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Tue, Jan. 10th, 2012
Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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ysabetwordsmithThe next session of the Crowdfunding Creative Jam will run January 14-15. The theme is "Disabled People (visibly and invisibly disabled)" based on a previous poll. Mark the time on your calendar so you can leave and/or claim prompts.
What is a Creative Jam?
It's kind of like a jam session in music, only with all kinds of creative material, and online. (See previous sessions featuring "Inner Worlds" and "Misfits" to see prompts and the works they inspired.) This is a chance for writers, artists, fans, and other creative people to trade ideas and create stories, poems, artwork, music or whatever else they want. If you don't think that there's enough fiction, art, etc. with disabled characters, or that disabilities aren't portrayed very well, then ask for something more awesome. If you like to write, draw, or otherwise render people with disabilities, then drop by and look for inspiration among the other prompts. Some of the material gets posted free, and some is usually available for sale, depending on the individual creators' choices.
Want to do some advance planning for this Creative Jam?
Torn World has a number of disabled characters including Rai (owned by me, blind), Marai (adoptable, deaf), Kalitelm (adoptable, dwarfism & club feet), and Ularki (adoptable, mentally disabled).
Here are some articles:
"Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness"
"Deaf Characters: Behind the Fiction"
"Depiction of Intellectual Disability in Fiction"
"On the handling of disabled characters"
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction"
"Writing About Disability"
"Writing Characters with Mental Illness"
"Writing My First Wheelchair Bound Character Has Been Enlightening"
"Writing Realistic Disabled Characters"
"1001 Drawings"
"Disability & Art"
"The Disability Paradox: Ghettoisation of the Visual"
"Fantastic Films, Fantastic Bodies"
"Media Representation of Disabled People"
"Movies with Characters with Disabilities"
"Top 10 TV Shows with a Disabled Character"
"Famous Disabled People in History"
"Well Known People with Disabilities"
Also, I'm open to having other folks host the Crowdfunding Creative Jam in future sessions. If you'd like to volunteer, please let me know and we'll discuss which month(s) you want. The aforementioned poll listed a bunch of themes that people were interested in writing about, so you can pick one of those.
What is a Creative Jam?
It's kind of like a jam session in music, only with all kinds of creative material, and online. (See previous sessions featuring "Inner Worlds" and "Misfits" to see prompts and the works they inspired.) This is a chance for writers, artists, fans, and other creative people to trade ideas and create stories, poems, artwork, music or whatever else they want. If you don't think that there's enough fiction, art, etc. with disabled characters, or that disabilities aren't portrayed very well, then ask for something more awesome. If you like to write, draw, or otherwise render people with disabilities, then drop by and look for inspiration among the other prompts. Some of the material gets posted free, and some is usually available for sale, depending on the individual creators' choices.
Want to do some advance planning for this Creative Jam?
Torn World has a number of disabled characters including Rai (owned by me, blind), Marai (adoptable, deaf), Kalitelm (adoptable, dwarfism & club feet), and Ularki (adoptable, mentally disabled).
Here are some articles:
"Blind Characters: A Process of Awareness"
"Deaf Characters: Behind the Fiction"
"Depiction of Intellectual Disability in Fiction"
"On the handling of disabled characters"
"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Fiction"
"Writing About Disability"
"Writing Characters with Mental Illness"
"Writing My First Wheelchair Bound Character Has Been Enlightening"
"Writing Realistic Disabled Characters"
"1001 Drawings"
"Disability & Art"
"The Disability Paradox: Ghettoisation of the Visual"
"Fantastic Films, Fantastic Bodies"
"Media Representation of Disabled People"
"Movies with Characters with Disabilities"
"Top 10 TV Shows with a Disabled Character"
"Famous Disabled People in History"
"Well Known People with Disabilities"
Also, I'm open to having other folks host the Crowdfunding Creative Jam in future sessions. If you'd like to volunteer, please let me know and we'll discuss which month(s) you want. The aforementioned poll listed a bunch of themes that people were interested in writing about, so you can pick one of those.
