Fellow Scholars and Scribes! I bid you welcome to the third annual SCRIBE SPOTLIGHT! π mosh pit ensues π
Each year we take a month to celebrate and commemorate our most diligent and talented authors. πΊ
All quotes in this showcase are from the spotlighted creator's works.
Our Scribe of the Year for 2024 returns in a more modest, yet equally impressive setting. A lover of sci-fi to the core. And a screenwriter turned author. It is with great pleasure, ladies and gentlemen, that I present to you... π₯π₯π₯
π killerwot π
@killerwot has written so much in the past two years that it borders insanity. His improvements as a Scribe are vast and numerous. His penmanship has improved in quality by leaps and bounds. All the while, his ambitious vision has remained epic in scope.
He has been one of the most prolific Scribes, contributing work after work to the community. As a Scholar he tends to focus on the positive, offering encouragement and seeing the good in every work. A ray of sunshine that I hope never fades, or I guess, a planet-destroying beam that actually just wants to heal people instead. // you will admit that that metaphor worked...
The first piece we are looking at is the The Captains Wager. A very short piece that allows me to talk about one of Kills' central improvements - his use of dialogue.
As someone who has been reading this man's work for over 2 years now, I can tell you that dialogue was never a problem for our boy here. However, how it is presented, and how it is incorporated into the story, has seen a great deal of improvement. Dialogue is not just about Person A outwits Person B. But about how that dynamic shapes the story and world of these characters. In that sense, @killerwot has learned how to let the dialogue serve the story and the world. Not just be cool for cool's sake.
Captain Vance stood up, as onlookers of his immediate crew turned in their stations to watch him. Thirne and his small fireteam also watched by the door. As he made it to the blank wall oppisite his own station he pressed against one of the panels, and automatically it opened, revealing the Captains armory.
The second story is The Wind. Here, we see Kills' (I know you love all the nicknames I am giving to these people) shows his notable improvement in the structure of his works. The paragraphs and how the beats flow into one another. As someone who is relatively new to writing, he has learned this important skill feverishly fast.
Besk was a world synonymous with storms, in the few years she had been here she witnessed no less than 10 major storms, which were considered little more than a minor annoyance to the natives. "Work must still be done," her supervisor told her during her first major storm. All she wanted to do was clock off a little bit earlier than usual..
At the end of the day, @killerwot is just a good bloke who loves good stories. Always there to praise his fellow Scholars he has never given up on his epic tales and scopes. I hope he continues to improve, and of course, to share his master plans with us here. Kudos, my dude! π
