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The Writers Workshop
A community event focused around your characters!
A community event focused around your characters!
Welcome! It's that time of year again!
What it is
Trainers of Fanfiction will take characters from across the Writers Workshop and focus on them in mini interviews. If you're familiar with Humans of New York, that is the general style we'll be working towards: questions presented to the character that is being focused on, as well as their in-character answer to it. Insight into specific aspects of a character's development, personality, history or trivia can certainly be tricky to cover within a chapter, especially if this insight can be seen as relatively minor. Here's an opportunity to approach from a different format and get that insight out there for your readers!
The theme
This round's theme will focus on the people less seen in fanfiction - the professionals. What does this mean? Well, characters who aren't trainers, coordinators, or rescue team members. In other words, characters who don't have League or Guild-based jobs!
How to participate
Interested in participating in this? This year we have a Google form for event submissions, which can be found here.
Please note, there is a 1500 word limit to answer all questions.
Does your story focus on the pokémon rather than humans, such as a Pokémon Mystery Dungeon story? Don't worry! Pokémon characters can also take part in this event just fine. Questions will be adjusted as necessary to fit their role within their story. What if you don't write Pokémon fanfiction? No problem, non-Pokémon fandom characters are allowed.
What will this look like?
Humans of New York features photos of the people interviewed. While we would love to provide the same level of attention to your characters with drawn art, it's highly impractical. However, we do have another thing in store for the graphical section, something reminiscent of the Pokémon games! Here's a quick preview of what one will look like (Bear in mind we may tweak the design a little!):
Always wanted to see a visual representation of what you imagine your characters to look like? Here's a good chance to see that happen. Please note that we are unable to do sprite work for post-Generation V characters - another art style will be substituted for those.
That's all!
That's all for now folks! We've run this event a few years in a row now, so regulars will know the routine. We're really excited to see how this turns out, so let's put together an impressive list of characters and interviews!
If you have any questions, please let us know!