Hello lovely campers! Welcome, one and all to our very first swc weekly <3 We will be hopping right into this with writing a short story random by use of random generators!

In order to write a short story, we will need to prepare 3 things:

- At least two characters
- The setting
- A plot

Characters

edit: there is only going to be one option because the fake person generator has some things that may not be appropiate. if you have already started dw about it and you can continue, but for anyone who hasn't started, please use the plant one! Thank you <3

For character planning is to use this plant encyclopedia and create a character based off a plant! https://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/

Click on any plant there and it will bring up a more detailed description of the plant! Now that you have this plant, read through all of the descriptions and create a list of personality traits that are inspired by this plant. I will take the first plant, the philodendron as an example:

“The most common varieties of philodendrons are the climbing type.” So for this, I may say that my character is an overachiever. They will climb to the top to reach their goals. Or “Philodendrons are very low maintenance and can sit idle for long periods.” So my character may be easy going and independent. They do not rely on other people to do work for them. Now continue this until you have a list of 10 traits.

Now that you have a list, take that list and write in full sentences a more in depth description of you character. You may change some traits from your list, but try to stick to the original idea.

You must create a minimum of two characters in either of these ways and write a 150 words description for each of them. This will equal a minimum of 300 words for the character portion.

Plot

Our next section will be figuring out our plot! For this part, we will be using a fear generator created by the lovely honey (thank you honey ^^): https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/projects/550628944/

Fears can play a major role in the plotline. A fear will most likely prevent someone from doing something, adding to a conflict. For example in Percy Jackson, he had a fear of losing his loved ones. This added to the conflict because he had to choose between saving the world or saving his friends.

Pick a random fear for one of your characters (or you could do both) and somehow incorporate this into your plot.

Now we can also take a plot/prompt generator to start off our story:
https://www.squibler.io/plot-generator

For my example:

I got glossophobia, the fear of speaking publicly. My plot is “the accident wasn’t her fault”. Perhaps the plot could follow one of my characters, let's call her Cassy, is leading a rebellion. My other character, the plant (we’ll call him Phil) is the leader of the government Cassy is rebelling again. Cassy gets petrified during a riot when she’s supposed to make a speech. This results in chaos and a death of one of her supporters.

Write at least 100 words describing the main outline of what’s going to happen in your story.

Setting

Next we need to work on our setting! For this you have two options to choose from: a list of ice cream flavors or a list of boba drinks. Choose one ice cream flavor or boba drink to base your setting off of and describe the setting in at least 250 words.

(hush i’ll edit this later and add an example)

Writing the story

Now that you have everything, write a short story at least 1,000 words! You got this and I can’t wait to see what you come up with c: Remember you must show proof in order to gain points for weeklies! The whole thing is a minimum of 1650 words, share what you created for this weekly for 3,000 points! Go have fun <33

If you are unable to access any of these websites for any particular reason, do not fret! Honey has created a post with screenshots of some options you can use for this weekly ^^ https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/topic/525971/?page=2#post-5396912

The weekly is due by 11:59pm EDT on July 10th

Great job Bakie! :D

Edit: oo first ;)

first?
wait no second-

TW: caps )) I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

This is awesome!

YESS SUCH A FUN WEEKLY

YAY FEAR AND ANXIETY IS MY SPECIALTY

…kinda

Nice!

Dang, I think this may be the method I use to make all my characters now! It's really awesome <3

Hello, my name is Hyanna! I’m a christian girl that likes skateboarding. I love boba drinks and my favorite colors are yellow and dark red. I’m more of an artistic kind of people and my zodiac sign is Virgo. Have a nice day! Thanks

“Keep finding experiences”

Adventure For The Win

Cool! Ill get writing ^^

Woah! A long daily but hopefully I can do it

Awsome B) this is such a cool weekly and I will spend way too long browsing for plants and ice cream but don’t blame me I’m stuck inside and ice cream makes me happy xD

Do we need to make a forum post or make a project?

rainliqht- wrote:

Woah! A long daily but hopefully I can do it

I think it’s a weekly haha

This is oddly similar to the last weekly of last session… This sounds fun!

:0 i think i completed the weekly first lol (if u wanna read it xd, its here: https://scratch-mit-edu.ezproxy.canberra.edu.au/discuss/topic/526014/?page=1#post-5395820 )

BAKIEE! we need the example for the setting

woo daily speedrun time

Can't wait to start!! Also I'm from mystery cabin!