Jan. 8th, 2009

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[livejournal.com profile] bard_bloom also writes the fantasy serial "Sythyry's Journal" under the username [livejournal.com profile] sythyry. This is one of the earliest and longest-running fictional journals. There is no request for money (other than the fact that it serves as bait for the excellent World Tree gaming handbook) so technically it is not cyberfunded creativity. However, it's exactly the same kind of material that some people use for CFC, and the current discussion is highly relevant. The poll asks whether to continue the journal in its current form, or start a new journal with the same characters, or do something totally different.
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Tuesday's poetry fishbowl had some interesting features. Several prompts came in quickly. The first two stuck together and produced a set of four connected poems about the same setting, a far-future North America flooded up through Nebraska and the Dakotas, inhabited by sentient cockroaches and manta rays. Eventually I did catch up with the rest of the prompts. I started at 12:15 and stopped at 11 PM, so that's about 9 hours with breaks. I wrote 14 poems. There were 42 comments including mine, and 10 people sent prompts. Two of the fishbowl poems have already been posted:

"Biofare"
"For Want Of..."

This month's donors are: [livejournal.com profile] ellenmillion, [livejournal.com profile] arielstarshadow, and [livejournal.com profile] minor_architect. Their support is greatly appreciated. There will be a poll to select poetry funded by general donations.

This month someone posted prompts referring to short stories. I did get the fascinating Nebraska poems out of that, but it's a little more time-consuming than is practical for a fishbowl, so I'm not likely to repeat the exercise. It was interesting to see how prompts stuck together, though -- once I had that setting in mind, with its native species, I could look at other prompts and try to imagine how they might attach to the current motifs.

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