Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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crowdfundingWelcome to the thirty-sixth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, January 17-Sunday, January 18. The theme is "Dreaming and Waking." 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.
fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-18 07:12 am (UTC)In dreams, the starving eat their fill of meat;
Dream water tries to slake a dreamer's thirst.
Though they in waking life be cruelly cursed,
In dreams they find they have enough to eat
And friends that every day will come to greet
And ask how well they fare and what they need.
In dreams they find that all their wounds are nursed
By kindly, tender folk who are well-versed
In healing arts, and touches sugar-sweet.
They wake and want to be with dreamborn friends,
But find that all they dreamed has disappeared.
Though some of what they dream may well be real,
The changes made must meet with sudden ends,
Their craft undone, as daylight must reveal.
But in your dreams, you'll find the Lord oft sends
Ideas to make by day of solid steel.
Re: fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-18 11:30 am (UTC)Re: fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-19 05:54 am (UTC)Re: fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-19 06:31 am (UTC)Re: fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-19 06:36 am (UTC)* For any rhymed, metered verse you should check those aspects. Rhymes should be perfect unless you are off-rhyming on purpose in a pattern. Meter should have a consistent numbers of syllables, although you may vary the stress and it's okay to have different syllables per line in a pattern (i.e. 8-7-8-7). Don't be afraid to count syllables on your fingers, I do that too.
* In poetry, charm outweighs technical skill, so if you can capture the mood then the poem usually works. You can learn technical skills as you go along. Learning how to find a good theme or tell a good story is much harder to learn if you haven't got it.
* Go to my Memories section and I've got several entries about poetry that you may find useful:
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ysabetwordsmith&keyword=poetry&filter=all
Re: fill - how to carry something between dreaming and waking
Date: 2015-01-19 07:07 am (UTC)