Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Shared Worlds prompt call!
This prompt call is:
Prompting closed at: 11:59 PM PST, Monday, June 23, 2014
Thank you everyone for coming by! I will continue to write prompt responses until every prompter has received at least one response, and will hopefully complete a response for every prompt. However, prompting is now closed.
Sponsoring is:
Sponsoring remained open until: 11:59 PM PST, Friday, July 4, 2014
Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Leave me prompts, and I'll write you snippets of fiction. Donate $10, and get 500-word flash fiction or complete scenes on a prompt response of your choice. These funded scenes will become part of the Shared Worlds canon.
I'm an author and editor of short fiction, with a number of professional publications, including appearances in various "Year's Best" compilations. You can read almost all of my short fiction for free online, and decide whether or not what I'm doing works for you.
You leave me a prompt. I'll try to write a snippet of fiction for you. These will just be me jotting down bits of the story as they occur to me, which is how I approach writing generally; what you get will probably be a bunch of illustrative lines without any real connecting bits. A taste of what I'd be doing with the story. (Check the link for an example of how that formatting looks.)
I will try to get to every prompt – or at least one prompt from every prompter – but cannot guarantee that I will.
Prompts can be whatever you feel like. "A girl-in-tower-guarded-by-dragon story from the dragon's perspective" could be an example, as could "something riffing off Sappho's You May Forget", or even just "a F/F/M poly triad fights crime". There's a Bingo card below with some prompts – this time, I generated the card using the "worldbuilding" and "end of the world" lists that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ysabetwordsmith worked up – but those are just jumping-off points, and should not be considered restrictive. Feel free to suggest anything.
(I reserve the right to refuse any prompts, though only expect to exercise this right if I've got too many prompts on my plate, or if I find prompts offensive. Additionally, you can't prompt for stuff in universes I've already written, unless they were written in this prompt call or are otherwise part of the Shared Worlds canon.)
If you donate $10 (USD) toward a prompt response I've already written (whether or not you were the one to prompt for it), you will get a minimum of 500 words (of new writing) of non-patchy fiction expanding on the response or continuing to flesh out its potential story. Could be a 5x drabble or flashfic, could be a complete scene in a potential short story. You may get more than 500 words – you may get substantially more, depending on how the mood strikes me and how engaged I am with the universe of the prompt response. But 500 words is the guaranteed minimum.
$10 for 500 words works out to 2¢/word. This is lower than I usually aim my fiction, but I'm hoping that it'll be an accessible price point for people, which in turn would help build up a canon of works in the Shared World universes.
For this prompt call, I'll release these flashfics/scenes into the Shared Worlds canon, which allows authors to write and sell derivative, transformative works (including fanfiction) based on the stories, so long as they release them under a similarly permissive license. My eventual hope is to create a body of works which can offer people the community benefits of a fandom while still nurturing and encouraging a culture of rewarding creative folk for their work.
This prompt call is:
Closed
Prompting closed at: 11:59 PM PST, Monday, June 23, 2014
Thank you everyone for coming by! I will continue to write prompt responses until every prompter has received at least one response, and will hopefully complete a response for every prompt. However, prompting is now closed.
Sponsoring is:
Closed
Sponsoring remained open until: 11:59 PM PST, Friday, July 4, 2014
Thank you to everyone who contributed!
Wait. What is this? Briefly, please.
Leave me prompts, and I'll write you snippets of fiction. Donate $10, and get 500-word flash fiction or complete scenes on a prompt response of your choice. These funded scenes will become part of the Shared Worlds canon.
Who are you, anyway? Why should we care what you're writing?
I'm an author and editor of short fiction, with a number of professional publications, including appearances in various "Year's Best" compilations. You can read almost all of my short fiction for free online, and decide whether or not what I'm doing works for you.
So tell me about prompting. How does that work?
You leave me a prompt. I'll try to write a snippet of fiction for you. These will just be me jotting down bits of the story as they occur to me, which is how I approach writing generally; what you get will probably be a bunch of illustrative lines without any real connecting bits. A taste of what I'd be doing with the story. (Check the link for an example of how that formatting looks.)
I will try to get to every prompt – or at least one prompt from every prompter – but cannot guarantee that I will.
Prompts can be whatever you feel like. "A girl-in-tower-guarded-by-dragon story from the dragon's perspective" could be an example, as could "something riffing off Sappho's You May Forget", or even just "a F/F/M poly triad fights crime". There's a Bingo card below with some prompts – this time, I generated the card using the "worldbuilding" and "end of the world" lists that
ysabetwordsmith worked up – but those are just jumping-off points, and should not be considered restrictive. Feel free to suggest anything.(I reserve the right to refuse any prompts, though only expect to exercise this right if I've got too many prompts on my plate, or if I find prompts offensive. Additionally, you can't prompt for stuff in universes I've already written, unless they were written in this prompt call or are otherwise part of the Shared Worlds canon.)
Okay, and what do I get if I pay you? And why $10?
If you donate $10 (USD) toward a prompt response I've already written (whether or not you were the one to prompt for it), you will get a minimum of 500 words (of new writing) of non-patchy fiction expanding on the response or continuing to flesh out its potential story. Could be a 5x drabble or flashfic, could be a complete scene in a potential short story. You may get more than 500 words – you may get substantially more, depending on how the mood strikes me and how engaged I am with the universe of the prompt response. But 500 words is the guaranteed minimum.
$10 for 500 words works out to 2¢/word. This is lower than I usually aim my fiction, but I'm hoping that it'll be an accessible price point for people, which in turn would help build up a canon of works in the Shared World universes.
For this prompt call, I'll release these flashfics/scenes into the Shared Worlds canon, which allows authors to write and sell derivative, transformative works (including fanfiction) based on the stories, so long as they release them under a similarly permissive license. My eventual hope is to create a body of works which can offer people the community benefits of a fandom while still nurturing and encouraging a culture of rewarding creative folk for their work.
| Gamma Ray Burst | Dominant species | Magic |
| Local cuisine | Overpopulation | Extreme weather |
| Honors & insults | Sex / gender dynamics | Divine intervention |
Lessons of Flesh and Water
Date: 2014-06-30 08:42 am (UTC)From:Thank you again for prompting and funding this! Here's hoping that the setting and characters will seed many stories to come.
Re: Lessons of Flesh and Water
Date: 2014-06-30 09:20 am (UTC)From:Worlds canon! <<
Yay! This is beautiful. I love the way it turned out, now that it's fully developed. I have linked.
>> Thank you again for prompting and funding this! Here's hoping that the setting and characters will seed many stories to come. <<
You're welcome, and thanks for creating both the story and the Shared Worlds project. I've encouraged other people to get involved; maybe some of them will give it a try.