Good morning, friends and SilverFlame Art supporters!  Amyla here.  Last week was quite a time, getting things ready for the new crowdfunding art blog!  It feels wonderful to be getting back into the swing of things again.  Anyway, it's Monday, which means that I am opening for $5 sketch prompts from now until 5 p.m. CST.  This is a weekly event on ( Read more... )

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We are trying to promote Rue16, a new anonymous social network.This is a place where you can create new blogs, communities, magazines, albums, diaries, sketches etc. Whatever your creativity guides you to create will hopefully have a place there, if you help us build the community to support it ( Read more... )

I'm having another prompt session, this one a little different from the others.

(Taken from kajoneswriting.co.uk.) I’m looking for a number of different things. Names; personality traits; disabilities (both visible and invisible); song lyrics; pictures; short prompts (eg. yellow book or midnight lamp); and I may add more things as I think of them. ( Read more... )

October is Donor House month, so if you're interested in vampires then come and check it out. They're not your every day vampires, which may interest people who aren't normally interested in vampires. For those who may be worried they DON'T sparkle. I don't write about sparklepires.

World Walkers month, last month, went so well it is still ongoing. ( Read more... )

I'm trying something new at my Wisdom and Magic blog!Come, leave a prompt, and I'll write either wisdom or magic (you can request which or leave it to me), and at least one thing will be posted free! I am accepting tips and there are incentives ( Read more... )

Over at http://www.dreamfarmer.net/?p=433 (which I'm following on my LJ friends page through some mysterious RSS-feed magic) Chrysoula Tzavela wrote, "I don’t like the popularity of the idea that you have to blog to sell fiction. I don’t like the focus put on crafting the perfect query, either. They seem equivalent to me. It might be helpful, but a ( Read more... )

crowdfunding has several tags relating to money, sales, etc.

Cyberfunded Creativity -- Use this to mark posts that deal with cyberfunded creativity/crowdfunding as a business model, or individual CFC projects that people can visit and support.

Economics -- This covers broad issues of finance, the bookkeeping side of home business, national trends, and so ( Read more... )

           There have been multiple previous discussions about what would be wanted/needed in a hub site, so much of the brainstorming is already done.   Notes have been collated here for future reference.

( General Parameters )

I came across a debate as to whether long or short posts are better in a blog.  So I decided to ask my readers.  They overwhelmingly prefer a mix of short and long posts.  (So do I.)  Several folks noted that it depends on the content; some things work better short, others long ( Read more... )

Following the recent launch of the Rose and Bay Awards, I've been browsing through a great deal of crowdfunded creativity ... and things that might be cyberfunded projects but I can't really tell, and things that would  be if they had a clear money path.  I realized that the most popular projects had certain things in common.  Doing these things ( Read more... )