Free Sketch Day

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Today's Free Sketch Day is now
closed; comments will now be screened.  The images from today's FSD will
be gathered into a separate entry on my blog.  Thank you to all who participated!

Good afternoon!  It's Free Sketch Day at my blog again.

Come by and leave your one-word prompts, and I will create a free quick sketch for you!

http://shadows-gallery.livejournal.com/21247.html

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

 I have posted a followup discussion about the Crowdfunding Creative Jam over on LiveJournal.

Crowdfunding Creative Jam followup & poll

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Okay, we've done the first two Crowdfunding Creative Jam sessions:

October 17-18 (Monday-Tuesday)
There was 1 open playground, 9 people posting prompts, and at least 8 pieces were created.

November 20-21 (Sunday-Monday)
There were 2 open playgrounds, 6 people posting prompts, and at least 7 pieces were created.

What did you think of the experience overall? 

Ideally, I'd like to open this up for other folks to manage sessions in different months.  Please comment if you're interested in doing that.  You don't need to think up themes -- you can pick one from the poll, as there were a number of very popular ones.

Finally, we need to decide about the timing of the sessions, since we tried two different versions.
[Poll #1799211]

Crowdfounding in China

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

An interesting article about the Chinese approach to crowdfounded writing.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2011/nov/04/china-future-publishing