Holy Worlds Weekly Challenge: Week 259

Faith_Blum · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 6:01 pm

Weekly Challenge #259: Add an odd animal to your story or write a story about an odd animal.

Directions:
1. Post on the challenge thread, declaring the goals you have committed to. This must be done before midnight on Monday.
2. When you have finished your goals, post on the challenge thread again, stating what goals you have completed, how many times you have completed them, and whether any of them were combined.
3. At midnight on Saturday you are not allowed to report any more finished goals, and the challenge is over.

Rules:
1. You can repeat the weekly challenges, and get more points, but if you repeat your own personal goal, you will not get extra points.
2. The organizer has the right to veto any personal goal that seems too easy (i.e. writing a sentence).

Points:
You can earn points in these ways:
1. completing the weekly challenge
2. repeating the weekly challenge
3. completing your personal goal
4. combining your personal goal and the weekly challenge

Faith_Blum · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 6:03 pm

Writerly Warriors for May 21-27:

atpollard: Weekly Challenge #259 (write about an odd animal): Accepted Completed!
Personal Goal: (continue to work on drawings & write 2000 words) Completed!
Zone: EST

Miss Elizabeth: Personal goal: Finish and send blog tour stuff out, write 2,000 words. Incomplete
Time Zone: CST

Teyn Greenhood: Weekly challenge accepted (though I have no clue right now what creature I'm going to write about!) Completed!
Personal goal - 2,500 words. Completed!

Lt. General Hansen: Personal Goal: Post twice on Patreon Completed!

Domici: Weekly challenge accepted. Completed!
PG1: 1429.1.2 rewrite. PG2: Dede move forward.. Completed!+combined

Lady Brie D.: Personal Goal:Have everything set up for editing launch, give feedback for Kendra. Completed!
Timezone: AEST

atpollard · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 8:08 pm

Weekly Challenge #259 (write about an odd animal): Accepted
Personal Goal: (continue to work on drawings & write 2000 words)
Zone: EST

Faith_Blum · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 9:52 pm

Personal goal: Finish and send blog tour stuff out, write 2,000 words.
Time Zone: CST

Teyn Greenhood · **Joined:** December 24th, 2015, 6:28 pm **Posts:** 198

Is there a definition of odd that we must abide by?

Weekly challenge accepted (though I have no clue right now what creature I'm going to write about!)
Personal goal - 2,500 words.

atpollard · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 10:35 pm

Teyn Greenhood wrote:

Is there a definition of odd that we must abide by?

Yup, when Miss Elizabeth reads it, she has to say "That's odd."

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** May 21st, 2017, 11:19 pm

Personal Goal: Post twice on Patreon

This will involve at least one chapter of Peter's Angel. Not entirely sure what the other one will be, but probably the first chapter from Crook Q.

Faith_Blum · **Posted:** May 22nd, 2017, 5:09 am

Teyn Greenhood wrote:

Is there a definition of odd that we must abide by?

Nope. No definition. Be creative with it.

Domici · **Joined:** December 27th, 2014, 7:08 am **Posts:** 939

atpollard wrote:

Teyn Greenhood wrote:

Is there a definition of odd that we must abide by?

Yup, when Miss Elizabeth reads it, she has to say "That's odd."

Speaking of atpollard...

Weekly challenge accepted and already completed.
PG1: 1429.1.2 rewrite Completed and Combined.
PG2: Dede move forward. Completed.

atpollard · **Posted:** May 22nd, 2017, 7:10 am

Miss Elizabeth wrote:

Nope. No definition. Be creative with it.

Some inspiration to get the creativity flowing:

"You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir", said Alice. "Would you kindly tell me the meaning of the poem 'Jabberwocky'?"

"Let's hear it", said Humpty Dumpty. "I can explain all the poems that ever were invented--and a good many that haven't been invented just yet."

This sounded very hopeful, so Alice repeated the first verse:

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"That's enough to begin with", Humpty Dumpty interrupted: "there are plenty of hard words there. 'Brillig' means four o'clock in the afternoon--the time when you begin broiling things for dinner."

"That'll do very well", said Alice: "and 'slithy'?"

"Well, 'slithy' means 'lithe and slimy'. 'Lithe' is the same as 'active'. You see it's like a portmanteau--there are two meanings packed up into one word."

I see it now", Alice remarked thoughfully: "and what are 'toves'?"

"Well, 'toves' are something like badgers--they're something like lizards--and they're something like corkscrews."

"They must be very curious creatures."

"They are that", said Humpty Dumpty: "also they make their nests under sun-dials--also they live on cheese."

"And what's to 'gyre' and to 'gimble'?"

"To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope. To 'gimble' is to make holes like a gimlet."

"And 'the wabe' is the grass plot round a sun-dial, I suppose?" said Alice, surprised at her own ingenuity.

"Of course it is. It's called 'wabe', you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it--"

"And a long way beyond it on each side", Alice added.

"Exactly so. Well then, 'mimsy' is 'flimsy and miserable' (there's another portmanteau for you). And a 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round--something like a live mop."

"And then 'mome raths'?" said Alice. "If I'm not giving you too much trouble."

"Well a 'rath' is a sort of green pig, but 'mome' I'm not certain about. I think it's sort for 'from home'--meaning that they'd lost their way, you know."

"And what does 'outgrabe' mean?"

"Well, 'outgribing' is something between bellowing an whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle: however, you'll hear it done, maybe--down in the wood yonder--and when you've once heard it, you'll be quite content. Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?"

"I read it in a book", said Alice.

--Through The Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll

Lady Brie D. · **Joined:** March 6th, 2016, 7:41 pm **Posts:** 210

Personal Goal:Have everything set up for editing launch, give feedback for Kendra.

Timezone: AEST

atpollard · **Posted:** May 26th, 2017, 7:22 pm

Weekly Challenge #259 (write about an odd animal): Accomplished
Personal Goal (continue to work on drawings & write 2000 words): Accomplished
Zone: EST

Rachel Newhouse · **Posted:** May 26th, 2017, 11:04 pm

Personal challenge complete!

Lady Brie D. · **Joined:** March 6th, 2016, 7:41 pm **Posts:** 210

Personal goal: Completeish. I got the feedback done. Getting stuf ready for launch wasn't meant to include blog linking stuff and partly got replaced by deep research into whether I really have the skills to do developmentally editing yet. But I could launch it next week if I needed too.

And I happened to add an odd animal after deciding the weekly challenge probably wouldn't happen.

Teyn Greenhood · **Joined:** December 24th, 2015, 6:28 pm **Posts:** 198

Weekly challenge complete.
Personal goal complete.

Mistress Kidh · **Posted:** May 28th, 2017, 2:13 am

Scoreboard.

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