Conner

@TheDarkHorse if I was free enough to find an hour to write the task I would be down (gonna have to find some time to write entries in more than half an hour)

Hey everyone!
          
          As some of you might know, I've been considering a return to Gamemaking for a while. I have an idea for a somewhat new structure for Games (heavily inspired by competitive reality tv shows) , but I want to make sure people would be interested in joining first. 
          
          So please let me know if you would (or would not, that helps just as much) be interested in joining a Games
          
          - Set in Panem
          - With eleven tasks (strictly following one week per task)
          - Where you compete anonymously (the Gamemaker and voters know your tribute and your entries, but not your name)
          - Explicitly focused on one particular skill each task. 
          - With detailed critiques for some of the top and bottom entries each task
          - With a bottom two each task, decided by the Gamemaker, then voted on by readers. 
          - With a winner each task who receives a small bonus for the next task. 
          
          Please let me know! Logistically I have most of it figured out, but don't hesitate with any questions, comments or concerns. I promise my feelings won't be hurt!

@TheDarkHorse HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!  Hope it was a great one! :D

Today is my seventeenth birthday! When I joined this website, I was just a little twelve year old who really wanted to read the Hunger Games and had zero intentions of writing. (I didn't realize what this app was about, obviously). 
          
          I've met so many wonderful people since I've joined, I've been friends with some of you guys for longer than most of my friends in real life. I'm so glad I get to celebrate this birthday with you all, since without you all I'm not sure if I would have made it. I love you all so much. 

Hey everyone! The account that I'm President of, @WelcomeToPanem , is hosting a Writer Games that will open this coming Sunday! 
          
          Writer Games: Tomorrow's Tributes will be a mini-Games focused on the Reaping Tournament in District Two, deciding who will volunteer for the next Games. There will only be five tasks, and sixteen participants, but the participants will receive certain perks for the following Games on the account, with the Victor receiving a special prize. They're all planned out, and I promise they'll be tons of fun!
          
          Here's the link to check it out 
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/61276296-writer-games-tomorrow%27s-tributes (the cover was made by yours truly :) )

Hello!
          
          As many of you are aware, I'm in the process (a very slow one, but still) of writing my first semi-original story, The Culling. As it goes, there should be an update at least once every two weeks, hopefully once a week. As I update one chapter, I'll also try and edit the one before, so that way it doesn't get too overwhelming at the end.
          
          That being said, I've just finished editing the first chapter (fixing whatever grammar mistakes I could find,  rewriting the last three paragraphs, small changes throughout) so if you haven't read it yet, I would really appreciate you reading and leaving a comment for me :)
          
          The next update should be coming in an hour or so, and will definitely come some time tonight!
          
          Thank you :)

CONNER, for some reason it won't let me post my review of your first chapter of the Culling on the book itself, so here it is:
          
          Okay, so over all I enjoyed this, which honestly surprised me because I went into it thinking "Oh joy, yet another variant on the Hunger Games..." And while it most definitely is just another variant on the Hunger Games, it is at least an interesting and well written one. 
          
          I really have no complaints as far as grammar and spelling go, so kudos to you there. My only complaints come from the fact that the drama was so downplayed that I didn't actually care about Malachi, which is unfortunate because I want to care about Malachi. 
          
          It's challenging to walk the line between so much drama that it's laughable and so little drama that it's dull, but I'm sure that with editing you could do that. 
          
          I have another complaint, which is extremely nit-picky and mostly just personal preference: I didn't like the last line of the chapter at all. What on earth did the size of the apples have to do with anything? Because Malachi did the nice thing and ate the smaller apple he was being punished? I could see using this line if Malachi had decided to be a jerk and was all "so what if my brother's hungry?" and ate the bigger apple, so then you could maybe work it in as a guilt thing. As it currently stands though, this line seems really pointless to me. 
          
          If this were an entry, I think it would be my favorite of the ones I've scored so far, or at least very close to my favorite. I'd score you a solid 10/12. If you managed to work in a bit more emotion and a more meaningful final line, that could easily move up to an 11 or even a 12, depending on how much you made me feel. 
          
          Keep being fabulous.

A little poem thingy inspired my Author Games: The Last Cannon by @HeadOnJackwards Enjoy!
          
          Just as the setting sun travels west as the day goes by, you too must go west. West. West. Forever west, west, west. 
          
          Forever in a circle, forever rising and falling, trapped in the endless cycle of the day and night. Of light and dark. Of east and west. But you only know west, west, west. Go west, west, west. 
          
          The night sky grows dark and twinkling with lights, but you do not see it, for you are trapped in perpetual day. Heading west, west, west. Chasing the setting sun, heading west, west, west.
          
          Your eyes grow heavy, tired of the endless cycle, yet you know you cannot escape. Unless. You rest, rest, rest. No more west, west, west.

Humans threw the world into disarray -  wars, environmental disasters, rising temperatures and rising tides. After the dust settled, the waters stopped rising, and the fires stopped burning, humans were only left on one continent. Being all that remained, they discarded their old identities, splitting themselves up into sectors, each with their own responsibilities to help the nation, and named their country All That Remains. In order to limit population growth, and thus resource consumption, strict laws were put into place, each couple only allowed to have a maximum of two children, and the Culling. Every year, two children below reproductive age are taken from each sector, and forced to fight to the death until only one remains.
          
          Except none of it is real.
          
          Each of the thirty two children taken into this year's Culling were born in a lab in the real world, so deep and secretive that only the most select know about. As soon as they were born, they were entered into an elaborate simulation – the world of All That Remains. Their friends, their family, their homes the Culling are all fake simulations. Their entire life is one big experiment - to see how ordinary people react when forced into a life-or-death situation. 
          
          How will the subjects react? How would you?
          
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          My Camp NaNo project - The Culling - should be posted tomorrow! I hope you guys are as excited for this as I am. I've done so much planning for this story, I can't wait to actually write it, and for you guys to actually read it!

Sixteen years ago today, at 12:26 PM, a little tiny human that would eventually become me popped into the world. He was screaming and crying and got peed on only a few minutes after his birth (looking at you, Evan). 
          
          A little over three years ago, that same human, not quite me yet but he was getting there, found an app called Wattpad because he was trying to find a place where he could read books for free. He made an account, and this incredible journey began. 
          
          Today, on my sixteenth birthday, although it might be sappy, I'd like to thank all of you guys for making me me, cause that's really the greatest present of all. (I warned you guys it would get sappy.) Whether you guys are still here or not, if we are best friends or we hate each other, if we've talked since the moment I got my account, we've just met, or if we don't talk anymore, I'd like to thank you guys for the amazing present that is the improved Conner. 
          
          So much has happened just over the past year alone, and it would take too long for me to try to acknowledge everyone I've met, and everything I've done. However, I would like to point out that @WelcomeToPanem, my joint Gamemaking account, has a Games opening today in about nine and a half hours. If you really want to get me a present, since I can't give you my home address, I would love it if you guys joined those Games. 
          
          Thank you again for everything,
          Conner 16.0