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Writing Under Glass is OPEN!
Monday, September 7th, 2020 08:53 amWelcome to Writing Under Glass
Inspired by ysabetwordsmith and the Poetry Fishbowl, I thought I'd try my own hand at "stories under glass". I'm recruiting prompts from a WIDE range of places, all to be read and answered in some form over the course of Monday Sept. 7, since I'm not at work that day.
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How's it work?
Leave me a prompt! If you're familiar with my style or settings already, feel free to get specific. If you're new to my work, feel free to be as abstract as you like, understanding I may be abstract right back.
Then, I write. It'll be a mix of poetry, short fiction, demifiction, epistolary fiction, and whatever else works for the ideas I get. I'll hit at least one prompt from each prompter, then double back and do second prompts from anyone who donated money to either my personal fund or my Extra Life fundraiser for KU Medical Center Pediatrics.
How do we unlock the work? Is it free or crowdfunded?
This round will be less monetized. Donations are ALWAYS accepted and appreciated (again, to me or to help sick kids, I'm not picky), but to get a piece unlocked and posted, just spread the word. One linkback equals one FREE piece to be posted here out of your prompts. If more than one of your prompts is used, I'll ask you which of the two you want posted. At the end of the day, anything not unlocked will be priced out and put up as a Break the Glass Sale, to free up the rest of the Writing Under Glass.
Is this a solo project or can I join in?
Well, the point is to reduce the solitary nature of writing (and expose more people to how writing works, since I'll also be doing a twitch.tv stream of my process). So even just by throwing prompts at me you're joining in. But I have had a number of Friendly Neighborhood Spiderwriters offer to bolster/back up my writing if needed, so I figure I'll address that question. Here's my parameters for that: firstly, prompts posted are free game if another creative wants to try their take on it; secondly, if you get inspired, you can pop a link to your page of choice into the comments, where you can get people interested in your work; lastly, anyone is welcome in my corner of the Internet if they can manage to obey Wheaton's Law, so in general you can do as you do.
Overall Rules of the Writing Under Glass Forum:
Obey Wheaton's Law (Don't Be A Dick)
If you see someone breaking Rule 1, tell me and I will handle it. Being a dick back doesn't fix it and I'll nix any parties being dicks.
Don't eat the food or drink the wine
Disregard Rule 3 it was leftover from hosting things in Faerie
No whining about which prompts get done or demanding more writing
Try not to derail the event with links to your own stuff. I don't mind sharing space but if 70% of the thread is page links to other writers, we're not getting the prompts we need.
Nifty Links:
My paypal (for donations to the author or purchasing a piece)
My Extra Life Page (for donations to help sick kids)
My twitch link (for watching the stream)
