*** November 2018 Challenge: Map a Story ***

[Gidde]

In honor of National Novel Writing Month, this month's challenge is Map A Story.

If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, here's your chance to make a map for your project. If you are not, tell us a story with your map!

This is a challenge that could go off the rails in a couple of ways, so here are some ground rules:

• The focus here is the map, so please don't post your entire novel. For all of us writers, this is a great chance to practice our pitch!
• It doesn't necessarily have to be your story, but it must be your original map. Please respect copyrights.
• You may already have a map for your story; this one must be started and completed during the challenge. If you already have a world map, create a region, a city, or a scene's "encounter map".

As always, title your thread: November 2018 Challenge: Your Title Here

And don't forget to use the ### Latest WIP ### button for each new upload, so that the thumbnail scraper gets your latest and greatest.

Now get mapping! The challenge will end on or around 8pm EST on November 30.

[Jaxilon]

yikes...overly busy month for me already but I have been putting off doing a map of my world for a while now. Can I get it all done in the limited time I have, hmmm, not likely.

[Gidde]

Sure you can Who needs sleep anyway?

[MapMappingMapped]

I always say I can't get the motivation to work hard on a map that I don't much care about. But my novel world? I couldn't love it more! I'm still considering, but if I enter, I'll either map the world that is most precious to me, or make a new one along with the short story (if I make up a story, the map should soon matter enough to me...huh?huh?)

[Kellerica]

A very, very tempting challenge! I'll try to find the time to enter.

[Jaxilon]

Yeah but I already know I'm out of pocket the last week of the month which is seriously problematic. Oh the agony of it all...why isn't this a two month challenge?

[aeshnidae]

Oooh, I like this idea! I'm so torn...do I map Sir Arthur Bryne's charge across the mountains to battle the Dark Fey and save his prince (backstory for my D&D world), or do I dive in and finish up Roland's journey from the Dark Tower novels, which I've been dying to complete? (I have a shiny silver compass from the first part of Roland's journey.) Decisions, decisions.

[Gidde]

Ohh, I want to hear about the first one, sounds interesting!!

[aeshnidae]

Ohh, I want to hear about the first one, sounds interesting!!

I'm leaning towards that one. I can always do another Dark Tower map later, plus I have a song/poem for Arthur Bryne's charge! I came up with a melody and everything, but then realized it can be sung to the tune of the Gilligan's Island theme, so I went with that for the purposes of the D&D game. The song contained clues for my players, which they did not realize in the slightest, but their PCs did enjoy singing it drunkenly in taverns.

[Gidde]

Hahaha that is awesome!! I've never gotten MY players to drunkenly sing in a tavern, you must have a really fun bunch!