Fellow Scholars and Scribes! I bid you welcome to the third annual SCRIBE SPOTLIGHT! π mosh pit ensues π
Each year we take a month to celebrate and commemorate our most diligent and talented authors. πΊ
All quotes in this showcase are from the spotlighted creator's works.
Our Scribe of the Year for 2024 returns in a more modest, yet equally impressive setting. A lover of sci-fi to the core. And a screenwriter turned author. It is with great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, that I present to you... π₯π₯π₯
π killerwot π
@killerwot has written so much in the past two years that it borders insanity. His improvements as a Scribe are vast and numerous. His penmanship has improved in quality by leaps and bounds. All the while, his ambitious vision has remained epic in scope.
He has been one of the most prolific Scribes, contributing work after work to the community. As a Scholar he tends to focus on the positive, offering encouragement and seeing the good in every work. A ray of sunshine that I hope never fades, or I guess, a planet-destroying beam that actually just wants to heal people instead. // you will admit that that metaphor worked...
The first piece we are looking at is the The Captains Wager. A very short piece that allows me to talk about one of Kills' central improvements - his use of dialogue.
As someone who has been reading this man's work for over 2 years now, I can tell you that dialogue was never a problem for our boy here. However, how it is presented, and how it is incorporated into the story, has seen a great deal of improvement. Dialogue is not just about Person A outwits Person B. But about how that dynamic shapes the story and world of these characters. In that sense, @killerwot has learned how to let the dialogue serve the story and the world. Not just be cool for cool's sake.
Captain Vance stood up, as onlookers of his immediate crew turned in their stations to watch him. Thirne and his small fireteam also watched by the door. As he made it to the blank wall oppisite his own station he pressed against one of the panels, and automatically it opened, revealing the Captains armory.
The second story is The Wind. Here, we see Kills' (I know you love all the nicknames I am giving to these people) shows his notable improvement in the structure of his works. The paragraphs and how the beats flow into one another. As someone who is relatively new to writing, he has learned this important skill feverishly fast.
Besk was a world synonymous with storms, in the few years she had been here she witnessed no less than 10 major storms, which were considered little more than a minor annoyance to the natives. "Work must still be done," her supervisor told her during her first major storm. All she wanted to do was clock off a little bit earlier than usual..
At the end of the day, @killerwot is just a good bloke who loves good stories. Always there to praise his fellow Scholars he has never given up on his epic tales and scopes. I hope he continues to improve, and of course, to share his master plans with us here. Kudos, my dude! π
Congratulations, Killerwot on a well deserved spotlight! I completely agree with Grocko about your creative skill and refined dialogues. The way you take your readers through a captivating world with interesting characters is inspiringβthe preserve of a writer who has honed their skill. We look forward to reading more of your stories. Kudos!
Thanks so much, Kemmy! I'm honored to be given a Spotlight, and Grocko has such a funny way with words, always a treat to read these monthly highlights.
Hey Scholars N Scribes!
Another Spotlight is out. Please let's celebrate and encourage the recipient. Thank you! β¨
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Hahaha man, thank you so much. I love the idea of a healing beam of light. The Death Star controlled by hippies.
I can 100% feel the vast improvement, but as I always say, I may be better, but there is always much more to learn.
Also, if I can lend encouragement and help someone move forward with their work, I'm happy.
Way to go dude! You've been crushing it and it's well deserved.
Thanks so much. It has been a great journey so far, and there's plenty more to go.
Thank you and @alonicus for all of the fantastic world building prompts that helped to build and populate each setting and inspire more stories.
It has been a while since I done some world building. I said I was going to wait until I drew some maps to kind of help pinpoint locations, but sadly, I haven't had the time to do any drawing yet. It's a good excuse to blow the cobwebs off my digital drawing pad thing, though.
@killerwot - the Scribe I most steal motivation from π I love that so many of the stories are episodes set in an internally consistent universe, it builds so much additional depth once you realise that all these different people's tales are happening in the same galaxy, often at around the same time. Keep up the good work !
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that!
I love that, too. To be honest, I think that each story building upon an established world is fairly good because it just allows the mind to wander deeper into it for the next story.
Creating a timeline is something I'm working on, too, so I can kind of have a rough idea of what has happened and what hasn't. Also, the settings can change a bit here and there between stories, which could add nice bits of detail. A building under construction for one character could be a long-standing staple of another's life.
It's like when talking to people or family about the town, hearing what areas used to be like, and comparing that to what those places were to me growing up.
My mum always says about how she could see a lake from our road and it was nothing but fields and meadows when we first moved in, but as I was growing up we played in construction sites which were then housing estates within just a couple of years.
Sending you an Ecency curation vote.
