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Nate-Clone has been writing on the sub for around half a year now, and in that time has really thrown themself into the community. They regularly post prompts as well as writing for them, and always welcome feedback as they strive to improve. They’re also active on our community discord, joining campfire events and giving feedback to others as they also strive to improve their critiquing skills. Their stories often have a strong narrative voice as well as a sense of humour, and are always an enjoyable read. You can find more of their work on their profile and I definitely recommend you do. While you’re there, why not leave a comment or toss out an upvote?

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Happy Thursday writing friends!

This week is going to be great! Mixing metaphors and making things and characters work together that may not otherwise? Yes! Weee!!! Good luck and good words!

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Bonus:

(These constraints are not required! If your story is better for not including them, please do what’s best for your work!)

Constraint: (10 pts)

Your story should include a malaphor. Please note at the end of your post if you’ve included this constraint.

Word of the Day: (5 pts)

hubbub/hub·bub/ˈhəbəb/

noun

• a chaotic din caused by a crowd of people.

• a busy, noisy situation.

Here's how Theme Thursday works:

• Use the tag [TT] when submitting prompts that match this week’s theme.

Theme Thursday Rules

• Leave one story or poem between 100 and 500 words as a top-level comment. Use to check your word count.

• Deadline: 7:59 AM CST next Wednesday

• No serials, established universes, or stories that have been written for another prompt or feature here on WP

• No previously written content

• Any stories not meeting these rules will be disqualified from rankings and will not be read at campfires

• Does your story not fit the Theme Thursday rules? You can post your story as a [PI] with your work when the TT post is 3 days old!

• to help your favorites rise to the top of the ranks! I also post the form to submit votes for Theme Thursday winners on every week! Join and get notified when the form is open for voting!

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Theme Thursday Discussion Section:

• Discuss your thoughts on this week’s theme, or share your ideas for upcoming themes.

Campfire

• On Wednesdays we host Theme Thursday Campfire on the voice lounge. Join us to read your story aloud, hear other stories, and have a blast discussing writing!

• Time: I’ll be there 7 pm CST and we’ll begin within about 15 minutes.

• Don’t forget to sign up for a campfire slot on discord. If you don’t sign up, you won’t be put into the pre-set order and we can’t accommodate any time constraints. We don’t want you to miss out on outstanding feedback, so get to discord and use that !TT command!

• There’s a Theme Thursday role on the Discord server, so make sure you grab that so you’re notified of all Theme Thursday-related news!

As a reminder to all of you writing for Theme Thursday: the interpretation is completely up to you! I love to share my thoughts on what the theme makes me think of but you are by no means bound to these ideas! I love when writers step outside their comfort zones or think outside the box, so take all my thoughts with a grain of salt if you had something entirely different in mind.

(This week’s quote is from J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

Ranking Categories:

• Word of the Day - 5 points

• Bonus Constraint - 10 points

• Weekly Challenge - 25 points for not using the theme word - points off for uses of synonyms. The point of this is to exercise setting a scene, description, and characters without leaning on the definition. Not meeting the spirit of this challenge only hurts you! This includes titles and explanations/author's notes.

• Actionable Feedback - 15 points for each story you give detailed crit to, up to 30 points

• Nominations - 10 points for each nomination your story receives

• Ali’s Ranking - 50 points for first place, 40 points for second place, 30 points for third place, 20 points for fourth place, 10 points for fifth, plus regular nominations (On weeks that I participate, I do not weight my votes, but instead nominate just like everyone else.)

• Voting - 10 points for submitting your favorites via (form will be open after the deadline has passed.)

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