Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the twenty-fourth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, November 16-Sunday, November 17. The theme is "Seasonal Changes." (Visit the Creative Jam over on LiveJournal.)


Crowdfunding Creative Jam

Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.

Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.

Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.

Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.

Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.

Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.

Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.

Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the twenty-fourth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, November 16-Sunday, November 17. The theme is "Seasonal Changes." (Visit the Creative Jam over on Dreamwidth.)


Crowdfunding Creative Jam

Everyone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a specific creator, but everyone else may still use that prompt if they wish. Prompts may specify a particular character/world/etc. but creators may use the prompt for something else anyway and post the results. Prompters are still encouraged to post mostly prompts that anyone could use anywhere, as this maximizes the chance of having creators make something based on your prompt. Please title your comment "Prompt" or "Prompts" when providing inspiration so these are easy to find.

Prompt responses may also be treated as prompts and used for further inspiration. For example, a prompt may lead to a sketch which leads to a story, and so on. This kind of cascading inspiration is one of the most fun things about a collective jam session.

Everyone is eligible to use prompts, and everyone who wants to use a given prompt may do so, for maximum flexibility of creator choice in inspiration. You do not have to post a "Claim" reply when you decide to use a prompt, but this does help indicate what is going on so that other prompters can spread out their choice of prompts if they wish.

Creators are encouraged, but not required, to post at least one item free. Likewise, sharing a private copy of material with the prompter is encouraged but not required. Creative material resulting from prompts should be indicated in a reply to the prompt, with a link to the full content elsewhere on the creator's site (if desired); a brief excerpt and/or description of the material may be included in the reply (if desired). It helps to title your comment "Prompt Filled" or something like that so these are easy to identify. There is no time limit on responding to prompts. However, creators are encouraged to post replies sooner rather than later, as the attention of prompters will be highest during and shortly after the session.

Some items created from prompts may become available for sponsorship. Some creators may offer perks for donations, linkbacks, or other activity relating to this project. Check creator comments and links for their respective offerings.

Prompters, creators, and bystanders are expected to behave in a responsible and civil manner. If the moderators have to drag someone out of the sandbox for improper behavior, we will not be amused. Please respect other people's territory and intellectual property rights, and only play with someone else's characters/setting/etc. if you have permission. (Fanfic/fanart freebies are okay.) If you want to invite folks to play with something of yours, title the comment something like "Open Playground" so it's easy to spot. This can be a good way to attract new people to a shared world or open-source project, or just have some good non-canon fun.

Boost the signal! The more people who participate, the more fun this will be. Hopefully we'll see activity from a lot of folks who regularly mention their projects in this community, but new people are always welcome. You can link to this session post or to individual items created from prompts, whatever you think is awesome enough to recommend to your friends.

Setting Rental Sale and a general update

[k_a_webb]

It's been a while since I posted here, but last time I did James was dealing with some medical issues that we thought had been fixed. However the problem has returned and he's back on antibiotics, that don't seem to be doing much, as well as taking diclofenac, which did seem to be helping before, although he was also on tamsulosin and I have a feeling it was a mix of the two that was making him feel better. Unfortunately we aren't sure, so it's going to be a case of seeing what works best for him, because there is a chance, which we were told before, that it isn't going to go away. Sorry for being so vague, but he doesn't like to talk too much about it, so it would be rude for me to. Basically it makes it hard for him to stand, sit, or lay down, and, unsurprisingly, it makes him exceedingly grumpy. Yesterday was a good day, but he was still uncomfortable.

So, to bring in some extra income, I'm having a setting rental sale. One of the donor house rentals has sold and I'm waiting for hear from someone else to see what it was they wanted. I'm also open for commissions, for stories set in my worlds and stories that aren't, and I have a couple of slots open for ghostwriting fiction. The more money I can bring in the better I'll feel, because I want to be helping him, which is something I have been able to do recently thanks to helping my landlady with her doggy day care business, and I really want the website to be bringing in more. I would love to sell the three setting rental, as that would be the shopping covered for the next month. Honestly, at the moment, as long as I'm earning about £150 a month from my writing I'll be able to cover my half of the rent and all the groceries. I've started monetising the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments with that aim in mind, as well as doing more work on the ebooks, so hopefully things will start picking up.

If I can earn that much this month I really would appreciate it. My plan is to extend this year's advent story anyway, but if I manage to reach my goal this month then what I'll do is post some extras for it. Depending on how much I earn I might even continue posting after Christmas Day. If anyone can think of anything that might help me then please let me know. The more help I have the more likely I am to manage to do this, because if I can keep covering my half of the rent James is going to be able to stop worrying quite so much about what might happen in the future if he gets any worse.

Setting Rental Sale and a general update

[moonwolf1988.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I posted here, but last time I did James was dealing with some medical issues that we thought had been fixed. However the problem has returned and he's back on antibiotics, that don't seem to be doing much, as well as taking diclofenac, which did seem to be helping before, although he was also on tamsulosin and I have a feeling it was a mix of the two that was making him feel better. Unfortunately we aren't sure, so it's going to be a case of seeing what works best for him, because there is a chance, which we were told before, that it isn't going to go away. Sorry for being so vague, but he doesn't like to talk too much about it, so it would be rude for me to. Basically it makes it hard for him to stand, sit, or lay down, and, unsurprisingly, it makes him exceedingly grumpy. Yesterday was a good day, but he was still uncomfortable.

So, to bring in some extra income, I'm having a setting rental sale. One of the donor house rentals has sold and I'm waiting for hear from someone else to see what it was they wanted. I'm also open for commissions, for stories set in my worlds and stories that aren't, and I have a couple of slots open for ghostwriting fiction. The more money I can bring in the better I'll feel, because I want to be helping him, which is something I have been able to do recently thanks to helping my landlady with her doggy day care business, and I really want the website to be bringing in more. I would love to sell the three setting rental, as that would be the shopping covered for the next month. Honestly, at the moment, as long as I'm earning about £150 a month from my writing I'll be able to cover my half of the rent and all the groceries. I've started monetising the Case of the Counterfeit Enchantments with that aim in mind, as well as doing more work on the ebooks, so hopefully things will start picking up.

If I can earn that much this month I really would appreciate it. My plan is to extend this year's advent story anyway, but if I manage to reach my goal this month then what I'll do is post some extras for it. Depending on how much I earn I might even continue posting after Christmas Day. If anyone can think of anything that might help me then please let me know. The more help I have the more likely I am to manage to do this, because if I can keep covering my half of the rent James is going to be able to stop worrying quite so much about what might happen in the future if he gets any worse.