This post is extremely overdue! I apologize! Last year was a particularly busy one for me. While y’all were exercising your creativity with the prompts each day, I was preparing for the birth of my first kiddo - a little guy who came 3 weeks early and before I had a chance to recap the challenge. Once he was here, I disappeared into first-time-parent newborn life for awhile. And now, I’m back! Thank you all for your patience and understanding as I navigated (and continue to navigate) a major life change.
Now, without further ado, let’s recap!
10,390 total entries were submitted in 2021!
This includes all entries that were submitted via the Google Form, including late entries (and excluding duplicate entries).
Which brings us to 31,556 total recorded entries since we began this challenge in 2017!
And, we had 80 volunteer artists in 2020!! Which means that there were 80 prize-winners!
A breakdown of the stats + announcement of the Participation Prize winners are below the cut ~
Want to see all public entries? Here’s a link to the Master Spreadsheet. This omits entries that people requested to keep private between them and I.
Total Participation Year to Year:
Prompt Participation by Year:
NOTE: The big dips are Make up / Extra Credit Days. Lots of folks choose to take a break over writing Extra Credit. Legit!
Prompt Breakdown by Week:
Submissions by Day:
NOTE: Day 7 was the day before the 24-hour deadline went into effect. Hence, the big ol’ spike.
Submissions by Platform:
Participation Prize Winners
Winners were selected via a random raffle dice roll made by each of the artists and span all online writing platforms, including Tumblr, Ao3, Google Docs, and others (like Twitter). This writing challenge is not a contest - no one’s work was being judged for length, skill, etc. The prizes are based on participation only!
Prizes are a simple black & white portrait of the winner’s character. Most are shoulder up but the artists are free to take liberties if they’d like. Prizes are not commissioned work, so ultimately it’s the artist’s choice for what they’d like to do for the piece. Some artists (not all) accept commissions and might be open to colorizing a prize piece, after it’s been posted, at their normal rates.
All of 2021′s winners have been contacted, and most prizes have been completed. As always, there are a few whose artists needed to drop out for personal reasons, and that’s ok! In those cases, the winners will be carried over into 2022′s pool of winners where another artist will pick up their prize and complete it. That being said, if you were a 2021 winner and you haven’t seen a completed prize yet, please feel free to reach out to me!
fjola-miret-njer
xivchaele
eikwoods
cheetah-smith-ffxiv
saesama
TristanLoupmont
three-fulm-thaumaturd
PlatyPaints
ffxivaltaholic
pocket-panda
way-to-the-future
Kyorgra
avablackstone
crossmusings
renzu-valra
Falindae
zoomizoomi
Sectanza
AppleCube
house-vexile
opheliaglorfindal
Houserosaire
katalinhunter
afreesworn
hyphen-yaeger
idyllshires
KA_Crittenden
mathemagiks
thecat-inthehat
NekoNomicon
faelune-home
Vegaether
lissette_txt
jlsigman
fantasy-of-iolite
ravencrossffxiv
efrmellifer
blacksnakeofkugane
Lacroix
Lokus
juntei
boricha
WriterRaven
whispersafterdusk
Rosh/Imadyn
brightrind
michikodhol
kewlthulhu
Jorshamo
Soparia
Deiicide
erickgage
sambadechocobo
snowbird-down
yokasaris
heartlyght
SableKitten
Caffeinated Mess
peachyraye
astraut
fair-fae
delightfulvoidstudent
biff-adventurer
ffxiv-swarm
emberfall
windupnamazu
tonburberryXIV
yaianse
storytellerarin
desert_ghosts
Vee
sonderwrit
blaze_eyes
ayakamizu_ffxiv
tae-ffxiv
reikomizuno
Meghan
theredshirtwholived
carbillya
eiricat
Congrats, winners!
We’ll see you next September for FFxivWrite2022
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