Every January, the Rose and Bay awards are open for nominations. The Rose and Bay awards are for excellence in crowdfunding, and the categories are fiction, poetry, art, webcomics, other projects, and patron ( Read more... )

It should cross-post, but in case it doesn't, here's a link: http://wyld-dandelyon.dreamwidth.org/247348.html

Happy New Year everybody!

This weekend is the Torn World Muse Fusion (if you are so inclined, we'd love to get your questions or topic suggestions, whether they are specific to Torn World or just inspiration in general ( Read more... )

This is Denel's reading, posted here for EllenMillion. It's a little long to post as a comment in the card draw, so I'm giving it its own post ( Read more... )

If you have a moment, go check out the nominees and vote! Each voting page has a link to the nominating page, and there's links to everything.

http://crowdfunding.livejournal.com/555687.html

Even if you don't vote, you'll find some cool stuff.

Over here: http://crowdfunding.livejournal.com/548844.html

What crowdfunded things have you been enjoying? So far, there's only one fiction and one patron nominee. Here's your chance to tell more people about your favorite writers, artists, and patrons!

I love reading urban fantasy, and I've been wanting an urban fantasy world to play in--er, write in. But I don't have an urban fantasy world designed yet. I want something different, with magical beings that suit my personal sense of whimsy. A world different enough to let me challenge my characters with a different set of dilemmas ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure my friends will all have heard about the recent project Kickstarter should not have funded. If not, this guy wanted to publish a "seduction guide" based on "research and development done on Reddit". His words on Reddit, carefully erased prior to sending in his Kickstarter proposal, essentially advocated sexual assault. Kickstarter ( Read more... )

The Muse Fusion has started! It’s over HERE.

I promised to post a poll so you could vote on which story your links to the Muse Fusion will sponsor, and got distracted. So here it is.

Please vote! I’ll close the poll sometime tomorrow so I can start posting 100-word segments of the story you choose:

Poll story!

It’s easy to sponsor the story-just link to the Muse ( Read more... )

Next weekend is Torn World's monthly creative jam, when our online storytellers create new fiction, poetry, and art to share with each other, our friends and our readers.  To help  us get in the mood, I thought I'd share this new bit of writing:

Story Time in Torn World
By Deirdre M. Murphy

In the far, cold, North:Ashari wiggled on her blanket, ( Read more... )