Crowdfunding Creative Jam

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the thirty-third Crowdfunding Creative Jam! This session will run Saturday, September 20-Sunday, September 21. The theme is "New Ideas in Old Problems." (Visit the Creative Jam over on Dreamwidth.)

Crowdfunding Creative JamEveryone is eligible to post prompts, which may be words or phrases, titles, images, etc. Prompters may request a

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Open Playground: Schrodinger's Heroes

[ysabetwordsmith]

Everyone is welcome to play with Schrodinger's Heroes. (If you're new to this project, you can start here.) This is an imaginary fandom for an apocryphal television show. A team of heroes practice quantum physics and other hijinks to protect Earth against invaders from other dimensions. The team is racially, sexually, and culturally diverse. Because the subject naturally deals with alternate realities, it lends itself well to crossovers and alternate-universe interpretations; you can use my version or make up your own.

Open Playground: Torn World

[ysabetwordsmith]

Torn World is a science fantasy shared world available for writing and creating in. Sea monsters! Giant furred unicorns! Crystals that control time! People of changing gender, or no gender!

For more information about the setting, prompters should start here and contributors should start here. For specific information about submitting your work to our world continuity, rights and allowances, please see our contributor's rules. We have a space for sharing non-canon work on our site, so don't be shy about jumping in, even if you aren't familiar with the setting yet!

Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Image Prompts:
Man puzzling over blackboard equations
Flat tire on a futuristic car
That awkward moment when your mage says "oops"

Title Prompts:
"The Lonely Villain"
"All the Wrong Answers"
"The Dragon's Dilemma"

Text Prompts:
Problems with complex parts that have to be solved one piece at a time.
When someone from a different culture looks at a 'difficult' problem and says, "Oh that's easy, you just do X," and it works.
"And a little child shall lead them."

Prompts

[ellenmillion]

Getting (self or goods) from point a to point b is a very old problem - I'd like to see some creative (maybe futuristic) transportation solutions.

The wording of the theme makes me think of a file card "New Ideas" accidentally filed in "Old Problems." I have file cards on the brain.

A creative solution to an overdue tax.

Re: Prompts

[ysabetwordsmith]

For futuristic travel, see today's freebie, "Dreams into Space."

Prompts:

[kestrels_nest]

Technological/magical solutions to the problem: Pregnant. Does not want to be pregnant for another 9 days, let alone 9 months. Does not want child. Considers abortion wrong.

Re: Prompts:

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is actually from the prompt you left elsewhere about Mallory.

Damask interface between their housemates and Mallory, offering her at least a temporary place to stay, and suggesting ways to fill in the gaps of what she's missing in her life. "Part of Your New Life" is written in free verse.

290 lines, Buy It Now = $145

Re: Prompts:

[kestrels_nest]

I know. But I figured out that the poetry fishbowl and the crowdfunding jam were two different things after I posted it, and so tried to make it fit the event that was actually running. I gather the attempted correction was more annoying that the original error. I'm sorry.

Re: Prompts:

[ysabetwordsmith]

It's okay. I'm pretty loose about prompts. I don't think I've ever bounced anything for being off-topic, although given a list I'll usually go for things on-topic rather than off. For Mallory, positive coping skills, asking for help and getting it, and having friends who are actually useful -- those are all new ideas for old problems. And a lot better than her last attempt to deal with a major life challenge by herself, which is how she became a supervillain in the first place.

I can usually figure out how to match a cool idea with a current topic.