yep, it’s official — creating worlds writing camp will be returning for its third year!
for anyone who doesn’t know, creating worlds writing camp (or cwwc) is a month-long writing challenge. i’ve been hosting it yearly since 2015. it’s quite popular among my readers, so i decided to bring it back this year.
cwwc 2017 will take place this august. every few days (either three or four, i haven’t quite decided yet), i’ll post three writing prompts, and all you have to do is write a short story/poem/story that continues throughout the challenge/whatever inspired by them, and give me the link before the time limit is up. (if you want to participate, but don’t have a blog, you can email your writing to me.) you’ll get one point per prompt, plus some points for submitting your story on time, and whichever team has the most points at the end of the month wins.
this is just an announcement post, so i’ll write up all the rules and open sign-ups closer to august.
the main purpose of this post is to decide on what the teams will be. in the past, the teams have always been team narnia, team half-blood, team dragon, and team keeper. i wanted to mix it up a little this year, come up with some new team names. there might even be more teams this year, depending on how many people sign up. anyway, i made a poll of name ideas. vote for your favorites, please, it would help me a lot. all the teams are going to be named after book series, and if you think of one that should be on the poll, you can let me know in the “other” section.
there’s another thing i need your help with. should you have three days to turn in your story, or four? (the day i post the prompts for the challenge would count as part of the time limit.) here’s another poll for you to vote on:
thank you for helping me out! i’ll start working on all the cwwc-related stuff before august, so hopefully it will be less stressful for me than in previous years. :)
are you excited for cwwc? do you plan on participating?
xo
loren
let's be lost 
Am I allowed to make a story out of every single writing prompt?
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well, most people use all the prompts in one story. i suppose you could do that, too, though i think it would be more work than writing one story.
xo loren
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I meant one long story at the end using every prompt
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oh. no, you’re supposed to try and write one story per challenge.
xo loren
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Ooh, yay! CWWC is such a neat contest, but I’m still deciding whether I want to do it since I’m “supervising” WordCrafters too. ;) I hope you get tons of participants!
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thanks. :) i hope wordcrafters goes smoothly.
xo loren
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Thank you! It’s going pretty well so far, thankfully. Same to you for CWWC!
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I would like to participate! I will be gone for a few weeks though, coming back on August 3rd. would this be an issue?
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great! you might not be able to turn in the first story on time, but you should still be able to participate.
xo loren
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I’m planning on participating! This will be my first time :) Sounds so much fun!!
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OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH LOREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been looking and looking forever on my reader to find if there were any writing contests coming up because I DESPERATELY NEED ONE SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MY DEAR FRIEND!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAY!!!!! I”M ENTERING IF THAT”S OKAY! I’m SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH LOREN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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