STORY CREATION CHALLENGE: ROUND 3
Round 3: new format, new surprises!
After half a year of break, the Story Creation Challenge is back with Round 3! Months of conceptualisation went into this, and I am excited to reveal the events that are going to happen under this challenge.
Initially, I wanted to give myself three weeks for a round of challenge. However, I may be too pressed for time to be able to deliver quality content, so why not let this challenge be three months long instead? Within these three months, I am going to bring in lots of fun ideas to try out and to sharpen my creative writing skills.
There will be one event per month, so there will be plenty of writing to do!
March 2021: Spring Equinox celebration - The WrAIter’s Challenge
With the season that brings us life comes forth new ideas to enliven all sorts of stories. This challenge is for the one who is troubled by writer’s block and desires for a constant flow of inspiration in one’s stories.
How does it work? Simply write out a coherent story using a cheat, that is any artificially intelligent (AI) programme that responds to whatever you write. Such programmes are indispensable in creating your own text-based role-playing games.
For me, I will be trying out world-building and exploring a genre that I am mostly unfamiliar with to challenge my creativity to the greatest extent possible. The “AI Dungeon” app allows me to do this. I cannot wait how it’s AI programme will surprise me!
April 2021: Sequel Writing Event - Arc 2 of the Free Frontiers world
I must confess that it was presumptuous of me to call a mere five chapters a “book”, and I think it will be more appropriate to call it an “arc”, as with how it works in popular culture.
The theme for the second arc is the resolving of a crisis. After being trapped in an enigmatic parallel world within a game that smells of danger, Garner will attempt to clear the quest in that world and unearth some of the troublesome truths that underlie virtual reality.
I shall name the second arc as “Escape from Ophelia’s Dreams”.
Some of my plans for this arc are inspired by the “Chaos;Child” anime. The philosophies and views expressed in this anime can give me some sort of direction for the story of this arc.
May / June 2021: Birthday Special - new blog post series on local tourism
Recently, I have spent much time exploring the various attractions around my country of Singapore, where I have had various experiences and takeaways. Under this series, I will share my exploits and my thoughts on them.
This series is also significant to me because it is also a way for me to test out new ways of how I use the blog. With this series as a launchpad, I hope to explore the possibility of using the blog more as my personal diary than its being a scrapbook of whatever interesting things I find on the Internet. I also intend for the blog content to be more bite-sized and fragmented, much unlike its wordy predecessor.
It also ties in with my birthday, which marks the anniversary of my revitalisation of the blog. That one-year mark is a good opportunity for me to look back at what I have done, and how I could further improve on what I do for the blog.
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