A list of prompts.

[timepiececlock]

If I can think of some way to make this an official multi-fandom challenge somewhere, I'd like to. But I'm not sure how one gets something like that started.

Do you think people would be interested in a community for it? I know there's lots of prompts lists out there, but a lot of people must have done the big ones by now and might be looking for new prompts...

64 Prompts

1. 2 a.m.
2. metaphor
3. sky
4. lost scene
5. degrees
6. seize the day
7. opposite
8. passions run
9. connection
10. lull and storm
11. animal
12. children
13. we all float on
14. chess
15. duty
16. rip
17. missing time
18. crest
19. itch
20. explode
21. rise
22. crumble
23. range
24. fight/flight
25. acid
26. color
27. give
28. needle
29. locks
30. slope
31. correspondence
32. linger
33. charm
34. roads
35. hunger
36. reciprocity
37. kind
38. fruity
39. half-life
40. comedy of errors
41. tragedy
42. hope is the thing with feathers
43. empire
44. turpentine kisses and mistaken blows
45. rings
46. dust
47. every you, every me
48. project
49. adore
50. murmur
51. above
52. below
53. incalculable
54. wire
55. landslide
56. the beginning is the end is the beginning
57. door
58. enemy gate
59. stone
60. bright
61. stories
62. chime
63. laugh
64. hold


Current idea list for a multi-fandom comm name:

- 64random_prompts
- 64dollar_prompt
- 64other_prompts
- 64_promptings
- 64_ways_prompt
- 64_start_point
- 64_prompter

- i_prompt_64
- you_prompt_64
- prompt_me_64x

- multi_prompting
- multi_prompts
- 64multi_prompts
- 64x_a_prompt
- 64_prompt_times

- 8squared_prompt
- active_prompts
- 64_dirtyprompts ("Why is Emily Dickinson's poem a dirty prompt?" It's a mystery.)

Comments

[flamingly-fey.livejournal.com]

I'm on a sentence-comm high right now, so... I'd be willing to take a fandom and write things for them all.

Heck, I'd like to do something with my original character and these themes... may I?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Sure! Just mention this post, if you will. I think I might want to make a comm, except I'm not sure if anyone will go to my prompt list when faced with however many others are out there. I'd need a really catchy name...

[flamingly-fey.livejournal.com]

I'll link back to it!

As to a name, I suggest something drawing on the fact that sixty-four is eight squared. Numbers are "catchy," right?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about the 8 squared thing (one of the reasons I picked the number), but I was stuck on the fact that it's not separated into 8 categories, it's just a list of 64. Do you think "64dollar_prompt" is catchy?

[flamingly-fey.livejournal.com]

Yes, actually. (I'd thought you'd posted it as a link to something similar, and so was wracking my brains to try and figure out an alternate one—I'm stupid in that way.) It's good, and memorable.

Can I contribute a theme set once everything is go?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

No link, just testing to see how it looks as in LJ code.

Definitely. I'll reply here to your comment if I make something official. Also, the list is now frozen, since people have expressed interest-- I'm not going to edit or add to it at this point, so use it as you will.

[flamingly-fey.livejournal.com]

It looks good.

Thank you! I'll be writing in anticipation—for all three of my current fandoms. (Shaman King, Avatar, and D. Gray-Man, that is.)

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

My Tegan comm's looking for prompts. I might suggest a few to them when we organize our first fic-a-thon. I believe we'd settled on once a month.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Cool.

Any ideas for a generic prompt comm name or concept? Or any idea how to spread a list of prompts around to different groups?

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I'll ask around. Are you looking for a specific fandom or do you just want to do a multi-fandom prompt?

dragonsinger, who issues the "Variations on a Plot Theme" challenge every year (which I wrote "Love Is A Verb" for), states it's multi-fandom and links back to her LJ post on it at every fic comm, etc. she knows of. It generates a lot of buzz and interest.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Multi-fandom prompt.


That sounds cool, and I wouldn't be adverse to posting to every fic comm I can think of. But I was thinking maybe making a community for it (like 30_kisses) would be easier and less confusing. But I don't really have a gimmick or an angle to make it exciting or thrilling-- I just have a list of prompts I want to share with everyone.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Maybe just something insanely simple, like multi_prompts? Given it would be multi-fandom, you'd have a huge amount of interest across the board. I'd pimp it out to my writer friends, definitely. I know they'd join.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

current idea list:

64dollar_prompt
i_prompt_64
you_prompt_64
multi_prompts
64multi_prompts
active_prompts
64other_prompts
multi_prompting
64_promptings
64_ways_prompt

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I like multi_prompting or multi_prompts. And 64_promptings is general enough, too.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I wanted to use a lot of tangible things, very active words, and throw in some song lyrics that I love which make me think twisty things.

Or 64random_prompts?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

::adds to brainstorm list:: Good ideas, good ideas...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

is "8squared_prompt" too confusing?

or....

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

64_start_point
64_prompter

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I get it, but we're talking about LJ at large. NTB. None Too Bright. :)

These are all good suggestions, tho.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

we're talking about LJ at large. NTB.

New acronym.

I agree.

I'm thinking I'll just think of a bunch tonight and tomorrow, and then tomorrow night make a poll or something. Let LJers (or my flist) speak for itself.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Polls are always useful. I employ them quite a bit myself.

My brain's not wholly on the issue, tho. I'm compiling mini-fanmixes for characters. I've finally finished Raito's and now I need one more to round out Kimbley's.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

:laugh:

I could say "64_dirtyprompts" and let people wonder "Why is Emily Dickinson's poem a dirty prompt?"

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

"Why is Emily Dickinson's poem a dirty prompt?"

They wouldn't be? Oh wait. She's the one who wrote about death all the time, right? Still, under the right circumstances, it could be dirty.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I actually haven't read a whole bunch of her poems, but I've never heard her described that way. I think "the one who wrote about death all the time" was Sylvia Plath, at least when talking about famous female American poets.

Emily Dickinson did "Hope is the thing with feathers" (prompt #42), and "There is no frigate like a book".

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I had a book of Dickinson's poems, and maybe it's just the way I interpreted them, but they all seemed to be about death. Then again, I'm the one who's been convinced for the past ten years everything Robert Frost ever wrote is about death. I seem to have a thing about death.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

A book is way more than I've read of her, so you may be totally right.

What little I've read about Frost has struck me as definite dark undertones.

[rika-matsuki.livejournal.com]

yeah she does. my mom teaches her poems in her class so I get to hear about her stuff every year.

[muffytaj.livejournal.com]

What fandom would it be for, or just general? Some of those look really interesting.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

You know, it was sort of written for Avatar fandom in my head (since that's my main fandom right now), but I deliberately wanted to make it very open and useable for muliple fandoms, not just one.

[loves-bitch.livejournal.com]

Oooh if you do this multi-fandom wise let me know because I already have a few ideas floating in my head for "We all float on" and "Half-life".

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

The idea is growing in its appeal. I thought them up with a multi-fandom intention. Do you think people would be interested in a community for it? I know there's lots of prompts lists out there, but a lot of people must have done the big ones by now and might be looking for new prompts...

[loves-bitch.livejournal.com]

I know alot of the prompts I have seen I read but don't take part in because they are always the same things over and over again. But you seem to have some original things on there. Like right now "hope is a thing with feathers" has seemed to decide that it wants to be Fullmetal based for me, while "Half-life is screaming to be Spaced. So yeah, I think there will be a bit of an appeal to it.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I also noticed that a lot of prompt lists repeat the same stuff, and a lot of it is abstract stuff, very esoteric(?) and sometimes very emotion-based. I wanted to use a lot of tangible things, very active words, and throw in some song lyrics that I love which make me think twisty things. (or in the case of "hope is a thing with feathers", it's a poem line.)

[jakia.livejournal.com]

::cries:: You hate me, don't you? :wibble:

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Of course not. My love for you is like a lovely river of loving love!

[jakia.livejournal.com]

Then why must you come up with even more prompts? You know I can't resist them. They are like shinies to my dark, dreary, lifeless soul. >.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

And I still love you too. :) :sighs: Now to add about sixty more to my to-do list...