A huge thank YOU to user milk for our amazing GFX!

Welcome to Author of the Week with host

lil

This is a bi-weekly article where you can showcase your best writing for everyone to read and enjoy. There will be options from all different stories of storytelling and poetry, which will be explained each week in the theme section of the article. We also have a couple of literacy games for you to take part in to win diamonds and badges.

Let your creative juices show and let your stories do the talking!

The rules for writing can be quite obvious, but to those of you who are new to the writing world, here are some basic guidelines:

1. No copying work from other sources from anything from online to actual books.

2. Your submission needs to follow the theme. 

3. All short stories need to be approximately 100 to 1000 words. 

4. Only the user who submitted will receive the prize. 

5. NEW! You must submit your piece by using ONLY Google Docs link.

6. Using ChatGPT or any other AI will be denied as an entry.

8. Keep your submission Suitable For Work (SFW) at all times. All NSFW entries will be denied as an entry.

9. NEW! Only your first entry to any segment of the article will be accepted.

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Do note more rules could be added in the future!

1st Place: 1000 Diamonds, 30,000 Credits, Gold Badge, 10 medals

2nd Place: 800 Diamonds, 25,000 Credits, 20,000 Duckets, Silver Badge, 8 medals

3rd Place: 600 diamonds, 20,000 Credits, 10,000 Duckets, Bronze Badge, 6 medals

All entries for the story writing segment only will receive 2 medals

All participants in any segment part of this edition of Author of the Week will win an exclusive Olympic badge!

PLEASE NOTE: If you place in the top 3 this week, you will not be able to place in the next article!

A huge thank you to bulb for our new amazing badges!

The theme for this week is . . .

“Winning Olympic Gold”

Write a short story or poem about winning an Olympic gold medal. Here are a couple of prompts to get you started:

• Competing in the Olympics for your favourite sport

• How winning a gold medal made you feel

• The day you won an Olympic gold medal

• Traveling to Paris for the Olympics

• Training for the Olympics

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These are only prompts - be as creative as you like!

Submit by 

Sunday 25th August 2024 at 23:00 BST. 

Timestamps are noted, so get them in before then!

Click the submit picture below to hand in your work!

“The Ancient Boon Olympics Special”

Go for gold by designing your own eye-catching Ancient Greek Olympic book cover and write a short but captivating blurb. Be as creative as you like!

Please submit your pixel art book cover using IMGUR only. This must 500x350 pixels.

Please submit your blurb (100-200 words) by using google docs only.

Thank you!

Time to compete to be the best, these are the prizes up for grabs:

1st: Gold Wreath Crown & 12 medals

2nd: 800 Diamonds & 10 medals

3rd: 600 Diamonds & 8 medals

This Olympic special is running for the whole Olympic period! Please get your entries in before 6th September!

We’re so excited to bring a literacy game to Author of the Week which is Word Search! We only have 1 basic rule for you to follow, only use YELLOW highlighter to grab the words. Once done, make sure to upload it via IMGUR and submit! Basic, right?

This week’s winner is… *drum rolls*

emz!

Click here to view the word search as a larger image.

Games

Rings

Flame

Athletic

Trophy

Strength

Summer

Winter

Medal

Stadium

Click the submit picture above to send your Word Search!

100 diamonds and an exclusive badge are automatically given!

We have brought a popular game to Author of the Week! All you have to do is guess 8 words relating to the definition given.

The word will begin with the letter next to the definition.

This week’s winner is… *drum rolls*

skygue!

T- a great victory or achievement

S - make great efforts to achieve or obtain something

T- the action of teaching a person or animal a particular skill or type of behaviour

W - gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition

B - a yellowish-brown alloy of copper with up to one-third tin

S - a precious shiny greyish-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 47

B - ready to face and endure danger or pain; showing courage

D - the quality of being determined; firmness of purpose

Click the button above to submit your answers. If multiple people score correctly then we will use a randomised generator to pick a winner.

250 diamonds and an exclusive badge are automatically given!

Submit by 

Sunday 25th August 2024 at 23:00 BST. 

Timestamps are noted, so get them in before then!

For other concerns, do not hesitate to approach in-game or via Discord!

All’s fair in love and poetry,

lil

lil / lillula.