WoPoWriMo Web-badge :) (by sarah)

As a participant of WoPoWriMo I get a cute web-badge 🙂

(of course I made it so it's probably cheating to have it up on my websites but hey - I did the challenge too you know!)

I'm collecting quiet a few of these 'web-badges' ie NaNoWriMo and PiBoIdMo and I don't really want to fit them into the themes on my blogs so I'm planning to make a page of them all nestled together which I think will look really cool 🙂

It would sort of be like having a framed certificates on you wall 🙂

Wiggly Pet Sales :) (by sarah)

I went into Stuffed Nonsense in Cheltenham to check on the Wiggly Pets - I'd sold £20 worth of Wiggly Pets which means that I am about braking even 🙂 This cheered me up though I am a little concerned that most of the revenue came from people I know going and buying them!

But at the end of the day they have only been in there for a month and so I can not really extrapolate weather or not this will be worth it or not :/

Game Design (by sarah)

I have decided that this month I am having my very own Game Design Month - this is really just me on my own maybe I'll set it up as something official next year but we'll have to see.

Basically thanks to WoPoWriMo I ended up making a game - it is the sort you can have add-ons too and simple or complex versions. So I am going to try and make at least the first phase of it an actuality this month.

The idea is that during this month I have to spend a minimum of 31 hours working on this game!

At the moment I have spent about 5 hrs so far sourcing things like egg/sand timers, boxes and dice!

I already had the design for the cards and need to get a move on in finalising them and getting a couple of sets printed. This will take up alot of time if I'm honest because it's all going to be faffing around with margins and the like!

Of course then there will have to be a website and the like! The most basic game will contain 20 cards, timer, two dice and a rules/games to play sheet. This will unfortunetly set you back £15 but I feel it would be a good investment - especially for writers who the games is aimed at. Hopefully it will be popular with students maybe as a drinking game or something (hoping I'm not now going to be sued or something for encouraging binge drinking) - you know the sort of fun party game that has you rolled up in hysterics 🙂

I suppose I'd best get on with it then hadn't I!

Therizinosaur Time Capsule (by sarah)

Well I managed to get something in for the Therizinosaur Time Capsule on the Art Evolved website. My contribution does look like a Skeksis from the Dark Crystal :/ but never mind! (For those who haven't read the previous entries on this Therizinosaurs are dinosaurs and ART evolved is a site on palaeo-art).

This is the second one I have entered and I am still only getting around to giving them the planning sketches :/ Something I hope to solve with the next one which is why I already have the book pages marked out and have not put the art stuff away!

This time capsule also coincides with ART Evolves first birthday 🙂 I am really happy to have found them before they cross that threshold - not sure why but it just feels important!

When I find my camera lead I will also complete the live blogging of the art work on Salaric Art and Craft - I have even made a palaeo-art section on there along with a my drawings/paintings.

WoPoWriMo is over – Victory (by sarah)

World Poetry Writing Month is over and have produced about twice as many poems as the target 🙂 Of course I did go to one poetry workshop which produced one of the poems and alot of them were generated by the writing game I've been designing!

I found the whole process very rewarding even though I was running all the web-stuff for the project!

I now have so much material I'm not really sure were to go with it!

Anyway alot of it is already up on Turquoise Monster - though I can already see where I want to edit a few of them.

Alaric also managed his 28 hiakus some of which are so bueatiful 🙂 Being Alaric they are on a thing meant for software development Git-Hub.

Mum also did 28 poems which can be seen on WoPoWriMo Poems.

Even Jeany has been writing poems which I'll try and get round to typing up :/ Though she did not do 28!

Over all the project has successful beyond what I was expecting 🙂