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Write Your World™ 2024 —

First Annual Virtual Conference

Write Your World™ is proud to announce our first annual conference.

Our theme: Write Your Joy

With workshops, games, prize giveaways, guest speakers and more, it will be six+ hours of fun, community, and the joy of writing.

Write Your Joy –
Write Your World™ 2024 Conference

Dear Writer,

Writing is a creative endeavour. There is joy in creativity, in creating. It seems like an obvious statement and maybe it is, but… how many times is it not joyful? What happens when you lose sight of the delight and fulfilment of creating? There’s another side of this: Writer’s Block.

Writer’s Block gets in the way. Being ‘in the zone’ where everything just flows, it all just clicks, and the words just fly onto the page—those moments are sheer joy.

Conversely, writer’s block is the opposite. Everything is stopped up, nothing flows, you’re in a rut, you’re stumped, nothing works and everything just feels like a fool’s errand. We’ve all been there. We all know what that’s like. There are tips, tricks, techniques—and I teach my own ways of utilising writer’s block to your advantage—to overcome this.

In the midst of this, it is important to hold onto those achievements, those touchstones, and celebrate the milestones, which is what our conference is about: Celebration.

We are celebrating the Joy of Writing, and we’re looking at four different areas:

Character
Worldbuilding
Plot
Vision

We’re also going to have prize giveaways; we’re going to have games; we’re going to have guest speakers; and, most important of all, we’re going to have fun!

—C.R. Murugiah, 2024

Join Our Conference

Saturday, 24th February 2024

Itinerary

What To Expect

Six+ Hours:
Starts at 11 am CT

11 am - 1 pm
2 workshops
▪︎ Character
▪︎ Worldbuilding

2 - 4 pm
2 workshops
▪︎ Plot
▪︎ Vision

5 - 7 pm
▪︎ Guest Speakers
▪︎ Team Game

What To Bring

▪︎ Yourself
▪︎ A friend (or many!)
▪︎ A notepad
▪︎ Pens
▪︎ Snacks

What's Included?

Parker J Cole is an author, speaker, and podcaster with a fanatical obsession with the Lord, Star Trek, K-dramas, anime, romance books, old movies, speculative fiction, and knitting.

Kimberly Huther is a 15-year veteran of professional proofreading and editing, with approximately 2500 published books to her credit. Her clients range from traditionally published to indie authors, with three clients achieving best-selling status while working with her and four receiving awards for books she edited. Kimberly is happily married to her husband of 20 years and their only child is preparing to attend college in the fall. She is also very much in love with the Lord!

Parker J Cole

Kimberly Huther

Meet Our Guest Speakers

More info soon...

Kathryn van der Pol

Greg Dunn

Agnes Vinluan-Lewis

More info soon...

”Every day, they strive to improve their service to the clients by developing the right blend of technology and creativity to make sure every job done is done as efficiently as possible.”

”Every day, they strive to improve their service to the clients by developing the right blend of technology and creativity to make sure every job done is done as efficiently as possible.”

Choose Your Team!

Team Knight
Strong, courageous, full of valour and riding a horse, knights come armed and armoured and are warriors of virtue and justice, defenders of the realm.

Valiant, gallant, honourable

Team Alien
From a barren world under a red sun, the crystals that power their civilisation began to wane after a deadly virus poisoned the soil. Now they search the cosmos to find worlds suitable for seeding their crystals, hoping for a cure, and meeting new friends along the way!

Explorers, traders, daring pioneers

Team Elf
Forest Dwellers that are secretive, wise in the ways of herblore, hunting and in tune with nature, elves are a reclusive people that tame all manner of beasts and know how to make the best soups.

Elusive, hardy, secretive

Which team will win in the inaugural annual games?

The World
On the world of Nas’Azur™, twelves stars shine brightly in the pale blue sky. They are the twelve sisters, maidens who dance between the clouds, hiding beneath the drifting moons. The brightest of the sisters is Elátosia, herald of the dawn, veil of the dusk. She is so bright that she fills the day, blotting out her sisters, but she retires during the night.

At dawn and twilight, the skies are teal, with purple and emerald streaks, silvery clouds of grey and white, and skim the mountains.

Within the rugged hills and sheer valleys, the roaring falls and deep rivers, the grasslands and the forests stand staring at each other. Beneath the blue pines, the viridian grasses shrink back; under the grasses’ soil the tufty tree roots recoil.

As with the grasses and the trees, the elves of the Dunwood Forest and the humans of the Ironstone Hills and Valleys likewise stare at each other from across the rivers.

Every year they meet for the annual games, where they engage in frivolities, camaraderie, and an exchange of culture before returning to their own lands.

This year, they are joined by a new band of friends, visitors from beyond the mountains, even, it is whispered, from beyond the sea of clouds that blankets the land from the stars.

No one knows where these visitors truly come from, but all are welcome at the games, and this year will be a year to remember. It shall be marked within the chronicles of Nas’Azur and recited in the annals of history.

Explore the world of Nas’Azur™ by joining one of the three teams: Team Knight, Team Alien, Team Elf.

Collaborate on exercises, strategise together in The Game of Knights, Aliens, and Elves, and witness the lore of our exclusive Write Your World™ Annual Conference storytelling developed and designed by C. R. Murugiah.

You’re in for a treat!

Sneak Peek!

Building Bobette

The infamous, villainous line of Bob returns — Bobette, daughter
of Bob, takes the stage!

Together, we’ll explore:

Pillars of worldbuilding: the basics
How do you define worldbuilding?
What's the world we will build for Bobette?
What aspects of worldbuilding do you like and value?
What world will we put Bobette in?
What is her story?

Workshop - Bobette

Unique Swag! Last Chance Flash Sale!

Get your 2023 Write Your World™ Swag - last chance!

FAQs

Q. Will replays be available?
A. No, this is a live event only.

Q. Will recordings be available?
A. This is a live event only.

Q. What's this about a game?
A. See below - we are introducing our very own Write Your World™ collaborative storytelling game where those present get together and are faced with a survival scenario. You decide what happens!

Q. What if I don't want to play?
A. Then sit back and enjoy the fun!

Q. What about notes?
A. We're including a handy-dandy note-taking booklet with each ticket!

Q. Why are you running this anyway?
A. We are celebrating Write Your World™ and we want you to join us! This year we're exploring Write Your Joy - joy in writing, joy in community, and more!

Q. What is the workbook?
A. The workbook is a post-conference resource to help you take your writing beyond the workshops and continue to uplevel your writing!

Q. How do I get in touch with you?
A. Connect with us by using the form at the bottom of this page.

Resources

How will you build your shelter?
▪︎ Stone
▪︎ Wood
▪︎ Resin
▪︎ Ore
▪︎ Sand

▪︎ Food
▪︎ Water
▪︎ Nectar
▪︎ Crystalite
▪︎ Clay

Features

Break-out rooms—discuss strategies with your team!

Create a backstory for the character your team has chosen.

Choose your path! Will you forge an alliance, will you hoard everything in sight, will you trade, will you fortify, will you raid?

Once your character goes through the portal, your choices will determine their fate.

Limbod the peasant—dreams of exploring and becoming a trader. He is hard-working, full of vigour, and refuses to touch alcohol. He is very superstitious.

Sir Parvis the lancer—fearless, good with horses, and knows how to ride. His great love is architecture, and his second is Lady Piety, whom he adores. His poetry is excellent, but he can be a bit impulsive.

Lady Evy—as beautiful as she is cunning, which is to say, not at all. She always believes her schemes will succeed, but they rarely do. Her goal is to obtain wealth in order to attract the best-looking suitor and make her sister, Lady Piety, jealous. She’s also seventeen.

Clakis the rope weaver—whether you need a rope, a length of linen, or a hammock, Clakis is your elf. She is exceptionally good at weaving. She is less good at baking and the communal kitchens have barred her.

Flara the Archer—she can hit an apple off the top of that squire’s head all the way over the river in the human lands from her perch up a tree and do so with a brilliant smile. A heartbreaker and unaware of it, she is athletic, lithe, and has little sense of smell, so she wears horribly overbearing perfumes.

Hesia ‘the’ elf maiden—wants to win a beauty pageant so badly that she dances all day, sings all night, and sleeps during the morning. She refuses her mail but longs to learn magic.

Team Elf

Team Alien

Team Knight

▪︎ Choose Your Team
▪︎ Gather Resources
▪︎ Construct a Shelter
▪︎ Build a Backstory
▪︎ Survive the Sundown

▪︎ Secrets to be unveiled!

What awaits beyond the portal?

Your team has been sent through the portal. Work together to survive.

▪︎ Elves have magic
▪︎ Aliens have tech
▪︎ Knights have horses

Which team will you back?

Write Your World™
Presents

The Game of Knights, Aliens, and Elves

Activities

How will you prepare?

▪︎ Explore
▪︎ Gather & Harvest
▪︎ Construct
▪︎ Interact
▪︎ Fortify/Raid

Each team has their own unique abilities, weaknesses and specials.

Specials

When will you deploy them?

▪︎ Elves: Medicinal Salve

▪︎ Aliens: Portal Crystal

▪︎ Knights: Gold Chalice

Weaknesses

How will you overcome them?

▪︎ Elves: cold and strong wind

▪︎ Aliens: extreme cold and fire

▪︎ Knights: hunger and heatstroke

Characters - See our sample!

Zorban—a brave and fearless explorer, styling himself as an adventurer, seeking to search the stars. He is less interested in fame and glory and more interested in what lies over the next hill.

Xorasnas—a hopeless romantic, she falls in and out of love but is intrigued by these things called ‘flowers’.

Ysi—a drunkard who is a genius mechanic and knows his way around crystals.

Xanath—this is his third mission. He has failed to graduate. His desire is to colonise a world

Yiyi—a student officer, who believes she knows what’s best for everyone and she’ll prove it