Hiyo guys!!

 First, I'd like to apologize for our guild not being active over the past few months. I attempted to step down in August as my duties in the RP section increased, but that never went through, lol. SO INSTEAD I WOULD LIKE TO CREATE A WRITING AND ROLEPLAYING GUILD COUNCIL. As I have a billion ideas, but I really lack in the 'carry through' department ((it's a personality thing x_x starts projects and doesn't finish. UNLESS THEY CAN BE COMPLETED ALL AT ONCE in which case I'm fantastico)), I would love it if some people stepped up to help me out in making this Writing and Roleplaying Guild an active, informative, and fun area! 


Anyone can apply for a position on the Council, though those considering themselves Journeymen or Masters might get a bit of a boost in more writing-intensive roles. Read through the open positions below and please send the application at the end to me via PM!

Positions Available:

Contest Host - This person will be in charge of creating, posting, and hosting monthly Writing Contests. 
----A Writing Contest is your standard once-a-month, 1000-words or less, anonymous-entry, theme-driven friendly writing competition between our guild members, where members submit entries (up to two types: one sailor moon themed, one original work themed) and vote on which entry is their favorite. In the spoiler below are the rules that we've been using.

Writing Contest Graphics:

Challenge Host - This person will be in charge of creating, posting, and hosting Writing Challenges and Contests.
----A Writing Challenge is more a personal challenge - there is no voting for a winner, it's just everyone piles in and shares what they have for a particular challenge. These can be themed writing challenge (like a contest, but different length, different difficulty levels, and a "tighter" theme - it should be different from the contest), or word-count challenges, activity challenges, accountability challenges, etc., but they are, again, personally driven and not a competition.  We can totally put together adorable little buttons for people to display how many challenges they've been in ^^.


Workshop Host - This person would be in charge of helping me put together Writing and Roleplaying Workshops for Guild members. We had some success with our Otaku Creation Workshop for AU April, ((I was kicking myself when November started - I mean OC October? I HAVE FAILED YOU ALL)) and I would love for the guild to host other themed workshops! ... We just need to come up with themes ^^'.  The Host wouldn't necessarily have to be an expert in any of the workshop areas - they would be in charge of fishing around for the next workshop focus, and then organizing/finding the panel of writers and roleplayers that consider themselves knowledgeable in that field, and set up the date and time(s) for the Workshop.  They could decide on the place and type of workshop,(in a board in the forum, in an all-text skype chat, in a face-time skype chat where our panelists "phone in", etc.), and would MC the event, moving things forward, stopping for questions, comments, concerns, etc.  It'd be your show! 

----Workshop ideas that immediately come to mind are, for the Writing aspect: World Building (cultures, maps, sci-fi/fantasy, etc), Character Creation, keeping a deadline, making a relateable character, keeping interest, etc. // for Roleplaying, some ideas: Profile Creation, folding ideas together in a roleplay (roleplay multiple perspectives vs. roleplay straightforward storyline / character driven vs story driven), regaining interest, ways to promote activity, etc. 



Writing Apprenticeship Matchmaker - This person would be like what Sailor Jupiter is for our GC Mentors/Mentees; she matches two people together and gets them started off on the right foot together for our Apprenticeship Program. She would keep up with the apprentices on a one-on-one basis to make sure they are being helped by their buddy (and make any buddy swaps as necessary to make sure that needs are being met), and if they feel they do not want or need to be part of the program anymore, this person would find a piece the apprentice worked on with their buddy during their time together and pass it forward to be used in their Graduation Ceremony from "Apprentice" to "Journeyman".  

----But it doesn't stop there. This person would be involved with the Workshop Host to get the Journeymen/Masters and their Apprentices involved with our Workshops, perhaps even starting a weekly calendar of themes that our pairs could work with, and posting those themes in a thread here in the Guild. For example, like the first week of December could be the themed "Creating an Interesting Description", and the second could be "Writing with an Active Voice", and the third could be "Keeping it Simple - cutting the fat out of our sentences", etc.; each month would not need to have completely unique themes -- that'd drive anyone crazy trying to come up with 52 writing tip themes -- so you could totally reuse week themes when you need to. ^^ I think a system like this would encourage activity and conversation between the Apprentice and their Writing Buddy and could produce some really interesting works ((which could then be posted in that month's theme thread )). 

Buttons for Apprentices and their Mentors:

Game Host - This person would be in charge of Writing games. We don't roleplay in this area, but games like Popcorn, Thesaurus, keep-a-word drop-a-word, rhyming, etc., are fun and cute ways to keep active in writing between and during projects. ^^ Keeps the mind sharp and amused. XD  I'd like someone to take over making and hosting games in the Writing and Roleplaying Guild to keep it active and fresh!