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October 30, 2017 2:25 PM
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Nanowrimo Challenges by DH Skies with Pierces, Jasmine, Zev & Jozua, Kyte, Ruby Brockert, Tasha DuBois, Joe Umland
Sonora Resolutions by DH Skies with Headmaster Brockert, Nathan, et al
Head Student Ballot is up! (nm) by Mortimer Brockert
Bonfire is up! (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
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October 30, 2017 2:41 PM
Advertising target! Let's get 15 in over midterm! by DH Skies
As we hit midterm, that means advertising season is upon us once again. Advertising has never been mandatory at Sonora, and we'd like to keep it that way, whilst making sure everyone takes part in getting the word out about the site. So, this year, we're trying collective group targets and other ideas, to break advertising down into smaller, manageable chunks.The first goal is to get 15 adverts done, as a group, by the end of Midterm.
There are 3 ways to advertise that we have known to work in the past:
1) Personal recommendations.
Have a friend who you think would fit in well? Recommend the site to them directly!
2) Social media posts
There are probably a bunch of secret Potter nerds in your friendship group. Post to your social media accounts about the site.
3) Review stories on fanfiction.net
Please remember to add actual comments about the story so your review doesn't just seem like spam. It helps to have an account so that authors can message you. You will have to put spaces between the parts of the address, as they are otherwise automatically filtered out by fanfiction.net (see sample text below).
'I'm from a creative writing RPG which involves all original characters and I feel you'd fit in well. Our applications are currently open or you can play on our 'sandbox' page to get a feel for it. It's sonora. terragenaonline. net (without the space) and I hope you'll check us out. Please message me if you have any questions.'
If anyone has any other ideas on places or ways for us to advertise, please add your comments here! Also, don't forget to add your reviews to the counter so we can keep track of our progress towards our targets. The counter cannot do maths, so you will need to enter a total for it, e.g. if it says '2' and you do 3 more reviews, you should enter '5'
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October 31, 2017 6:35 AM
Nanowrimo Challenges by DH Skies
Nano Challenges!This year, the return to Sonora (almost) coincides with the start of November, which is Nanowrimo time. Rather than lose our authors to external projects, for the last few years we’ve been setting Nano challenges.
We have a couple of challenges that will run throughout the month. And, as the weeks go on, we’ll add new ones.
Our month long challenges are:
November’s longest thread: the thread that has the most posts will receive 15 house points for each participant. The only rules are that all posts must be made during November (i.e. no adding to old threads) and meet the site requirement of 200 words per post.
5 Minutes Every Day:
We often hear ‘I don’t have time for writing,’ and so one year when I was very busy during November, I set myself the challenge of writing for 5 minutes every day. Even though it didn’t sound like much, it was amazing what I achieved during that time. It did not always result in a completed post, and so this is not a challenge that we will be monitoring, but can be a challenge that you set yourself.
Long time, no see:
This challenge is especially to encourage back characters who have been quiet. If you have a character who wasn’t posted during the first part of the term, you can gain 5 house points by posting them anywhere during November.
We will also be setting additional challenges as the month goes on, and we want these to work whether you’ve got one character or a dozen. Therefore, where necessary, challenges will offer two options. Part a is aimed at those with 5 or more characters, whilst part b is open to everyone (i.e. if you only have one character, you can only claim credit for part b, but if you have 6 characters, you can choose which you complete for the points).
Returning Feast challenge:
The Returning Feast will be posted on November 3rd. Either… a) post ALL your characters at the returning feast or b) complete an exchange of at least 6 posts.
Whilst we try to read all posts, it is hard for staff to keep tabs on everything. Therefore, if you complete any challenges, please post an announcement and link below this post.
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November 04, 2017 6:19 AM
Whoooo! by DH Skies
We did it! Ok, so the feast went up a bit before the last few went in, but I'm willing to count 'Midnight on Friday' as the end of Midterm.THANK YOU! At the start of the week I was planning to leave some encouraging speech in chatzy about how I had a crazy week, and hoped you'd all pull together and help us get to the target, but I never got round to it. And still, when I resurfaced last night, the counter had ploughed on towards its target. Well done guys.
I really want people to be able to focus on and enjoy nano, so I'm not going to push advertising as much in November. However, I will say it's like writing... just five minutes a day can make a world of difference, so if we can keep that counter steadily creeping up in our spare time, that would be wonderful. I'd be delighted if it doubled over the next four weeks.
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Pierces, Jasmine, Zev & Jozua
November 08, 2017 4:00 PM
All Students to Returning Feast Challenge DONE! (nm) by Pierces, Jasmine, Zev & Jozua
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November 10, 2017 2:07 PM
Further challenges... by DH Skies
All the existing challenges remain open, but to give everyone some more options, especially as we get back into classes...- Post two of your characters together OR post a flashback to them at home, including interacting with another person
- Between now and the end of November, post 2000 words in class for a single character. This can be split across multiple posts, in multiple classes but must be for one character, so that the challenge is not miles easier for those with multiple characters. This might sound like a lot, but is based on counting up some character contributions during the first half of term.
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Kyte
November 15, 2017 6:05 PM
6 post exchange completed with Isaac (nm) by Kyte
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My Three Pierces
November 21, 2017 3:44 PM
We’re having a party/fight/party in MARS (nm) by My Three Pierces
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Kir and Georgia
November 29, 2017 4:26 AM
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Jozua Sparks
November 29, 2017 10:37 AM
2249 words posted in classes! (nm) by Jozua Sparks
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Ruby Brockert
November 29, 2017 6:43 PM
Six post exchange challenge done (nm) by Ruby Brockert
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Jasmine Delachene
November 30, 2017 4:37 PM
And 2045 for me! (nm) by Jasmine Delachene
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Lily Spencer
November 30, 2017 4:54 PM
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Tasha DuBois
November 30, 2017 7:34 PM
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Tatiana Vorontsova
November 30, 2017 9:32 PM
Joe Umland
November 30, 2017 9:36 PM
Exactly six posts make up my OF thread with Jozua. (nm) by Joe Umland
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November 30, 2017 10:32 PM
Joe Umland and Tatiana Vorontsova
November 30, 2017 11:03 PM
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December 01, 2017 4:44 AM
DH Skies
December 01, 2017 4:47 AM
Nano stats and achievements by DH Skies
Did you attempt the '5 minutes a day' or keep track of your word count?Even though there aren't specific points attached to these, feel free to share these, or any other nano achievements you're proud of below.
I wrote on 28/30 days and my best streak was 19 days. I wrote a total of 14,314 words in November, and posted all my characters at least once.
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Jozua, et al
December 01, 2017 9:09 AM
Stats and achievements by Jozua, et al
My longest write-everyday streak was 13 days, but I think I only missed 3 or four throughout the month.I left my paper with my stats on it at work, so I don’t remember exact tallies but it went something like this:
Everybody: 17404 words (not counting Nathan’s co-write)
Jozua ~4500 words in 12 posts; class challenge complete; 6 post thread at RF challenge
Jasmine ~3800 words in 12 posts; class challenge complete; longest thread
Zevalyn ~1600 words in 4 posts
Daniel ~1600 words in 3 posts (2 words less than Zev)
Ben ~1500 words in 5 posts; group post challenge
Winston ~1200 words in 4 posts; group post challenge
Ginger ~1100 words in 4 posts; group post challenge
Clark ~800 words in 2 post
Nathan ~600 words in one post (plus more that weren’t counted in an currently unpublished cowrite)
All students posted at RF; all current Sonora characters posted at least once, at least one part of each challenge fulfilled.
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December 28, 2017 4:28 PM
Sonora Resolutions by DH Skies
January 1st is rapidly approaching, and many of us will be making New Year's Resolutions. So, why not have something Sonora-related amongst them?These will vary from person to person, as we all have different amounts of characters, time and energy, but anything that ups your participation or development of your characters is a worthy goal. It could be an 'in character' resolution, e.g. to have your character post in clubs or make a friend, or it could be something you want to do as an author, like making specific time in your schedule for writing, or writing for X amount of time every day/week/whatever.
We've got a couple of days to ponder and discuss, but let us know if you make a writing resolution!
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Headmaster Brockert
December 28, 2017 4:42 PM
What about... by Headmaster Brockert
Resolutions about advertising! Drumming up new membership is a very worthy goal
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Mortimer Brockert
December 30, 2017 5:13 PM
Head Student Ballot is up! (nm) by Mortimer Brockert
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December 30, 2017 5:13 PM
Bonfire is up! (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
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Nathan, et al
January 01, 2018 3:24 PM
Resolving by Nathan, et al
I intend to post every student character at least once every two weeks.
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January 01, 2018 4:55 PM
Resolutions by DH Skies et al
Nice! Solid, clear concise resolution.Mine's a bit more meandering...
I will do one Sonora related activity (read a post/write 100 words/do an admin task) before I go on Facebook on any given day.
This doesn't over commit me on days where I'm already really busy, but I hope to use it to make myself more aware and mindful of how much time I'm wasting on non-constructive Internetting and reduce that.
I did already fail this resolution this morning, as I forgot about it, but i will keep trying!
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January 18, 2018 5:19 PM
Faceclaims by DH Skies
I am updating the list as per the general consensus, which was that after characters have been graduated for a full cycle, their claims can be reused.Authors are being asked to pick a new face for preference, and to specifically ask if they want to reuse. Any authors who are still at the site will be asked before claims are reused. Authors may also request that their claims are not released (either all claims or specific characters) and they will be marked as unavailable.
If you would like any of your claims reserved, please contact the address attached, or comment below. The class who graduated in SA15 and above would be open for reuse.
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