Crowdfunded Creativity

The Crowdfunding Creative Jam is now live on DreamWidth with a theme of "Sufficient or Indulgent."

I have posted a call for themes over on Dreamwidth.

The Crowdfunding Creative Jam is now live on Dreamwidth.

What are your planned crowdfunding projects for May? What did you accomplish during April?

The May Creative Jam will run Saturday 20-Sunday 21 with a theme of "baker's dozen."

The Crowdfunding Creative Jam is now live on Dreamwidth.

K_a_webb is now a moderator of Origfic_bingo.  \o/  Congratulations!  \o/  There is a new card request post open where you can go to ask for a card in your choice of Gen, Romance, Kink, or a combination of themes.  This community has long been a mainstay of creative bingo for people who aren't making fanworks.

What are your planned crowdfunding projects for April? What did you accomplish during March?

The April Creative Jam will run Saturday 14-Sunday 15 with a theme of "twists."

Welcome to the sixtieth Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, March 18-Sunday, March 19. The theme is "Skeptical, Not Blind." Visit the Creative Jam over on Dreamwidth.

Stuck for ideas?  Allbingo is running a Disability Bingo Fest with two public cards.


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.

Based on the runoff poll, "Letter to a Super-Hurrah" by Alatefeline is the winner of the Other Project category for the 2017 Rose & Bay Awards.

I planned it for the full moon, but life doesn't always cooperate!

Anyway, I have a card draw open over here on LJ, and over here on DW, and I'd love some more readings to do.

Commenting in either place would be great! Tips and Signal Boosts are very welcome.

I'm going to go out for a little bit and see how well my lungs tolerate shoveling the white stuff. I should be OK, since it's only a couple of degrees F below freezing, but I won't stay outside for long at any one stretch. In between, I'll be back to see if anyone has dropped by.

All are welcome. I can draw a card for you, for a situation, as inspiration for a creative project or game, to point out how to get past a creative block, or even for one of your characters.