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Welcome to the 137th Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, October 19-Sunday, October 20. The theme is "Trees."

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.
ysabetwordsmith: (Crowdfunding butterfly ship)
[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
Welcome to the 107th Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, November 20-Sunday, November 21. The theme is "Nature."


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.
[identity profile] rathacat.livejournal.com
Hi everyone,

I'm Clare Bell, (Rathacat), author of the Ratha or Named series. Many of you on LJ have read and enjoyed these books, starting with Ratha's Creature and its sequels

This year I am realizing a long-held dream: adapting Ratha's Creature, the First Book of the Named, as a graphic novel. I am working with three very talented artsts, including Djinni (Tod Willis) here on LJ.

I am on this community because ysabetwordsmith saw my new Live Journal post and suggested that Crowdfunding Community would be a good place to post updates about this. Below is an announcement with more info about the project:

The Ratha Graphic Novel project continues to bound along its trail, jumping into 2013 with new announcements and accomplishments.

I am very proud to report that the Kickstarter page is now live at :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sheilaruth/rekindling-the-fire-rathas-creature-graphic-novel

Please help us realize the dream of a Ratha's Creature Graphic Novel by pledging on Kickstarter. You can also spread the word by sharing it on your social networks and blogs.

The artists ( Dani Long, Lew Lashmit, Tod Wills), Sheila Ruth, and I have been intensely involved in creating the various parts of this very critical portion of the project. These include the Kickstarter page text, a wonderful video, a striking sample character (Thakur) reference sheet, and an amazing sample graphic novel page, lettered and fully inked and colored. Every time I see this, I am knocked clean off my paws by the skill and dedication that everyone has showed in creating it!

This reinforces my belief that working with artists drawn from the Ratha fan community is working out well, far beyond our hopes. The unusual synergy and community I mentioned before continues to flourish, nurturing not only the participants but the spirit of the project. I hope this creative luminescence shines through via the Kickstarter page, encouraging interest, support and backing.

Our decision to choose three artists who could complement and back each other up has already shown that it was a wise choice. When one or more of the artists did experience a problem or disruption, another was immediately able to step in, minimizing delays, and smoothing out bumps in the trail.
This has given the project an unusual resilience and durability.

This ability was not confined just to the art. Everyone on the team jumped in with suggestions and ideas for the video, music, storyboards, the creation process and many other aspects. Before I release this latest announcement, I will be posting my draft on the Basecamp whiteboard site we use, expecting that it will be mercilessly and lovingly pummeled into a much better version.

I believe now more than ever that a team assembled in this manner, challenged and encouraged in the way we all have done, can grow an amazing maturity and strength that can bring it through adversity and complete high-quality work. This philosophy reaches out to the best in all involved. We are not only blazing a trail for developing the graphic novel itself, but for seeking the best possible way to mold and grow an alliance between exceptionally creative individuals. Again, I don't know of any other graphic novel that has been done in quite the same way (though, admittedly, there may be some).

Here is a list of the team's accomplishments so far:


Clare Bell has completely mapped out the story into rough storyboards.

We put out a call for art submissions, and selected the art team.

The entire team has begun collaborating, with an amazing synergy, using Basecamp as our online collaboration/project management tool.

The art team has been discussing big cat biology, prehistoric flora and fauna, California geography, characters, layout of the clan ground, and art techniques.

The team has made significant progress on developing character reference sheets.

Art tests to fine tune the techniques have been successful.

The team has done successful test runs of panel art created using our planned collaboration process, and based on the rough storyboards created by Clare.

Please visit the Kickstarter page and let us now what you think of it. We're pretty proud of it, and we hope you will enjoy what you see.

I also hope that the project catches the eye of an animation film company. I believe that the character designs are simple but striking enough to adapt well to 2 or 3D animation.

I will also be making more of an effort to post these progress updates on various sites every week at least (daily if possible), so keep watching!

Publicity links:

Art from the graphic novel and individual artists working on it:
http://www.imaginatorpress.com/kickstarter_project_gallery

The “Ratha's Challenge” gallery (different artists all doing one fan-art piece per day to support and publicize the Kickstarter) started by Seasaidh on Deviant Art:

http://sheilaruth.deviantart.com/favourites/53643563

And others:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sheilaruth/rekindling-the-fire-rathas-creature-graphic-novel
https://plus.google.com/106303987558495192835/posts
http://rathacat.deviantart.com/#/d5rhb3f
http://rathacat.deviantart.com/
http://www.facebook.com/clare.bell.750?ref=tn_tnmn
http://www.facebook.com/rathaseries
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[personal profile] moonvoice
I am contributing some original art to a crowdfunded book by the name of Losing Altitude,
which draws much needed attention to the plight of Endangered and Critically Endangered birds.
I am in the company of many wonderful artists, and it would be wonderful
if you could contribute to this project.
There will be hard-cover and soft-cover versions, with wonderful full bleed artwork and infographics, and depending on how much you pledge
you can get one with some extra awesome goodies.
Or you can just give a few dollars and wait for the book to come out! :)

THE LOSING ALTITUDE KICKSTARTER is HERE

Two of my pieces in the book:


Swift Parrot




Photo and scan under the cut. )


Puerto Rican Amazons




Photo and scan under the cut. )
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[personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
The February theme was "wild animals." Many prompts arrived early, with a few more trickling in later in the day. It was a lively month for prompts, with 22 people posting them. There were 59 comments. I worked from 12:15 PM to 12:30 AM, so about 10 hours 15 minutes, allowing for lunch and supper breaks.

I wrote 17 poems, plus one more several days later. Most of the poems were medium-long or long, with a few medium-short, and one each of short and epic. They were all free-verse, except for the extra. While some evolved from a single prompt, several stacked a lot of prompts together.

There were two new prompters: [personal profile] alicephilippa and Angel (by way of [personal profile] wyld_dandelyon). You have them to thank for the second freebie poem. Special thanks to [profile] my_partner_doug for managing the donation ticker. Special thanks to [personal profile] minor_architect for managing the linkback poem "Grit and Grace." You can also see the donor poll and the general poll following that poem to suggest what will happen next.

Donations were exceptionally generous this month -- the fishbowl sold out for the second time. Woohoo! We met the $150 goal and the $250 goal for free serial poems, so you got to pick two of those, which I'll post shortly. We met the $200 goal for a bonus fishbowl, which will happen on Tuesday, February 21. Voting is still open for which series to feature.


Read Some Poetry!
The following poems from the January 3, 2012 fishbowl have been posted:
"The Bear Spectacle"
"Birthquake"
"Changing Nature"
"Conversations Over the Fence"
"Cute in Tooth and Claw"
"Death Lizards"
"The Death Tenders"
"The Earthborn"
"Fiorenza and the Forest Wild" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman)
"Hymn to Nekhbet"
"Iconoclysm"
"Impressions of the North" (Torn World)
"Island in a Sea of Fire"
"A Keen Eye for Alchemy" (The Steamsmith")
"Tinned Kitties"
"Truth in Theory and Practice"
"The Wolves of Yellowstone"

"Grit and Grace" (Path of the Paladins) (linkback poem, written 1/3/12)


Currently sponsored poems have all been posted. The generally sponsored poetry poll finished off the microfunded poem "The Godfather" (Fiorenza the Wisewoman) and added new verses to "The Morose Mascot" (The Adventures of Aldornia and Zenobia).

The January donors include: [personal profile] the_vulture, [personal profile] zianuray, [personal profile] minor_architect, [personal profile] rix_scaedu, Stephen Laird, [personal profile] marina_bonomi, [personal profile] janetmiles, [personal profile] tuftears, [personal profile] westrider, [profile] laffingkat, Shirley Barrette, and Anthony Barrette. Thank you all for your wonderful support! I still need to write the donor perk-post.


For complete details on this project, see the Poetry Fishbowl Landing Page.
[identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
[livejournal.com profile] kmessner is organizing a project, "Created in the Path of Irene." The idea is to write, draw, etc. something while Hurricane Irene is whomping the east coast. Those of you who are into crowdfunding might consider putting a donation button on your post, and passing any donations along to a charity that helps victims of violent weather.
[identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.

I'm going to host a Poetry Fishbowl on my blog on Tuesday, July 8. This time the theme will be nature. I'll be soliciting ideas for characters, scenic places, wildlife, natural events, and poetic forms in particular. Chances are I'll spend a good chunk of the day, from afternoon to evening or more, alternating between this site and doing stuff offline so my back doesn't weld itself to the chair. I will post at least one of the resulting fishbowl poems on the blog for everyone to enjoy. The rest will be available for audience members to buy, and whatever's left over will go into my archive for magazine submission.

If you enjoy my poetry -- or if you just love poetry in general, or want to promote love of nature -- please mark the fishbowl date on your calendar. Drop by and give me some ideas, comment on the posted poetry, encourage people to come look, whatever tickles your fancy. I hope to see you then!
[identity profile] ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! I will be checking my blog periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.

Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is Nature. I am especially looking for:

  • settings
  • plants and animals
  • seasonal references
  • events
  • poetic forms


  • But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have the first edition of Lewis Turco's The Book of Forms which covers most common and many obscure forms.

    I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems on my blog so everyone can enjoy it.

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