Jarkai Fiction and Graphics

My co-writer and I were talking, and the need for a different sort of prompt community came up. Before we started it, however, we thought we'd throw the idea out there and see if there was any interest at all.

One the biggest problems we find with prompt communities is their claim systems. They all want you to focus on one thing and one thing only--whether it be a character, a pairing, a fandom, or even a genre. In our opinion, what you should be concentrating on is writing, period. The opportunity to leap from topic to topic as inspiration moves us is part of what keeps our daily totals high. We feel that a prompt community structured to back that sort of writing process would benefit other tale-spinners, too. Instead of claiming a character, for example, they would choose to work one table out of many sets of prompts instead. The only real claims they might be making are how long they want each piece to be, or how long a period of time they are giving themselves to complete the entire table, both of which they would decide themselves--or it might be a NaNo type thing.

Thoughts?

If we were to create a new prompt community as discussed in the previous entry:

-- Should it be a weekly prompt or based on prompt tables?
-- If it is based on prompt tables, how many prompts should be in each table? 10, 20, 30?
-- Should prompts be word or picture-based? Some of each?

If we were to base the community on pictures, it could work in the following way:

There would be 10 pictures in each prompt table, each of them titled. You would then aim to write at least 100 words per prompt, shooting for the typical "a picture's worth a thousand words" if possible. That would mean than by the time you finished the prompt table you would have between 1,000 - 10,000 words under your belt. If we were aiming for a NaNo type of thing, 10,000 words in one month is much, much more manageable than the typical 50,000. We could, in fact, put up five new sets of prompts each month for example. You wouldn't have to finish your prompt table in that time, but it could be a goal to work on. 10,000 words a month is just under 350 words a day, about one and a half single-spaced pages. It's a matter of chipping away, nothing else, and for many writers even 1,000 words over that space of time is fabulous. It's better than writing nothing!

More thoughts?

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