Eternity RPC Board
Cards Against Humanity tourney. We'll find out once and for all who is queen. Or some other gender of monarch.
Jussayin.
/edit later with actual ideas if I come up with any; elaborate on "prompt-based writing contests, which are fun and normal and would help us flex our abilities in prose and would also help with writer's block hopefully"
*Edit: Right, so, writing contests.
While I personally have had no interest in writing MTRP themes over the past several months (obvious to many of you, I'm sure), that's not to say I haven't had an interest in writing period. Granted, I haven't had much time to do any kinds of writing what with the wedding and travel and work and the holiday season, but when I do get a free second or two, I do have writing ideas, and I do string some words together on occasion. And I find that the more I flex my creativity writing on one topic, the more motivated I am to write about other topics. So while I may not have any good ideas for Karjelinn, writing about something totally unrelated is a better motivator than going totally stagnant, and I'm way more likely to get motivated to write a post if I haven't gone without writing anything at all for weeks and weeks.
I think a good community-based way of approaching this could be prompt-based writing contests. Choose a few words, a picture, a sentence - whatever - and have participants write a short story about it. We could host this sort of thing regularly enough that there are several in a year, but not so many that we get burnout and don't have time to do our MTRP thingies. Maybe quarterly or so.
As far as how the contest would work and what the stories would need to be like and how judging would take place, I think that's best left to decide once we know whether or not there's even enough interest in this to support an ongoing contest. If needed, we could even scrap the "contest" implications and just have regular prompts that our members can use as exercises. Make a standing subforum out of it.
But who doesn't love absolutely crushing the competition physically, psychologically and spiritually? c:
And I'd actually love to be able to give out small prizes if we go the contest route, paycheck willing (think $10 Steam gift card, or similar). Definitely not with every contest, but maybe for the one big one at the end of the year or something. You get a few hearty ego strokes for the other ones, I ain't made of money.
Anyway, it's a thought. Fight writer's block and exercise your vocabulary and maybe Sal will give you five dolla.
Jussayin.
/edit later with actual ideas if I come up with any; elaborate on "prompt-based writing contests, which are fun and normal and would help us flex our abilities in prose and would also help with writer's block hopefully"
*Edit: Right, so, writing contests.
While I personally have had no interest in writing MTRP themes over the past several months (obvious to many of you, I'm sure), that's not to say I haven't had an interest in writing period. Granted, I haven't had much time to do any kinds of writing what with the wedding and travel and work and the holiday season, but when I do get a free second or two, I do have writing ideas, and I do string some words together on occasion. And I find that the more I flex my creativity writing on one topic, the more motivated I am to write about other topics. So while I may not have any good ideas for Karjelinn, writing about something totally unrelated is a better motivator than going totally stagnant, and I'm way more likely to get motivated to write a post if I haven't gone without writing anything at all for weeks and weeks.
I think a good community-based way of approaching this could be prompt-based writing contests. Choose a few words, a picture, a sentence - whatever - and have participants write a short story about it. We could host this sort of thing regularly enough that there are several in a year, but not so many that we get burnout and don't have time to do our MTRP thingies. Maybe quarterly or so.
As far as how the contest would work and what the stories would need to be like and how judging would take place, I think that's best left to decide once we know whether or not there's even enough interest in this to support an ongoing contest. If needed, we could even scrap the "contest" implications and just have regular prompts that our members can use as exercises. Make a standing subforum out of it.
But who doesn't love absolutely crushing the competition physically, psychologically and spiritually? c:
And I'd actually love to be able to give out small prizes if we go the contest route, paycheck willing (think $10 Steam gift card, or similar). Definitely not with every contest, but maybe for the one big one at the end of the year or something. You get a few hearty ego strokes for the other ones, I ain't made of money.
Anyway, it's a thought. Fight writer's block and exercise your vocabulary and maybe Sal will give you five dolla.