The Monthly Writing Prompts- Chat thread, discussion and questions

[Kris]

Decided to give a place to speak up your mind, tell people your opinions on their writings and general discussion on this event.

[Kris]

m139 is the first to reach the final badge and is right now the leader of the board! Congratulation!

[Omac]

Are we getting prompts this month? I ask because of RPApril?

[Kris]

Yup, Nara will put them up today

[Omac]

Oh, okay! I'm excited! I get to work on my Crystal Cavern story. I know at some point I'll get a pet Dragon and a gun sort of weapon that shoots water and fire AT THE SAME TIME. Plus, I'm curious as to who the first boss will be. My story takes place in a video game and the person who trapped my character in it is also someone from either my real life OR RPA. Someone I know who has motive to trap me in a game... I'm excited to find out who it'll be!

I was going to use an old prompt, but I couldn't choose which one to use, so I'm excited to be getting a new prompt today.

[Kris]

Just a reminder that only the 3 active threads of the same month bring you closed in the badge ranks. Any further addition will be counted on the second chart.

Also, to get the badge, each submitted entry must be 1000 words!

I've pinned those 3 to prevent confusion.

[m139]

thank you

[Kris]

So I've been thinking... Do we want to try and reduce the words count to enable badges (Something lower than 1000)? Yea? Nay?

Anyone has suggestions to make this monthly friendly writing event more eye catching?

[m139]

That might work... or maybe you might consider adding another badge all together. Get them started, and see what happens. Or perhaps feature one of the works in the Tribune or something? Or maybe make best writing prompt entry a thing for awards not this year but next?

I don't really know. For research I can tell you that I simply do this section because I like seeing my name on a leader board and I see this as a good way to practice writing and try new techniques. Perhaps we could have a monthly challenge checklist with a bunch of random things to incorporate into the themed writing? I really don't know.

[Kris]

Can you give me more examples? ideas? I really like your direction on it!