Jarkai Fiction and Graphics (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} jarkai) wrote,@ 2007-09-10 15:13:00 |
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New Writing Community Continued...
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?
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?