The Sentence Fest
sara_holmes and I had a brain child last night: we're the proud parents of a fledgling baby fest. I'm scrounging around to see who else might be interested in joining us in any capacity.
The idea is a sentence. How many different ideas can be born from a single sentence? From a few sentences? We've called it, aptly, The Sentence Fest.
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But the idea of the fest is taking one or two sentences and giving your own context as a writer. For me, if you tell me not to go someplace, my mind travels there just to spite us both--the seed has been planted, so to speak. If someone says "no penetration," I'm immediately going to be thinking of ten ways that sentence could come up during intercourse. The idea is to take the hinges off of prompts, distill them down to a sentence or two or three, and see what changes and what remains the same. It would be cool to have a fluff fic and an abortion fic come out of the same prompt.
I think we need to have the two categories: prompts with rules, boundaries and limitations, and tabula rasa sentences which can be molded any which way without influence or direction. The idea is to take away as many of the railings as possible, creating free-range writing. I'd be curious how differently results would turn out, if the same sentence were given with and without squicks. It would be interesting, to say the least.
And yeah, podfic is reading a fic out loud. It's great for people who like to listen to their fics while they're commuting or at the gym. Or for occasionally bedridden people like me, who would get sick looking at the computer for too long. It's not for everyone. But for the people who use it, it's lovely.
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Oh, no, I totally get the usefulness of podfics, and wish I could enjoy them. My best friend loves them. :) I just can't seem to keep my focus on them... I'm not an auditory person by any means. Le sigh.
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I'm really not one to talk about ratings, with all the NC17 I handle in a day. I'm a big advocate of writers tagging their own work for squicks and content. So long as we patrol the age statement side of things, we should be okay. It's also looking more and more like this should be a comm.
Looks like the bit about "write all the shit and flood Trey's inbox" is going to be spot-on. ^_^
WRITE ALL THE SHIT.
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Since the hope is that one prompt will spawn multiple creations, I think it matters less if one or two are not to the prompter's taste. If one squicks you out (and hopefully you'd know form the warning!), skip it and go on to another that doesn't.
As for how to encourage people to respond to the same prompt, could there be a way for people to say which prompt they are working on so that others can try that one too?
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