Crowdfunding Creative Jam
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access_fandomThe 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.
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Date: 2012-01-11 02:59 am (UTC)Oops...
Date: 2012-01-11 03:19 am (UTC)announcement, because I came
across this community while
searching for articles. I'll
see if I can edit in more of
an explanation. In brief, the
jam is a chance for writers,
artists, and other folks to
trade ideas and write stories
or make pictures or whatever.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 08:00 am (UTC)Crowdfunded Creativity (also Cyberfunded creativity) is a new, growing business model. It allows writers, artists, musicians, crafters, and other creative folks to sell their goods and services directly to audiences online. It allows ordinary, individual people to support performers and artisans they admire, which encourages them to produce more of what their audience members enjoy. It encourages creators and audiences to interact with each other, often influencing what gets created and released. It cuts out the middleman, putting more money in the hands of hard-working creators and more control in the hands of enthusiastic consumers. CFC is most often done through blogs and personal websites, and there are many variations on how people do it. There are also some crowdfunding hub sites such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for funding big projects such as a music album or gallery show.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 05:08 pm (UTC)I know what crowdfunding is and this still seems confusing - am I being invited to write to spec (other people's prompts)? Submit prompts?
What is "Torn World"? I've heard it before, but all I remember is "It's a thing with disabled characters" and it would help to have some info in the post.
Okay...
Date: 2012-01-12 05:13 am (UTC)project with writers, artists,
readers, and other folks. It's
science fantasy focused on the
manipulation of time as a
natural force, and all the
things that can go wrong with
that. Some of the stories have
a sociological flavor but there
are romance, intrigue,
wilderness adventure, and
other things too. You can read
the poetry, stories, and
articles already posted or
write your own. Look at the
art, or draw some. Take control
of a favorite character by
adopting them, if you have
ideas for what they might do
next. People collaborate
fairly often, and some pieces
are connected where a story
inspired a picture or vice
versa. A more detailed
introduction is here:
http://www.tornworld.net/settingpageview.php?id=54
Re: Okay...
Date: 2012-01-12 08:00 am (UTC)Re: Okay...
Date: 2012-01-12 08:32 am (UTC)half the answer box is covered
by the right sidebar for me. I
use the return so I can see
what I'm typing. Otherwise it
would be too full of typos to
read.
I don't know why some blog
styles do that and others don't.
(no subject)
Date: 2012-01-11 02:27 pm (UTC)*sigh*
Date: 2012-01-11 05:13 pm (UTC)and paste things, sometimes the
computer won't let me delete the
color coding -- I can erase but
it regenerates.
If I can't read all of a text,
I try highlighting it. Some
sites just have combinations
that are too hard to read
otherwise.
Re: *sigh*
Date: 2012-01-14 04:57 pm (UTC)If you edit the post (use the HTML editor, not the RTE) and remove all the 'style="color: rgb(9, 108, 55); "' properties from the <a ... href ...> tags, it'll get rid of the extraneous colour.
If you reload the page in light style, you'll get rid of whatever's hiding your comment box. If you don't have the navbar, I think it's ?style=light added to the URL.