Crowdfunded Creativity

Welcome to the seventh Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, May 26-Sunday, May 27. The theme is "food."  (Visit the Creative Jam over on Dreamwidth.)

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.

This month's One Card Draw is here! Scroll to the bottom for the LJ mirror if you prefer. Come, get a card from my unique bird oracle deck!

Eye of the Oracle, companion series to the 64-suared series, the first book The Scholar's Mate currently being serialized on my journal, is now live. Eye of the Oracle is set roughly fifteen years PRIOR to the events in The Scholar's Mate, and readers will soon find well-known characters amongst the pages.

I bring to you! The Prologue. Can also be found on dreamwidth.

As always, comments are welcomed! and wanted! Tips are appreciated, and as with previous entries, a tip jar button is at the bottom of the page. (All tips thrown into the jar will be used towards professional development for the next year.)

Characters List for this new series to come soon. Please enjoy!

There is now a Tumblr account listing Kickstarter campaigns for roleplaying games.

All three of these caught my eye, but of course I think the language one is the coolest.


Successful Education for Heritage Language Learners

Heritage language learners (HLLs) are students with a family language
different from the majority language. I will investigate a school that
has successfully integrated HLLs to uncover what methods are leading to
their success.

How the zebra got its stripes

How the zebra got its stripes is a mystery. I’m working to solve this
mystery by identifying the genes responsible for striping and
discovering what they can tell us about advantages that striping may
have for zebras

Carnivorous plants and the invisible predators inside

How do species interactions react to environmental changes? Microbes
living within carnivorous pitcher plants can help us find the answer,
if we develop good enough molecular tools to understand their
biodiversity.

June is National Audiobook Month.  Do you make podcasts?  Consider doing a crowdfunded podcast project in June.  That will also be a good time to recommend your favorite podzines or other projects.

My May Giraffe Call for Fiction prompts is now open in my journal!

The theme is Creations and Origins.

Prompting is free, but tips are always welcome. I'm calling this the Call of Nature, because this summer we're saving up for yard/garden equipment... and a bathroom.

The May Muse Fusion is now open. May is Sea Monster Month in Torn World, so we're especially looking for prompts about any of our marine megafauna. But other prompts are welcome too!

Big Pulp is doing a campaign on IndieGoGo to fund their print edition. Help support a speculative fiction market that pays its writers. They're going to publish one of my poems soon.

I've just finished a major revision of the </span>Economics section of my Crowdfunding resources. The sections have been moved to subpages of their own; all of them have been expanded at least a little. Websites for Crowdfunding Projects has expanded greatly, with many more sites listed, and much more detail for those platforms whose website lists plentiful information. So if you're into crowdfunding as a creator or donor, please check it out.