Who would be interested in this?

[Blaze1616 he/him]

We've already got smarthphones, so I doubt attaining the technology for what I'm about to propose would be difficult at all.

 

All of our personal computer/phone/thingamabobs have an app that is the Earth calendar, and religious holidays are tracked that way. Not difficult at all. Just sync your calendar up to the desired religions and set it so your notifications allow that app to initiate, and you're all done.

 

Though, on a darker note, space travel will no doubt lead to other discoveries that cause Earth's current religions to drastically alter/die out, and as a result essentially new religions would probably crop up, leading to new, space time holidays (because in a multi-planet society using a base, constant time scale is best). 

[Delightful]

That could be interesting. What kind of weather do you have in Australia around Christmas time? I for one would be immensely fascinating by reading a story about what people on the other side of the world associate with the holiday season.

I would really love to read something like this.

It's mainly hot and humid here... Thanks for the encouragement . I'll see what I can do.

[Queen Elsa Steelheart she/her]

(Mainly posting here to be accountable so I'll actually write)

I want to try a Hanukkah story, not too sure where to go with it. Also it's strange for me in Australia because it's approaching summer, and it never snows, so the whole 'winter holiday time' thing is kinda lost on me.

Now can I turn that into a story......?

 

Instead of making snowmen here in the holiday season, in Australia we get 42º days.....It's boiling. 

Edited December 9, 2014 by Queen Elsa Steelheart

[Delightful]

Ok, I'm making progress! I have 500 words of an awkward teenager at a Hannukah fair, desperately looking for a kid she's been negligently babysitting and now can't find among the crowds, while simultaneously hoping to avoid and run into the older guy she has a secret crush on. Trying to work out what'll raise the tension and make a cool ending, some kind of non-melodramatic external conflict maybe.....

 

Maybe the kid's run off back in time, not sure if that would overinflate my word count.

Or just leave it as a child scavenger hunt.....

 

(I feel obligated to add that this is not autiobiographical,  )

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Haha! Finally got a chance to start! Up to 400 words now. 

[Edgedancer he/him]

Haha! Finally got a chance to start! Up to 400 words now. 

Awesome. I bet your characters are feeling cozy in their nice warm hotel and are not currently standing in a frozen wasteland, freezing of their chulls.   That´s after 714 words, I´ll probably start writing in earnest thursday.

[Quiver he/him]

Well, I have to drop out of this month. I won't have computer or internet access after this week, at least not until the new year comes in.

(I mean, I could just write on paper I suppose and transpose it over, but still...)

 

Anyway; I'll start a topic for everyone to submit stuff to before I leave, and I'm working on getting someone for the January writing prompt. Sorry about that though; I look forward to seeing what you guys come up with though!

[Kasimir he/him]

Hmmm. I think I'll have to drop out, at least for this month. One or two other clashing commitments.

[Kobold King he/him]

So... I've still got nothing. Who's still in and who's gotten sizable pieces written?

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

I have about 1000 words so far.

[Seonid he/him]

I'm still in, but I don't have anything yet. I'll probably do an exploratory writing exercise set in the Edassa RP, about a group of Tribunal worshippers celebrating their winter festival in secret while hiding from the Inquisition.

[Delightful]

I don't have much (still on about 500 words) but I'm still in. Just currently mastering the art of procrastination.....

[Edgedancer he/him]

I have about as much as twi but still fear that I have biten of a bit to much scope wise for the time frame.

[Delightful]

Okay, I'm actually making some progress! 700 words and writing!

 

When do we want this done by exactly? End of the month?

[Quiver he/him]

The plan was for the end of the month but...

 

Well, maybe it was  bad idea for this to start in the holiday season. Regardless of whether you celebrate anything or not, this time of year tends to be fairly hectic, between family get togethers, new years, and so forth.

So... I'm wondering if we should either extend the deadline to the end of January, or just scrap it and start with the January prompt, giving us all about a week or so extra time to plan/get started/whatever. Thoughts?

[Edgedancer he/him]

The plan was for the end of the month but...

 

Well, maybe it was  bad idea for this to start in the holiday season. Regardless of whether you celebrate anything or not, this time of year tends to be fairly hectic, between family get togethers, new years, and so forth.

So... I'm wondering if we should either extend the deadline to the end of January, or just scrap it and start with the January prompt, giving us all about a week or so extra time to plan/get started/whatever. Thoughts?

I like this idea, at this pace I probably won´t finish till the end of the month but I also don´t want to drop what I have at this point, so the end of January sounds wonderful to me. I might post what I currently have (unedited) at the end of December, just because.

[Delightful]

Well I'm finding it super useful to have a deadline, so I'd like to still have mine 'due' by the end of the month.

 

Why don't we have a separate January prompt, and you can do either prompt or both by then, and those who are done by then can post at the end of Dec with no pressure to anyone else? Or is that too complicated?

Edited December 23, 2014 by Delightful

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

Well I'm finding it super useful to have a deadline, so I'd like to still have mine 'due' by the end of the month.

 

Why don't we have a separate January prompt, and you can do either prompt or both by then, and those who are done by then can post at the end of Dec with no pressure to anyone else? Or is that too complicated?

 

I think this is a good way to do it. 

 

I'm almost done with this prompt; the deadline did help. (And it helped generate a few unrelated ideas for the world itself. Really unrelated, but I'm going to use them, so I'm not going to wonder too much what they had to do with the prompt itself. ) 

[Delightful]

So I'm having heaps of fun writing the setting, meanwhile my plot is pretty weak and I'm not sure if it's actually going to go anywhere. How's everyone else doing?

[Edgedancer he/him]

So I'm having heaps of fun writing the setting, meanwhile my plot is pretty weak and I'm not sure if it's actually going to go anywhere. How's everyone else doing?

I also had good fun with the wordbuilding, which was a bit like adding the southern continent to Scardrial. Plot wise, I have one, am 2000 words into it and now where I´m going. It´s just still ways away, unless I start abridging really hard alla "and then they did X."

[TwiLyghtSansSparkles she/her]

My scene is finished, and now I know how to propel the rest of my story forward. Thank you, Quiver, for the prompt, and thank you to TvTropes for the Dragon trope.

[Seonid he/him]

So, are we going to have a separate thread to post our finished scenes/short stories/chapters/assorted blocks of writing?

[Delightful]

Last I checked, Quiver was going to make a thread for that.

 

Should we leave say 24 hours for people to post before we all comment? Or....I don't know how these things usually work.

 

And looks like I might juuuust be finished in the next 24 hours . 

[Quiver he/him]

Ask and you shall receive.

 

I'm really glad to hear that some people got this month finished though, even if I wasn't one of them I'm looking forward to whatever you guys put together.

 

And, on a slightly different note, I've talked to someone about a prompt for January; after they post it/announce it/whatever, I'll edit it into the first post in this thread (and maybe to the December thread) just for convenience.

Edited December 30, 2014 by Quiver

[Delightful]

And, on a slightly different note, I've talked to someone about a prompt for January; after they post it/announce it/whatever, I'll edit it into the first post in this thread (and maybe to the December thread) just for convenience.

This sounds like a good idea to me, for easy reference and so one day in the future we can look back fondly at all our writing prompts sitting there........

if I'm acting weirder than normal it's because I should really be asleep right now.