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FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge SEPTEMBER 1st - 30th, 2021

Welcome to YEAR 5 of our annual FFxiv 30 Day Writing Challenge, folks!

In 2017 we saw 2,451 written pieces ranging from three-lined haikus to multi-paged stories. 2018 saw 3,641 written pieces, and 2019 ramped up even more with 6,543 written pieces counted. And last year, in 2020, we had 8,757 total counted entries!

That means that in 4 years you’ve collectively written 21,392 pieces for this challenge!! That’s frickin’ amazing!

Here’s the gist:

Runs from September 1st - 30th, 2021. During that time frame:

Visit sea-wolf-coast-to-coast​ once a day at 12:00pm (noon) PDT for the prompt of the day. Convert to your timezone accordingly. All prompts will be one word or brief phrase that you can interpret however you please.

You have 24 hours to write something for that prompt.

Submit the link to your entry post via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/zPdHWtwwhdzvTD82A

There are no length or skill requirements (short & sweet is fine!).

There will be no 24-hour deadlines for the first week, September 1st - 7th.

Makeup/extra credit days every Sunday.

Every entry posted within its 24-hour deadline will count toward a participation prize raffle at the end.

You can join any time with any prompt #! There’s no need for latecomers to start with prompt #1. Picking up with the most recent prompt is A OK.

If you’re an artist and you would like to volunteer to do a simple black & white illustration as a participation prize at the end of this challenge, you can volunteer here!

RULES & MORE INFO can be found here: https://ffxiv-write.carrd.co/

(( banner art by @dantinmikannes ))

The final numbers are in, the participation prize winners have been randomly selected, and we are officially finished with #FFxivWrite2020!

8,757 total entries were submitted in 2020!

This includes all entries that were submitted via the Google Form, including late entries (and excluding duplicate entries).

That’s 2,214 more than last year (6,543 total in 2019), 5,116 more than the year before (3,641 total in 2018), and 6,532 more than the year before (2,225 total in 2017). Which brings us to 21,166 total entries over 4 years!

Pretty crazy, right??

And, we have 61 volunteer artists this year!! Which means that this year there are 61 prizes.

A breakdown of the stats + announcement of the Participation Prize winners are below the cut ~

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