Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the thirtieth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, June 14-Sunday, June 15. The theme is "Places That Matter." (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.

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Open Playground: Schrodinger's Heroes

[ysabetwordsmith]

Everyone is welcome to play with Schrodinger's Heroes. (If you're new to this project, you can start here.) This is an imaginary fandom for an apocryphal television show. A team of heroes practice quantum physics and other hijinks to protect Earth against invaders from other dimensions. The team is racially, sexually, and culturally diverse. Because the subject naturally deals with alternate realities, it lends itself well to crossovers and alternate-universe interpretations; you can use my version or make up your own.

Open Playground: Torn World

[ysabetwordsmith]

Torn World is a science fantasy shared world available for writing and creating in. Sea monsters! Giant furred unicorns! Crystals that control time! People of changing gender, or no gender!

For more information about the setting, prompters should start here and contributors should start here. For specific information about submitting your work to our world continuity, rights and allowances, please see our contributor's rules. We have a space for sharing non-canon work on our site, so don't be shy about jumping in, even if you aren't familiar with the setting yet!

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Image Prompts:
Autumn forest
White picket fence
Alien homeworld

Title Prompts:
"The Stones That Remember"
"At the Edge of the Nebula"
"In the Unicorn Forest"

Text Prompts:
* To know the ground that will be your grave.
* Monuments we make to mark special places.
* Trying to find a place that you don't know where it is.

[chordatesrock]

People who think in places.

Places that have their own living beingness, maybe sentient or maybe not, or maybe too alien to tell.

Things that work or can happen only in certain places.

Magic like water, existing in vast oceans, fleeing from deserts (and yet always returning), and how that affects the ecosystems and geopolitics.

Church.

[anke]

The heart of the home is the kitchen.

Someone's "happy place".

Your former home has changed.

People passing at a place of transit (e.g. crossroads, train stations, harbours, airports...)

[rootsofthestories]

The secret places in your heart

The places you find refuge in.

Safe places for you that are unsafe places for others

[perfectworry]

• "sometimes, our secret countries intersect"
• "I am in love with this city."
• friends who meet up in an alternate dimension/dreamworld
• living a double life: one in this world, one in another
• "here, I am surrounded by holy places"

Prompts

[pointedulac]

*A field that grows the bulk of food for a community/village.

*An endangered environment that's home to a mystical creature.

*A business' or park's last day before it's sold/paved over/built over.

*A supernatural or otherworldly library.

Volunteering writer

[dialecticdreamer]

Hello, I am Dialecticdreamer, a new writer. I’d like to “get my feet wet” with this project, so I welcome prompts for original writing (I don’t write prOn because I’m /bad/ at it-- so bad that I consider it cruelty to the characters involved!).

Give me a prompt this weekend and I will return at least 100 words. Free.

For samples of my writing, the “fiction” tag will get you there- and I posted the second part of my current story a few minutes ago.

For a sample of demifiction set in Ysabetwordsmith’s “Polychrome Heroics” verse, go to You Tube. I /love/ demifiction, but with a 100 word limit /and/ a weekend, I can better accommodate a “news blurb” for your world.

prompts

[alexseanchai]

"We are each of us an island,
With our separate rocky shores,
But an island's not a prison --
That's what men make bridges for." —Seanan McGuire, "Cartography"

"This place is too important to [be/have] a tourist trap."

[mdlbear]

We called it Grand Central Starport.
It was our home for almost four decades --
We had parties, concerts, children, friends,
Laughter and tears, love and music.

We added a bedroom for each of our daughters,
And a ramp when Colleen lost her mobility.
There were more computers than people,
Most of the time. We lined the walls with books.

I thought we would grow old and retire there.

It's up for sale now.

Prompts

[dialecticdreamer]

Where adulthood begins. (Physical location, please.)

Sacred waters (any size body of water)

Where rivers die (like the Rio Grande, which no longer reaches the Gulf of Mexico)

Dreaming places. (Physical locations? I dare you!)

House

[ravan]

When I was little
To be an adult
Meant college, job, house and family

Fast forward decades
A cyclic economy
Skyrocketing prices makes house a dream

The year 13
I got married
Got lucky enough to buy a house

I'm over 50
Yet only now
Can I consider myself a full adult