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October 20, 2018 2:04 AM
Other by DH Skies
Any other business that does not fit under the existing headings, including notifications of absences etc
Subthreads: Nanowrimo! by DH Skies with Nathan, et al, Nano Challengers
Aronos posting order by Tarquin Fox-Reynolds with Isaac Song, Evelyn Stones, Nathaniel Mordue
Fast and Furious by DH Skies with
YEARBOOK! by Professor Rory Taransay with Brockerts
Yearbook Surveys are HERE! by Professor Rory Taransay
Head Student ballots are up (nm) by Headmaster Brockert
Fair is up! (nm) by Headmaster Brockert with Ben Pierce, Zevalyn Ives, etc, DH Skies
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November 01, 2018 8:31 AM
Nanowrimo! by DH Skies
Dear All,November is upon us again, which means it's National Novel Writing Month, or Nanowrimo!
Nanowrimo challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel in the month of November.
Whilst some of you may be pursuing the official Nanowrimo challenge, we like to get into the spirit here at Sonora by having a month of goals and challenges for Sonora writing. Normally, these are prompt based challenges. We have also had individual authors set their own personal challenges for the month.
This year, we are going to set some benchmarks of word count goals, alongside personal challenges. These numbers have been based off previous Nanowrimo achievements.
We are offering four award levels:
Participant:
Set your own challenge. Declare it on the OOC board and let us know how you're getting on. Some examples of challenges might be:
- participate in Sonora prompt challenges
- post all my characters every week
- write for five minutes every day
The latter is one I've found super effective in the past when I "don't have time to write" - it's amazing what you can get done! Obviously, the time bands in the latter two goals can be adjusted to what would be a challenge (but a workable one!) for you.
Bronze medal: 6,000 words
This is equivalent to writing one minimum word count post per day. Given that most posts well exceed the word count, this is achievable with a few hefty class posts plus some light conversation!
Silver medal: 20,000 words
During my 'write every day' challenge last year, I managed 14,000 - and that was with me being 'busy.' If you're Sonora-ing hard, this goal is achievable and I'm pretty sure we've had authors hit this as a personal challenge in the past.
Gold medal: 50,000 words
The full nano quota! I don't know how achievable this is, but I am willing to find out.
Declare your goals below, and watch this space for writing prompts!
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Nathan, et al
November 01, 2018 9:07 AM
I’m in! by Nathan, et al
Word Count: Aiming for 15k, hoping for 20k.Also I plan to continue my 2018 resolution to post all of my student characters (that’s six of them) at least once every 2 week period.
And I’ll be doing the challenges of course.
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Nano Challengers
November 04, 2018 1:28 AM
Prompt set one by Nano Challengers
This year, the first challenge is to use one of the speech prompts below. Normally, with prompt challenges, this is the inspiration for a one shot fic. As Sonora is an ongoing story, you will be credited as passing the challenge if you use these within any post - i.e. if you work up a new post using one of these as a starting point, or if you work one of them into a current thread you are in.5 house points are on offer for each successfully used prompt. If the prompt it used by a character without a house affiliation, such as a staff or family member, the author can choose where they would like the points to go.
Many thanks to Mary Brooding's author for this list. If you would like to help set any of the Nano Challenges, get in touch with Selina via chatzy/facebook/gmail or the sonora chairs email address.
List of speech prompts:
"Where's the other one?"
“What counts as ‘stealing’ though?”
“Hungry is relative. I could eat a unicorn! Okay, that’s a bad example.”
“I bet you a broomstick Professor ___ and ____ are dating.”
“There’s nothing quite like the magic of a good milkshake.”
“No, I could definitely pass for 21.”
“Well my dad is… no, yeah, your dad sounds pretty cool.”
“What do you think would happen if I just casually followed ___ into their common room?”
“Okay, but how many other people know that?”
“I didn’t realize you spent so much time here.”
“I’ve never heard of a _____."
“What do you think would happen if I [used the professor in their own lesson, ex: had Mary try the potion, cast the spell on Tabitha, levitated Grayson, transfigured Selina’s buttons, etc.]”
(Note, if your character is not a fluent English speaker, you may appropriately mangle the grammar to make it plausible that it's them speaking. Otherwise, prompts should be used as they are).
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November 10, 2018 6:16 AM
Prompt set two by Nano Challengers
Our second set of prompts are all about dynamics, e.g. posting a specific interaction type. Thanks again to Mary Brooding for some of these ideas.5 house points for any post creating or attempting to start the following types of interaction:
Student-Teacher
Character-Animal
Character-Portrait
More than 3 year age gap
You can post with yourself, or set your character up in a thread aiming to receive a reply, e.g. have them pet a strange kitty and let someone claim it was their pet. Note, there are no portraits authored at present, so that interaction would be best done within your own post.
This challenge is stackable with the previous challenge, i.e. you can work the dialogue prompts into these dynamics and then claim for both challenges.
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November 17, 2018 6:38 AM
Challenge three by DH Skies
It's the return of the old favourite...FLASHBACK CHALLENGE.
Write a post either entirely set in the past or with a substantial flashback scene.
Bonus points for centering around the following:
- Accidental magic
- Being ill
- Owl post
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November 23, 2018 7:20 PM
Challenge Four by DH Skies
This weekend is Fast and Furious - contribute at least ten times!
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December 01, 2018 9:20 AM
Nano Goals/Stats by DH Skies
I participated in all challenges, am pretty sure I wrote every day and I exceeded the word count for silver.For anyone interested in my stats....
I wrote a grand total of....
(of which 8,893 happened at Fast and Furious. So, that idea that it might be bad for Nano... Well, I'd eat my words if I didn't need them all!)
Breaking down by character, we have....
Tarquin - 569 (1.5)
Kyte - 877 (2.4%)
Raine - 1,077 (2.9%)
Selina - 1297 (3.5%)
Georgia - 2,427 (6.5%)
Sylvia - 2598 (7%)
Ness - 2876 (7.7%)
Cleo - 3,542 (9.5%)
Kir - 4,438 (11.9%)
Dorian - 17, 617 (47.2%)
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