try to explore how public services are affected by the rise of superheroes and was basically born because I mashed up a whole bunch of my favourite TV show genres together. It’s got action, medical drama, police and law procedural, and a lot of secret agent shenanigans occurring. I’m really excited to work on this project, but we shall see where I end up at the end of the session. It’s really fun, and I love writing about my characters complaining about the bureaucratic systems the way I would in real life.

Other goals I have outside of SWC this session involve fixing my Chinese! Now that I’m done with school, I’m planning on fixing my inability to read or write Chinese and speak beyond a getting through family gatherings sort of way. It’ll be a fun journey and hopefully I finish my summer with better Chinese skills than I started with, seeing as it would be an incredibly useful skill to me in the future. I’m working my way through HSK 1-4 and we’ll see if I can become less illiterate by the end of this summer! I will also probably be able to get words from all the writing practice I’m going to be doing, but it’ll be highly inefficient. I actually never went to Chinese school growing up so the first time I ever formally learnt Chinese was for my GCSEs, which I got a 9 in, but then I promptly forgot everything I learnt.

Another project I’m working on outside of SWC this summer is that I’m learning to code! I’m basically starting over in Python again since I haven’t coded for about five years, and I need to be able to code for my university course. I’m not sure what things I’ll end up coding, probably just code to solve some problems. It’ll be really fun and really frustrating but I’m excited to be doing something I haven’t done for a while.

Some more fun facts about me! I figure skate and I enjoy it so much - I’ve just learnt how to do a backspin and toe loop and a toe loop is my favourite jump. I love the feeling of gliding on ice and going around the ice rink and it’s one of the sports I actually like. I’m not a very sporty person, if you couldn’t already tell, though I did do tennis and swimming when I was younger!

I also have an extremely nerdy video game taste. I haven’t had a computer for ages so I’ve been unable to play many video games, but as of now, I primarily play the rhythm game Project Sekai and my favourite character is Saki! I absolutely love Project Sekai, but there are other games that I’m also excited to play. These games include Cities Skylines (a city building game), Kerbal Space Program (a spaceflight game where you engineer stuff and try to get Kerbals to fly places in their solar system), and Niche: A Genetics Survival Game (a game where you have a bunch of animals and you try to evolve them to suit their environment).

I need to yap for another 200 words or so, and I promised Hope that I’d make this yap about trains, so I’m going to talk about why I decided I wanted to go into Civil Engineering! I always loved infrastructure and how things were built and I got really interested in trains for some reason? I don’t know why trains were so fascinating to me, but they were, and so I went down the rabbit hole of public transport in London and got really obsessed with the tube. This later expanded into the wider British railway network, of which I have several strong opinions on, especially about HS2. This then led me to picking civil engineering when I later began considering doing engineering as a career because I wanted to fix the mess that was the British railway infrastructure. I could honestly go on forever about trains at this point, but I think I’ve successfully made the point that I like trains and I am going to Fix Them.

There’s a lot more that I could talk about, but I didn’t get up until about ten this morning and then spent half an hour making breakfast, and I need to go be productive elsewhere right now, so I’m going to end things here. If you want to come talk to me about anything mentioned here, please do drop by my profile and say hi! I’d love to talk to you about things and I love getting to know new people. I’m really bad at responding to messages though, so do prod me if I haven’t responded!

Dear Future Skylar,

I hope that when you’re reading this, you’ve had a fun and productive July. I don’t know what, exactly, you’ve accomplished, but I hope you’ve made some decent progress on the novel you planned to write at the start of the session and also your plan to go through HSK 1-4 this summer, and you’ve also enjoyed the life of having absolutely no exams. Please do keep practicing your Chinese, the less illiterate you are in the future the better (and also the more languages you can learn!) so you can travel to China and Taiwan by yourself and not be confused. You probably wouldn’t want what happened to your Mandarin after GCSEs to happen here, would you?

The fact that school is all over is a bit wild, honestly, but I’m sure by the end of the session you’ve forgotten all about the papers you sat and that you’re not worrying about results day in two weeks because you have camp to look forward to! The past two years have been a crazy joyride, and sixth form has been home to some great memories for you. Future you is going to do so much great stuff in university, and there’ll be so much more to look forward to when the new term starts and you move in!

I also hope you’ve been able to learn how to cook! The more you learn how to cook the better since I don’t think future you is going to appreciate living off a rice cooker and instant noodles and beans on toast for a year so the sooner you can rectify that the better. I wonder what yummy dishes you’ve learnt how to cook. Also, have you been able to slice spring onions properly too? Also don’t forget the salt! Salt is very important.

Finally, how’s figure skating going? I hope you’re having a fun time at the rink and have sped through the dance level and are close to passing it! I hope you’ll be able to continue your skating journey into university, and I think that we are both very happy that our firm choice university is a place with an ice rink. Crossing our fingers for results day now, I guess! What sort of fun things have you been doing on ice recently? I know we’ve just passed our backspin recently and I hope you can still keep it up. And I hope the edge work is helping too, edges are a pain but they’re also great. And that you can teach your friends the lovely angular momentum trick too - if your spins are stable enough.

Honestly, I don’t think I have much to add here to future me/you (look, writing a letter to your future self is hard, okay?) but I hope that when you read this letter again - if you read this letter again - you’ve achieved some of the things you set out to do!

Past Skylar

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ahh hello! looks like you made it through july :)) i hope it was as much fun as you hyped it up to be, your cabin looks like so much fun already and even offline you have fun plans <3

did you and your band friend keep in touch over the summer?? bro you better have bahaha, the fresking galts must live on :muscle: how is band, by the way? any news on potential future gigs? what about your saxophone, have you been practicing? i heard there was rumor you were going to sell your current sax for a new one… i guess we'll see what happens within the next 31 days bwahaha

hmm what about writing wise? i know your goal was 10k but i feel like with all the bedrotting you've been doing you could double that, potentially set a new personal record? the goal for this month is to do half the dailies, half the weeklies, and throw in a few word wars and consitent penpal letters with another camper, i expect nothing less of you mwahaha

i'm trying a new writing site as we speak, did you keep using it, or go back to google docs? so far i like it, it's cute and functions well enough for someone who's just learning to use it, so i approve! but i understand if you go back to google docs, especially since this is a browser and i couldn't find an app for it like how docs is already on my phone. but it's nice that this isn't linked to your school account ;D

anyway, i think i'll leave you be until the end of the month! stay consitent with reading your bible, have so much fun writing, keep in touch with friends (and make some new ones this session!), and make sure to practice practice practice! you're such a beast, ilysm and i'm proud of you regardless <3

love, past pepper

Hello everyone and welcome to the first daily of this session…it’s time to get out the envelopes and stamps! Along with a little self-introduction in the Main Cabin comments, for today’s daily, you’ll be writing a letter to your future self. Reflect back on your past and share what you hope to achieve, and make sure to write at least 300 words for 400 points, with an additional 100 points for proof!

Dear future Sage,
Wow, this officially marks one year of participating in SWC. Time sure does fly, doesn’t it? Seeing that you’ve now participated in four sessions, there is a lot to look back on and improve. For one, I would like to be more active. In the past, I feel as if I wasn’t very engaged in SWC. This session, I (or “we”) should try to do at least five dailies a week, and two weeklies. Additionally, we should try writing approximately 700 words a day, so that we can surpass our goal of 20,000 words. We’ve never reached it before and I believe if we put our mind to it, we can reach it this time. I also would love it if we can get a lot of progress on our novel in the next 30 days, seeing that more words would help our cabin! We should also do as many critiques as possible. Reasons: more points and improved writing! This session, I want us to improve as much as possible. Another goal, though not directly linked to SWC, is to be more present in real life. I feel as if, in the past, whenever it was SWC, I would just forget everyone else. I’m also hoping that, with screen time and SWC in mind, I will spend more focus on writing and not scrolling. This session, especially since it’s the summer, I want to be able to find a balance between SWC and life, however that might look like.
I wish you the utmost luck in completing (and maybe even surpassing) these goals! I hope when we come out of this, we will be better, more experienced, writers (and maybe even people?).
I hope you had an amazing and impactful SWC session.
Sincerely,
~ your past self.

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