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Crowdfunding Creative Jam
Welcome to the thirty-fourth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, October 18-Sunday, October 19. The theme is "Paradigm Shifting Without a Clutch." (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
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.
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Hnedu had just gained his fourth adult tooth, marking him as ready for Seshat's bounties. He had today been allowed to carry the vat of damp reeds, each as wide as his thumb and as long as his arm from elbow to wrist, but so thin he could see a glow when he held it toward Ra's all-seeing eye. He had placed his bare feet on the brick floor of the main workroom for the first time, leaving behind the cluster of boys whose bare-shaven heads even now bent over a new bundle of reeds as they stripped off the green husk.
He could hear his master kick out of his sandals, and nearly jumped in shock. Why, he was practically /naked/! Hnedu held still, lifting the paddle so carefully that none of the liquid spilled onto the floor. Not even a drop. His breath eased out as his heart slowed back to normal.
Mornim leaned over the copper vat, nodding to himself. He was as wrinkled as a date, and nearly as dark, but his eyes glowed with secrets. He moved to stand behind Hnedu, lifting up the painted frame, for the first time allowing Hnedu to touch the pale linen, sun-bleached and taut.
“Today, Hnedu, you will make parchment. When it is dry, you will write a prayer of gratitude to Seshet, burn it, and those ashes will be shaped into your first scroll along with the reeds. Attend me well, boy, for this task is not for the indolent or foolish. Scribes have exacted terrible, terrible punishments on those who make faulty paper.”
Hnedu swallowed hard, fighting back the urge to flinch. He was too low-born to ever become a scribe, but Mornim taught him a new prayer every day. Every day a new symbol. He would make paper, and when he had finished his first scroll, he would be a man.
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Worth mentioning: Parchment comes from animal skins. Papyrus comes from reeds, thence our word "paper."
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Is repairing that possible?
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge
Comments are not editable after someone's replied, but you could repost on your DW or wherever and fix it in the process.
Re: Prompt /FILLS/-yesterday's cutting edge