FREECTOBER!!
Okay, so, expanding on this idea of a creative challenge for October... I've just created a comm called "let's get shit done" that we can also re-use for other potential challenges in the future.
You don't really have to join the comm if you don't want to, I (hopefully) chose the settings that allow anyone to post and comment. I just thought that it would be easier to, you know, put things in common and encourage and support each other if we are sort of together in the same place.
So, the system is pretty simple:
1 - You decide what you want to do during the month of October.
2 - You do it.
3 - You post daily updates on your progress or your lack thereof. Going off-road is allowed, if you can't stick to your own challenge you can post about some other thing that gave you a different idea or something that you found inspiring today or some other medium you decided to try half-challenge. Even if it's just to say that you didn't do anything but the challenge is still in your mind it would be great to hear from you, because if you don't abandon an idea and keep it near, chances are that something comes out of it sooner or later.
4 - It's, of course, not compulsory, but it would be awesome if people also commented on other people's posts so that we all feel that we are not alone doing our own thing, but that we are together even if it's doing our own thing... know what I mean? I just miss very much this sense of community the fandom on LJ and DW has and I'm aware that most of you feel the same way.
And that's pretty much it.
Ideas and possibilities:
I do want to write ultra-short fics, I'd say one-liners, but I suck at synthesizing, so they might end up being one-paragraphers. One per day. I don't know yet if I want them all to be Saiyuki, or WK, or a mix of all my fandoms. We'll see.
Other people can do one doodle each day.
Or to work on an old WIP so that it gets finished at the end of the month.
Or to write small meta about your favourite fandoms.
Or to assign a song or a playlist or a color palette to a character each day.
Or to post a plotbunny.
Or to compose a tune.
Or to do embroidery.
I mean, the sky is the limit, you just have to find something that you feel like doing, because sometimes you sort of want to start a project but end up thinking "what for?" and don't do it. Well, here the answer is "because we want to know about it and see it done". So go ahead.
And that's pretty much the idea.
If you (like me) need some sort of external inspiration,
the_rck has offered to share a list of poetry snippets that she has collected and a bingo card generator. Or we can give prompts to each other, of course. That can also be it, your challenge can be providing random words for people to use everyday. Any question you might have, feel free to post on the comm so that we can work out the anwer. Bring other people on board if you like. Feel also free to spread the word.
Ok, I think that might be it. Let me know what you think!
Also posted at https://lauand.dreamwidth.org/129145.html, if you'd rather read it there or want to enter a discussion with
comments.