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CREATIVITY MONTH & HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY EVENT

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  • Leader
    November 30, 2016

    Three months ago, we began the Great Migration to our new home on Social Engine. Everyone here has been working tirelessly to rebuild, refine, improve, and acclimate since then, and the Hosts and Admins so appreciate everyone's patience and willingness to pitch in. We've come a long way as a community, and to celebrate all of you and the place we all consider "home" on the internet, we are bringing you a special event: a month of celebrating the return to our roots as the best Elder Scrolls and Fallout creative community there is. 


    Creativity Month Banner

    For the entire month of December, anyone who posts a new, original piece of creative content is eligible to receive a profile badge and a front page feature. (Badge unveiling coming soon!)

    What do we mean by new, original creative content? 

    - Do you have a build you've been meaning to post?
    - Need an excuse to conclude a short or long blog series you started?
    - Been meaning to try your hand at crafting a volume of poetry?
    - Have an idea for an article or guide (of any kind!) you've been trying to get to?
    - Maybe you've been meaning to wrap up that roleplay profile?
    - Need an excuse to buckle down and finish a brand new mod you've been working on?
    - Looking to complete a work of art that's been on your desk for months? 
     
    Any of these things count as new, original content, and we'd love to see what you've been playing with since the release of Special Edition last month.
     
    All you need to do to participate, is link to your new, original work in this thread to receive the badge. That's it. Badges will be distributed throughout the month. Please note that if you do not link to your new work in the thread, you will not receive a badge, as we know not everyone might want to participate, and it's the most effective and only fool-proof way of tracking new works. 
     
    Not ideas jumping out at you? Be on the lookout for various mini-events that Site Hosts may post to give ideas and prompts. Any works posted for a mini-event is eligible for the Creativity Month event.
     
    In addition to this, we are hosting a site-wide holiday giveaway which ties into our Creativity Month Event. Anyone who submits a new piece of content (from December 1st, 12:00 AM Eastern time to December 31st, 11:59 PM Eastern time), will also be eligible win a prize in our giveaway. Requirements for eligibility in the giveaway are simply that you:
     
    1. Subscribe to CouchWarriorTV on YouTube; 
    2. Are a registered member on the Vault, and;
    3. That you post new, original content during the month of December.
     
    At the end of the month, the Hosts will review the submissions posted in this thread. The three people who have put forth the greatest creative efforts (considering BOTH quantity and quality), will receive special badges reflecting their accomplishments, as well gaming giftcards of their choosing (Steam, PS, or Xbox). 

    1st Place: $100 giftcard
    2nd Place: $50 giftcard
    3rd Place: $25 giftcard

    We advise anyone who is interested in participating in the giveaway to post their links to any and all new creative works in this thread for giveaway consideration.
     
    If you have any questions, please feel free to post them below.
     
    We look forward to seeing your creative juices flowing and celebrating with you! :)
  • Member
    December 1, 2016

    Ermm it don't have to be FINISHED Blog stories does it? UOTW is an ongoing one.........

  • December 1, 2016

    I'm certainly hoping it doesn't have to be a finished Blog. I'll be sure to post here when I have something! Probably AotQ Part 18, which I'm just finishing up now.

  • December 1, 2016

    Need an excuse to conclude a short or long blog series you started?

    It´s finishing, guys. Bringing a story to an end. :)

  • December 1, 2016

    Karver the Lorc said:

    Need an excuse to conclude a short or long blog series you started?

    It´s finishing, guys. Bringing a story to an end. :)

     

    Nooooo! Ah well. Can I post Memoirs of Mundus short stories? Though technically, it's a series, the stories aren't really connected, and I don't plan on it ever being really "complete".

  • December 1, 2016

    Tenebrous said:

    Karver the Lorc said:

    Need an excuse to conclude a short or long blog series you started?

    It´s finishing, guys. Bringing a story to an end. :)

    Nooooo! Ah well. Can I post Memoirs of Mundus short stories? Though technically, it's a series, the stories aren't really connected, and I don't plan on it ever being really "complete".

    Well, then maybe you could look at this December as a Month of Short Stories then. Kind of. Come up with something new, short, that you can easily finish. Because that is a new original content. 

    I understand that it sucks that you can´t qualify with series you´re already writing, but look at it from this way. How is that any different from anything you were doing so far? You were writing Agents last month, the month before that and you will be writing Agents in December. Is that original? 

    The reason why we included the "conclude a short or long blog series" as something that qualifies is that maybe you have been working on a large project for whole year and it is coming to an end, so anything like that deserves a big spotlight. Plus...how many people here actually finish their stories? They either write an endless story or never get to the last chapter. Finishing a story is quite a big deal. That´s why it is listed as new and original content.

     

     

  • Member
    December 1, 2016

    You guys do this just when I'm taking a long break from Skyrim. Oh well, maybe I'll join next year. :D

  • Member
    December 1, 2016

    The only TES thing I've been working on lately is a mod for Morrowind, though it's still far from being finished.

  • December 1, 2016

    Very good point, Karver. This leads to another question, though. What happens if we start a new series? I have a little something brewing, and it might be ready soon. That's something different I'm doing. If not, then I'll get to work on some Memoirs stuff I've neglected. Either way, I like the idea of this contest! :)

  • Member
    December 1, 2016

    Noodles said:

    You guys do this just when I'm taking a long break from Skyrim. Oh well, maybe I'll join next year. :D

    May I suggest creating a RP Profile for one of your old characters? (*nudge nudge wink wink) :P