From the Mod's Journal ... Prompting - a poll
This is a trend I am seeing in prompt fests - tell me if I am wrong and it has always been like this. But I don't think so.
What I see is prompters becoming more "possessive" about their prompts. They want the stories written for their prompt true to the exact ideas outlined in their prompt. And I don't mean claimers disregarding the prompter's listed squicks. I mean the way the story-line goes, the way the characters behave and change over the course of the story.
I am baffled by this. For me prompts have always been for inspiration only. Prompt fests have sprung up as an alternative to gift exchanges; they were meant to give writers and artists more freedom in what they create. Stories and art created for a prompt fest, to me, are created for the entire fest community, not for the individual prompter.
Prompting has been something to get people involved in a fest, to make people come up and share plot bunnies and story ideas in a playful way. To my mind, prompts were never something that writers and artists had to stick to. Be inspired, yes, but not have their own ideas and where the story/art takes them be tied down to the prompter's wishes.
What are your feelings about prompts - as a prompter, and as a writer/artist?
Poll prompting
Last question should read: Have you ever ...? *headdesk* But OMG, are polls are hassle in this new format, or what?
What I see is prompters becoming more "possessive" about their prompts. They want the stories written for their prompt true to the exact ideas outlined in their prompt. And I don't mean claimers disregarding the prompter's listed squicks. I mean the way the story-line goes, the way the characters behave and change over the course of the story.
I am baffled by this. For me prompts have always been for inspiration only. Prompt fests have sprung up as an alternative to gift exchanges; they were meant to give writers and artists more freedom in what they create. Stories and art created for a prompt fest, to me, are created for the entire fest community, not for the individual prompter.
Prompting has been something to get people involved in a fest, to make people come up and share plot bunnies and story ideas in a playful way. To my mind, prompts were never something that writers and artists had to stick to. Be inspired, yes, but not have their own ideas and where the story/art takes them be tied down to the prompter's wishes.
What are your feelings about prompts - as a prompter, and as a writer/artist?
Poll prompting
Last question should read: Have you ever ...? *headdesk* But OMG, are polls are hassle in this new format, or what?