I’m sure you guys are all dying to know who won CWWC 2016, but you’re just going to have to wait a second while I tally up the points.
I got entries from . . .
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- Megan (A Barefoot Gal)
- Anika (Anika’s Avenue)
- Bella (Many Marigolds)
- Rebekah (American Girl Guide)
- AnonymousA (Happy Days With Anonymous A.)
- Misty (Creative World of Writing)
- CutePolarBear
Points: 176
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- Jaclynn (Little Miss Fluffet)
- Allison (A Farm Girl’s Life)
- Heather (The Girl of Many Fictional Names)
- Maddie (Maple Grove)
- Emma (Drawn to Writing)
- Hallie (Hallie Sadler)
- Lily (Daydreaming and Writing)
Points: 138
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- Rachael (The Camera Lens)
- Clara (Clara’s Craft Corner)
- Nicole (The Secret Life of an Irish Dancer)
- Josie (Josie on the Go)
- Zielle (My Homeschool Notebook)
- Grace (The Girl Upstairs)
- Geeky_Girl (The Dolls of Texas)
- K.A. (Cuddly Critters Blog)
Points: 185
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- Samantha (Redhead With a Book)
- Danielle (Autumn Songs)
- Suzy (Craftz‘n’Craziness)
- Indigo (The Ambivert Writer)
- Bella (Book Sweet)
- Anna (Daydreaming Dolls)
- Rayleigh Ann (Accelerate the Jesus Movement)
Points: 161
Alright. The moment you’ve all been waiting for.
Who won CWWC 2016?
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Team Dragons!
You earned a total of 577 points.
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Team Half-Blood!
You earned a total of 608 points.
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Second place goes to . . .
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Team Narnia!
You earned a total of 651 points!
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First place goes to . . .
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Team Keepers!
You earned 660 points!
They secured the title for the second year in the row! There must be some sort of elf magic cast around their team. ;)
Everyone, feel free to put your team’s image on your blog’s sidebar. That’s why I made them, after all!
I want to say thank you to everyone who participated this year. It makes me really happy that you all like CWWC so much. I’ll host it again — next summer, definitely, maybe sooner. There will be a few differences (what changes would you like to see?), but it will still be the same writing camp that you guys love. :)
OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!! AWESOME JOB, EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!
Team Half-Blood, YOU’RE AWESOME!!!!! You guys persevered to the end!!!!!!
WOOHOO, KEEPERS!!!!!!!
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Good Job Keepers! . I tried my best and had fun, and that’s what matters. It would have been nice to win though. I don’t have to put the image on my blog, right?
-Maddie
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I’m glad you had fun. :)
No, of course not — it’s just there if you want to.
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You still did great though! :D Being a good sport, doing your best, and having fun IS best! You did amazing! HIGH FIVE! :D XD xD :) Good job! :)
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KEEPERS YAY!! :D We did amazing and all the other teams did awesome too! Yes Loren the elven magic surrounded us as we wove our path to victory!! :) Congrads to all the other teams!! :D Everyone did awesome!! GO KEEPERS!! :D *party dance* woo!! ;)
I can’t wait for next year… you should do a mini writing camp in the fall Loren!
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Congratulations, Keepers! Even though we Narnians didn’t win… :P Everyone did a great job! Loren, this was really fun. Thank you for hosting it! :)
I would definitely like to participate again. Some changes I would like to see is a longer deadline and maybe the total score of all the teams each challenge.
CutePolarBear
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WOO!!! *cheers* YAY FOR TEAM KEEPERS!!! I’m THRILLED to get to participate with such awesome teammates! :D
All the teams have done an amazing job…I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s stories! Great job, guys!
Loren, thank you SO MUCH for hosting CWWC! I’m THRILLED to get to participate this time!
~Grace <3
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Ah! CONGRATS, EVERYONE! All the teams did a SPECTACULAR job…!
As for Keepers….you guys better watch out next year…we Narnians were scary close at y’all’s heels. :P
Thank you once again, Loren, for hosting this. This challenge has encouraged so many bloggers to start writing. Greatly looking forward to next time!
*gives everyone one more round of very intense applause*
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Wow.
That was all really close.
GREAT JOB HALF-BLOOD
We may not have gotten 2nd, but we were only 50 points behind! ;)
And congrats to Keepers! You guys did great. :)
OREOS FOR EVERYONE
*TOSSES ALL THE OREOS TO ALL THE TEAMS*
~ Suzy
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It was! Great job, everyone! :D
YAY FOR OREOS!!! XD
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Yes!
OREOSSSS.
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OREOS!?!?!?! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! :D :D :D :) You’re right, all the teams did great! :) And Half-blood! ;)
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“hjgyugfuyrghjgyugfg”:My acceptance speech while I stuff all the oreos down my mouth. *TOSSES MORE OREOS AROUND LIKE CONFETTI*
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*stares at raining oreos in awe*
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:p
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NOOOOOO!!! We lost by 9 points. :'( GAH! Oh well. :/ Congrats, Keepers! You all did amazing! :D And Narnians, you did too! And Half Bloods and Dragons! :D YAY! CWWC is sooo much fun. :)
♥Megan
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You did great too, Megan! Great job! :) :D
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*deep breath*
YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES! WOO-HOO! I DID NOT STAY UP TILL MIDNIGHT FOR NOTHING! ELVES RULE! *celebratory dance* *loud cheering* :D :D :D
All the teams did great! This has been SO much fun!
Hmm.. changes… if you could give us more time to submit our stories, that would be great! It was really hard to get my stories in on time since I only had 2-3 days. :) I had tons of fun though! Thank you for hosting this challenge, Loren!! :)
-Clara <3
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WOO!!! I AM JUST SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!! :D :D :D
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I KNOOOOOWWWW!!! :D
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WOO! *dabs* XD
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:D They all did do great!! :D AND I had to sacrifice time too to get my story written! :P Phew! :P My rear end was hurting by the time I was done writing my 2,300 and some word long post! XD hehehehe!!! :D
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They did! Haha, yep! It was hard and fun. :P
-Clara <3
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:D YES!!! :) You too! ;) :D UH-HUH!!! :D
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*SNIFF* NOOOO, WE LOST. :( Oh well, good try, Team Dragons! GREAT job, everyone!
Loren, thanks so much for hosting this! You did a wonderful job!! I really like some of the stories that I wrote inspired by your prompts!
As for any suggestions for the next CWWC, I would appreciate if the next one was maybe a bit more centered around writing rather than points. Sometimes it seemed like getting all the prompts into your story, no matter if it made sense or not, was more important than taking time to really write a good story. Anyway, just a suggestion.
Also, I was wondering if you could maybe make the deadline longer? (Of course, maybe I would still procrastinate until 10:00 on the last day anyway. XD )
Thanks again, SO MUCH, Loren!! This is a wonderful writing challenge! ♥
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You guys did great! :) Good job being a good sport! :) You all did amazing! :) I agree with that! :D
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Yeah, I kind of agree with your suggestion. Using all the past prompts was good in one sense, because it created more of a challenge, but because you used all of the same prompts, (and three different ones) the different stories seemed the same and unoriginal.
CutePolarBear
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Good job NARNIA! We may not have won, but we were only 9 POINTS BEHIND!
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Yay team Narnia! Second place :)
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I can’t wait for next years challenge. I loved weaving a stories together out of the many wonderful prompts.
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Congratulations to all the teams! Even if we didn’t win, for me, it’s not about that- it’s about improving my writing skills and having fun writing my stories :)
Some changes I would like to see are:
1. No using previous prompts. I personally didn’t like that option (no offense meant here). I felt insanely pressured to use as many prompts as possible and started to not have as much fun because of that. I got tired of reusing the same prompts and I feel like having this option made people go insane and only think about using as many prompts as possible and winning instead of making good stories that make sense. It wasn’t the same quality and to me, this challenge should be about quality and improving your writing skills, not cramming in a bunch of prompts wherever possible just to win.
2. I’d also like a longer deadline. 3 days was so hard for me to do with how busy I’ve been lately. So maybe a week would be better XD
I’m sorry if I sounded rude, Loren. I didn’t mean to, I just wanted you to know how I felt about this :)
You really do a great job at running this whole thing – I honestly don’t know how you do it! Thank you for all the work you put into this challenge :)
~Jaclynn~
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No, that’s cool. I was already planning on changing both of the things you mentioned. ;) Sometimes I have a hard time saying no to my online friends, which is how we ended up with the previous prompts rule.
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Oh, I’m SO happy to hear that, Loren! Like really, SO happy!! Thank you so much for doing that :)
~Jaclynn~
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:D :) THose were great Ideas! :) I tried to use lots of prompts, and still make it make a lot of sense..It was more of a challenge for me! :D But either way it was great! :)
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Yes, I definitely agree with you. Literally every challenge so many people were saying we had to use as many prompts as possible. It put quite a loy of pressure on me.
I think 3 days would be totally fine if it was just those three prompts, but if we were doing the previous prompts thing again, I think a longer time would probably be better. ;)
~ Suzy
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It did for me, too! It felt like everyone lost the fun spirit and became obsessed with winning :/
~Jaclynn~
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Well, I’ll make sure to fix that for next time. ;)
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Thanks again, Loren! :)
~Jaclynn~
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Yay, we still made a significant comeback! Go half-bloods! Also I know this would be a lot for you, Loren, but could our stories be scored on quality rather than based on how many prompts we used?
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I’d like that option too Indigo :) Maybe have bonus points for extra vocabulary, smooth transitions between prompts, etc etc. I like having points per prompts but adding the bonus points for writing to help improve…idk…just a thought ;)
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I NEARLY SCREAMED!!! My sister was looking at me crazily as I ‘whooed’ out loud! XD :D XD XD XD xD xD :P Hahhahahaaaaaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEK!! Yaaaay!! :) :D Whoo hooo!!!! :D :P I’m so happy! :D Everyone else did GREAT too! GREAT JOB EVERYONE!! :) :D
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Congratulations everyone! :D Team Keepers really pulled to the front! Great job, guys! :)
-Emma-
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Yes!!! :D :) Great job, EVERYONE! :)
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Congrats, Team Keepers! You elves – I mean writers – sure are awesome at writing stories. :)
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Haha! :) Elves don’t do anything for us! ;) We’re just that amazing on our own! :P Just kidding, everyone did GREAT AND AMAZING!!! :D
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Good job Dragons!!! I agree with Jaclynn and Allison about the prompts. I like to create a new original amazing story for each challenge, and I felt pressured to use as many prompts as I could (which I only did for the last challenge . . . ). I DO think the deadline could be a little longer, maybe 5 days would be best . . . Thanks Loren for hosting this! It was fun! :D ;)
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YAAAAAAYYY!!!!! Great job everyone!!! Don’t feel bad, Team Dragons… Better luck next time!!! Great job, Team Half-Blood!!! Way to go!! Everyone’s stories were fantastic!!!! Thank you sooooooo much, Loren, for hosting this!!!! ~Bella <3
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YAY! KEEPERS!!
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