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.
Do Languages Dream?
Date: 2015-01-18 06:16 pm (UTC)In his dreams, the lecture hall was full, words flowing like a brisk, swirling windstorm. Students whispered, the instructor delivered jokes and information and meandering asides, never mind that his thin Korean frame marked him as an outsider to the cluster of milk-faced students whose hair shone in yellows and reds, with few of the darker hues of brown, and none of the instructor's midnight-black.
In her dreams, the train clacked pleasantly as two women struck up a conversation over very different types of crochet, one held all in the dominant hand, the ball of thread tucked securely in a pocket in deference to the crowded car, while the other used a tidy, two-handed pattern to keep track of both yarn and project, the fine wool becoming a gossamer cloud beneath nimble fingers. They stumbled a bit, needing some specialized words which neither had, but a little careful description in the sturdy, brisk common language soon had them comparing favorite patterns and decidedly unfavorite problems in their shared hobby.
In his dreams, the cluster of children, having met only a few minutes before, watched each other, searching for commonalities in their dark hair and dark skin, clustering even amongst themselves by criteria which could mean family resemblances, or simply tribal ones. The instructor held out a bowl of familiar fruits, and began the lesson without using any of the children's native languages. At the end of the first lesson, the children were clustered by the number of siblings they had, jumbled and diverse as brightly-colored buttons in a jar.
In her dreams, the raging travel-headache had eased only after she'd nearly slept the clock around. She'd expected that, but not the desperate homesickness a swirl of white on red had brought, the colors and backdrop of a soda logo rendered incomprehensible in the native print. It took three hours to work her way carefully on foot from the hotel to a bookstore, but dotted among the hundreds of people she'd passed were a handful standing out like beacons to help her along with their gestures and encouraging smiles and pantomimed directions. Tucked among the travel books was a single, slim volume, offering the hope of a common tongue.
In the ethereal synchronicity born of human thoughts and hopes, Novial dreamed. Esperanto had napped, but never truly slumbered, and the infant Na'vi scampered unsteadily between its cousins' realms, flitting from Interlingua to the diverse cluster of more than a dozen sibling-tongues created by Tolkein.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Novial
Re: Do Languages Dream?
Date: 2015-01-29 07:11 pm (UTC)It's lovely!
Re: Do Languages Dream?
Date: 2015-01-29 07:14 pm (UTC)Feel free to jump in with prompts for the February Creative Jam, or remind me of something you'd like to see expanded or continued.