Worderlands

Worderlands will be holding its next week-long challenge starting on 22 June - and this time, things will be a little different.

Instead of aiming for a word goal or working on a specific project, the challenge will be to write a 3-sentence story every day based on a provided prompt.

This will hopefully be a good way to spark some inspiration, get everyone focussing on the construction of every sentence, the way words work together, the impact that you can have using only a few words. So, when you go back to writing your other project/s, hopefully it will be with a refreshed perspective and renewed creativity to draw from.

Of course, if you like what the stories you write bring out, you'll be welcome (and very much encouraged) to continue the stories in a longer form - or add them into another WIP if they fit.

Look out for the first prompt on 22 June! :)

Thanks to everyone who participated in our first 700 to 7k challenge! I hope you got something great out of it, whether you wrote more words or just enjoyed the posts and questions. :)

♦ How did you go with everything?

♦ Do you have any feedback on the challenge?

♦ What did you think of the daily posts - the questions and tasks? Too much, too little, just right?

I'd love to know what you think. Like with the feedback from the November 2024 challenge, feedback may be incorporated into future challenges.

On that note, I'm already thinking about what might be next for Worderlands...

Don't worry - there's no event to rush to get ready for just yet. But there might be another 700 to 7k (or some similar variation) in a few months. I'm also playing with a few other ideas, but I'll leave that for another post another time.

Happy writing!

Welcome to day 6 of 700 to 7k. XD

♦ What's something that you've done to take care of yourself during this challenge?

♦ What inspires the chaos and conflict (the plot) in your novels?

♦ Share a moment of action or with high stakes from your story

Day 4 is here already! That happened fast.

♦ How are you feeling about the challenge and/or your goals so far?

♦ What’s your approach to world building or writing settings?

♦ Share some descriptions of the world your project is set in (whether direct from your story or just describing it to share here)

Here are the questions/prompts for day 2!

♦ How's your writing going so far for the challenge?

♦ What inspires your work?

♦ Share some of your work with some beautiful prose

Our next challenge - 700 to 7k (words) - will be starting very, very soon. Are you ready?

Hi all!

How are you? How's your writing going?

I'm thinking we do a week-long challenge in March (likely in the second half), where we all aim for either 700 words (100 words a day) or 7,000 words (1,000 words a day).

A bonus side challenge: writing a complete short story, start to finish, in that same timeframe.

Would anyone be interested in this? :)

Hi all. How'd you find the daily(ish) check-ins in November? 

And what would you like to see at this community moving forward?

I've had a few life obstacles that have been keeping me busy in the background (and even away from here for a few days), but I hope to spend more time building things up in the coming months. It just may not be in the form of a daily check in, unless this is something people would find useful?

Getting closer to the end... of the month.

How's your story going? Are you nearing the end of it too?