Your challenge this week is to write a ballad about a daring quest.

Remember, in order to receive points for completing the weekly challenge, you MUST declare it by Monday at midnight.

As always...



If this is your first time on one of these quests, you'll need to see the initiation pamphlet.

Also, I would like to remind everyone that any weekly challenge pieces that are posted on the forum will be eligible to be featured in our newsletter. Please post a link in this thread if you would like it to be considered.

If you could write your sign-up post in a similar format to the following, it would be appreciated:
Goal: weekly challenge (or whatever you decide to do)
Timezone: PDT

Go!!!! *shoots off fireworks*

Dragon-slayers for the week of August twenty-sixth to September first:
Raven of the Wood: Culture article on birthdays in Athulia, history article on the Raseild Rebellion. (PDT) COMPLETE
Katharina: (CDT)
 Weekly Goal COMPLETE
 Personal goal: edit/rewrite two chapters in WIP COMPLETE
PrincessoftheKing: Complete the 'Why' and 'If' Stages in my MC's character fractal. (Around 2,000 words, I think) (EDT) COMPLETE
Lycanis: Finish nano with at least 50,000 words. (PDT) COMPLETE
Aratrea: Do a Character Fractal for Rainor and some writing about the full power/survivability of the Capstone (EDT) COMPLETE
Lady Rwebhu Kidh: (GMT)
 Weekly challenge COMPLETE
 Personal goal: write the last three sections of a character fractal for my character COMPLETE x2
Aubrey: Completely finish editing Peter's Angel and get it sent to the proofreader (CDT) COMPLETE

Goal: Culture article on birthdays in Nalycia, history article on the Raseild Rebellion.
Timezone: PDT.

*hems and haws* To write a ballad or not to write a ballad, that is the question.

Weekly Goal: ballad *cringes*
Personal goal: edit/rewrite two chapters in WIP
Time Zone: CDT

Goal: Complete the 'Why' and 'If' Stages in my MC's character fractal. (Around 2,000 words, I think)
Time Zone: EST

I'm out for this week. *Is off camping* See y'all next week!

Personal goal: Finish nano with at least 50,000 words.
PDT

Goal: Weekly challenge, and...wait, can I do a personal challenge and a weekly challenge?
Time Zone: GMT

Can I ask questions? * timidly *

Yes, you can do a weekly challenge and a personal challenge. Questions are most certainly welcome .

Oh-key. * smiles * Umm...so should I just post my personal challenge now? And how many challenges can I do?

Oh, good. What does it mean by 'incorporate the weekly challenge into the personal one'? Does that mean I write a ballad about the person I'm developing, or write a post about warfare in a nation that I'm writing a short story about, or things like that?

And the other thing means that if I write two ballads, I get 8 points?

What if I write two ballads about the two characters I am developing for my personal goals...does that mean it adds up to 22 points?

Personal Challenge: Do a Character Fractal for Rainor and some writing about the full power/survivability of the Capstone
Timezone: EST

Raven is going to have to answer most of those questions for you, but I can answer your first two .

Yes, post your personal goal now. The way I do it is thus (if I am doing the weekly challenge and a personal goal):
Weekly challenge: state the weekly challenge here
Personal goal: state your personal goal here
Time Zone:

You can repeat the weekly challenge as many times as you want for extra points, but personal goals do not get extra points if you complete it more than once.

Weekly challenge: A ballad
Personal goal: write the last three sections of a character fractal for my character
Time Zone: GMT

There! Thanks, Katharina!

Glad to be of service, Lady Rwebhu!

Personal Goal: Completely finish editing Peter's Angel and get it sent to the proofreader
Timezone: CST

If the Lord wills I'm completing that goal tonight. Normally I'd consider that cheating, but considering how major of a project this is (and how hard I had to work yesterday and today to get there)... it counts. 'Sides, I am NOT making any more writing goals after that this week. *staggers in exhaustion*

*gives Aubrey a wheelchair to help her to her computer*

It is done.

@Wolf --

What?... ^__________^

When are we supposed to report what we have finished? When we have finished everything we plan on doing?

Yes, and make sure you do it before midnight Saturday. Oh, and you can report one goal at a time, like if you get the weekly challenge or all your personal goals done.

OK...so I got my personal goal done, and I also got a ballad written. (Ballads are fun, I've never written one before... ) I might try to write another ballad before Saturday...

Good job!

@Wolf -- *shakes head fondly*

I am done! *celebrates*

Yay!

My goal is done too.

I wrote another ballad and began another one, but I won't finish it this week. * is very glad she remembered to report today *

Oh my goodness! I totally forgot about this! *runs to go finish*

Good job Juliet!

Go Abby!

I finished my personal goal. Now to go attempt the ballad again .

I finished my ballad. I am going to post it here, because I know it isn't very good and I don't really want to post it elsewhere . Hopefully this qualifies as a daring quest .The siding has lead paint, does that make it more daring ?

You can do it!
*sees latest post* That was...interesting timing.

Good job, I like it!

That was interesting timing ! Thanks!

*sprints back into room*

*gasps for air*

Done!

Personal and Weekly Goals completed.

Yay! Good job guys!

*laughs* That was so fun, Faith!

Thanks, Aubrey!

Sorry I didn't get to these sooner, Juliet.


Well, let's use this week as an example. If you made it your personal goal to write a ballad about the dramatic death of a kitten, you would be incorporating the weekly goal, because you would use part of the weekly goal's requirements in your personal goal. Or, you could write a short story about a daring quest, and that would also incorporate it. Does that make sense?


That's right.


Since you're only allowed to make one personal goal per week (though you can fit many goals into the one goal), the most you could get from incorporating would be 7 points. However, if you also wrote ballads that totally fit the criteria, that number could go up as far as you want.

Great job everyone! This week is now complete.

Scoreboard.

Week twenty-three.