As a side note, would you guys prefer rotations to be every month or every two months?

• @QuirkyPROgrammer_101*

On another note, how have you been, people? Up to anything interesting recently? Here's an emoticon to wish you all good health and happiness for the remainder of this month and the start of September! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

Casually hyperventilating cause 2022 is in 4 months (´。＿。｀)

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

As a side note, would you guys prefer rotations to be every month or every two months?

Every month! everyone gets a chance to do different stuff

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

• @QuirkyPROgrammer_101*

Love this report card thingy! Looking forward to have a lime asterisk in the next month next to my name
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QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

JollofRice123 wrote:

On another note, how have you been, people? Up to anything interesting recently? Here's an emoticon to wish you all good health and happiness for the remainder of this month and the start of September! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

Doing good! How are you doing?

Casually hyperventilating cause 2022 is in 4 months (´。＿。｀)

Specific contests are also cool, but fairly common, too. Maybe there's a way to spice things up a bit? (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

• 1.Groups will be made with the same number of people in both groups. The groups will choose a leader each who will speak on behalf of the whole group. Now, the groups will be giving each other a protagonist, antagonist, setting, basic plotline, a twist in the story, characteristics and any other stuff they want.
  
  Remember that these can be as absurd as they wish or as unrelated as they wish to mess with the other groups' head!
  
  Now, they'll be given 2 weeks minimum each to create a short story {which can be animated} and then the judges can choose the winner! The losers will have a punishment.
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  2. This can be named as the CHAINSTORY. This is where a person starts one line of the story and the next adds up to the story! This can go on as long as we wish until the story reaches a certain word limit or any other limit. The same person can't continue for more than five times.
  For example:
  
  ~Person1: “Help me Athena, I don't want to lead a life with this guilt building in me” said Hath, eyes filled with tears, pleading her.
  
  ~Person2: “You know I can't do that Hath..I might get banished for life for doing something like this…or worse..I cant live with it…” Athena sobbed, bursting out the feelings of compassion she had hidden for long.
  
  ~Person3: (acting up like the narrator): No one knew what happened to Hath from that day..no one knew where he had gone,nor how he was; Athena was the last person he had talked to..
  
  Person4: This was believed that Hath had perished, but it all changed one day when a young boy saw Hath hidden in the shadows of the woods….

Oh, and we don't talk about 2022 here.

…Yet

JollofRice123 wrote:

wE eXiSt OuTsIdE oF iT tOo!

JollofRice123 wrote:

A writing contest that requires that you do some research about a random country and write a story with that place as a setting would be interesting though. It would help you to improve your writing generally, get a taste for the amount of research that goes into writing even short stories and you'll get to learn about other countries and their cultures. Simultaneously! (✯ᴗ✯)

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

Groups will be made with the same number of people in both groups. The groups will choose a leader each who will speak on behalf of the whole group. Now, the groups will be giving each other a protagonist, antagonist, setting, basic plotline, a twist in the story, characteristics and any other stuff they want.

Remember that these can be as absurd as they wish or as unrelated as they wish to mess with the other groups' head!

Now, they'll be given 2 weeks minimum each to create a short story {which can be animated} and then the judges can choose the winner! The losers will have a punishment.

JollofRice123 wrote:

Role Rotations: September 2021 + August Evaluations

Since the current roles were set up halfway through August, they'll remain the same in September and rotate properly in October. This is to ensure that a decent amount of time is spent in each role before changing into a new one. As a side note, would you guys prefer rotations to be every month or every two months?

As a reminder, here are the current roles:
• QOTD: @JollofRice123
• WWD: @QuirkyPROgrammer_101
• AOTW: @boom2ratz and @tek_ilovemarvel
• Events: @LadyOfBooks and @pinkiepiepony
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Activity Check! You can skip this section ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

Activity Check Key:
• * Very Active
• * Active
• * Somewhat Active
• * Inactive

• @QuirkyPROgrammer_101*
• @boom2ratz*
• @tek_ilovemarvel*
• @LadyOfBooks*
• @pinkiepiepony*

This is kinda like a school report card thing. Any shade of green means you're doing a good job! Orange means you're making considerable contributions, but could be more active, and red means (entirely) inactive.

The assigned activity level is based on how much you contribute on this forum as a manager, in addition to how active you are in the studio itself (e.g. answering QOTDs, doing WWDs etc.) For the most part, though, it's basically just a progress tracker to see who has or hasn't been active over a certain period of time (usually every month or so).
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Evaluation Card:
Overall Manager Activity (on Forum): *
Overall Manager Activity (in Studio): *
Attention to Roles: *
Contribution to discussions: *
In-Studio Activity Interaction: *
Teamwork and Communication: *

Final ‘Grade’: *
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Don't be fooled; I also have some work to do to get our gRaDeS up XD I just thought the evaluation thing would be fun~ Anyway, good job this month, everyone! By the way, this rotation + evaluation post thingy will probably come around on the second to last weekend of every month or so. Keep an eye out! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
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On another note, how have you been, people? Up to anything interesting recently? Here's an emoticon to wish you all good health and happiness for the remainder of this month and the start of September! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

JollofRice123 wrote:

As a side note, would you guys prefer rotations to be every month or every two months?
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Don't be fooled; I also have some work to do to get our gRaDeS up XD I just thought the evaluation thing would be fun~ Anyway, good job this month, everyone! By the way, this rotation + evaluation post thingy will probably come around on the second to last weekend of every month or so. Keep an eye out! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
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On another note, how have you been, people? Up to anything interesting recently? Here's an emoticon to wish you all good health and happiness for the remainder of this month and the start of September! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

1. Groups will be made with the same number of people in both groups. The groups will choose a leader each who will speak on behalf of the whole group. Now, the groups will be giving each other a protagonist, antagonist, setting, basic plotline, a twist in the story, characteristics and any other stuff they want.

Remember that these can be as absurd as they wish or as unrelated as they wish to mess with the other groups' head!

Now, they'll be given 2 weeks minimum each to create a short story {which can be animated} and then the judges can choose the winner! The losers will have a punishment.
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2. This can be named as the CHAINSTORY. This is where a person starts one line of the story and the next adds up to the story! This can go on as long as we wish until the story reaches a certain word limit or any other limit. The same person can't continue for more than five times.

LadyOfBooks wrote:

I personally think every two months because somethings like events, may need two months to get started and if we switch halfway through then it might be a bit confusing.

LadyOfBooks wrote:

And as for camp details/ideas, maybe it could be based on writing outside of your comfort zone? For example, one activity could be based around genres and they have to write in a genre that they're not used to?

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

JollofRice123 wrote:

Specific contests are also cool, but fairly common, too. Maybe there's a way to spice things up a bit? (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧

I have some competition ideas!

• 1.Groups will be made with the same number of people in both groups. The groups will choose a leader each who will speak on behalf of the whole group. Now, the groups will be giving each other a protagonist, antagonist, setting, basic plotline, a twist in the story, characteristics and any other stuff they want.
  
  Remember that these can be as absurd as they wish or as unrelated as they wish to mess with the other groups' head!
  
  Now, they'll be given 2 weeks minimum each to create a short story {which can be animated} and then the judges can choose the winner! The losers will have a punishment.
  ———————————————————————————————————————–

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

• 2. This can be named as the CHAINSTORY. This is where a person starts one line of the story and the next adds up to the story! This can go on as long as we wish until the story reaches a certain word limit or any other limit. The same person can't continue for more than five times.
  For example:
  
  ~Person1: “Help me Athena, I don't want to lead a life with this guilt building in me” said Hath, eyes filled with tears, pleading her.
  
  ~Person2: “You know I can't do that Hath..I might get banished for life for doing something like this…or worse..I cant live with it…” Athena sobbed, bursting out the feelings of compassion she had hidden for long.
  
  ~Person3: (acting up like the narrator): No one knew what happened to Hath from that day..no one knew where he had gone,nor how he was; Athena was the last person he had talked to..
  
  Person4: This was believed that Hath had perished, but it all changed one day when a young boy saw Hath hidden in the shadows of the woods….

And it can continue….



-QP101

What do you think the punishments could be? Maybe coming up with future QOTDs and stuff like that? Or a ridiculous writing dare etc? OωO

I like this idea, too! But five times seems a bit too generous, if you ask me (◠`ᴥ´◕ʋ) In addition to the rules that have already been established, what do you think about the same person being unable to go again until a certain number of people (which would depend on how big the groups are) have contributed?

If we wanted to be super evil, a rota would be fantastic — but that may be crossing the line of extremity, especially considering sudden inactivity, unexpected irl situation, bans and the like. The list really does go on XD

In any case, both your ideas are great! They would work well in a (mini)camp, or as individual group activities of sorts. Thanks for sharing! ｡◕‿◕｡

That's very creative! :-P Seems fun, this is a very cool idea :-D

LadyOfBooks wrote:

Another thing, maybe we could include ‘coins’ that you win which can be used at a shop where you can buy advantages for your team and disadvantages for the other teams. (Based off the shop in Fiction Funfair since I thought that was really cool).

LadyOfBooks wrote:

I like the idea of the punishments but we have to make sure the punishments are still somewhat fun to do. Otherwise, people aren't really going to want to join if there's the threat of doing something boring.

The ridiculous writing dare sounds cool and maybe they have to complete it before they can start the next short story or next ‘challenge’ (if this is an ongoing thing).

Some other punishments could be a disadvantage in the next challenge (again, if this is an ongoing thing) or.. I just had an idea! Maybe the winners could choose a punishment for the losers as part of their prize?

But the thing with having ‘losers’ is people might be upset if they lose so we'd have to make sure it was really fair and still light-hearted.

Another thing, maybe we could include ‘coins’ that you win which can be used at a shop where you can buy advantages for your team and disadvantages for the other teams. (Based off the shop in Fiction Funfair since I thought that was really cool).

QuirkyPROgrammer_101 wrote:

LadyOfBooks wrote:

Another thing, maybe we could include ‘coins’ that you win which can be used at a shop where you can buy advantages for your team and disadvantages for the other teams. (Based off the shop in Fiction Funfair since I thought that was really cool).

Ooh ooh yes! And they can have badges given regarding higher the activities