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

[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.