The call for prompts is now OPEN!
I am now taking prompts on the theme of “Weren’t you going to write…?” Leave one or many prompts, and I will write (over the next month) at least one microfic (150-500 words) to each prompter.
This month’s theme is a little different; it’s an attempt to knock some of the balls out of my rafters (where they get stuck when I have too many balls in the air). Did you hear me say “I want to write about…?” or think I should write more on a story? Now’s the time to bring it up.
Need ideas?
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This discussion of my queue
Prompting is free! But Donations are always welcome.
If you have donated, I will write to one extra prompt of your.
In addition, for each $5 you donate, I will write an additional 500 words to the prompt(s) of your choice.
If I get two new prompters or one new donator, I will write a setting piece (setting chosen by poll).
At $30 in donations, we’ll get take out.
At $40 in donations, I will post an additional 1000-2000-word fic on the subject of the audience’s choice.
Reached!
At $50, anyone who donated $7.50 or more will have a copy of “Alder by Post” mailed to them if they wish
At $70, I will write two extra 500-word continuations – chosen by prompters picked by random number generator
At $75, we will upgrade our wheelbarrow to an AWESOME CARD
At $100, I will write three extra 500-word continuations – chosen by prompters picked by random number generator
At $130, I will record a podcast of an audience-choice story and post it for everyone to read.
At $150, we’ll upgrade the awesome cart to awesome-cart-with-sides and be able to haul EVERYTHING!< Also I will release an e-book of all of the fiction written to this call.
If I reach $200, I will hold a mid-month Call on a single setting of the readers’ choice. Everyone who tipped will get wordcount-and-a-half
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I believe we already have an arrangement about gremlins. 🙂 Prompts: Rin and Girey – filling in a blank space after they reach the palace. Black House
I have written to your prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/442608.html
I have answered your second prompt here – http://aldersprig.livejournal.com/445166.html
I think you’ve already written four pieces just today that were on my giant list of all the things, and mentioned at least two more in queue or in progress, so I’m just going to run in circles and squeee with enthusiasm a lot. 🙂
But I’ve written everything in my queue for this call, so feel free to add one more!
<looks at queue list> Where are you looking at sending submissions (I assume for publication)? Any tasty themes to write to? (Have you submitted the one about the ghost of the English language for publication anywhere?)
at the moment, nothing’s sticking out at me. I’d have to go through duotrope’s or the Writer’s market again. I have not!
<pokes around> I like the title Untied Shoelaces of the Mind. “I want fiction so dark, twisted, or just plain tasty that I lose sleep after reading them (by dark I do not mean depressing),” it says. And that they want a beginning, a middle, and an end. 🙂
Kel, you’re awesome!!
No promises that they’re any good! But of the ones I grabbed off of the duotrope list, they had an amusing title, seemed to be coherent, have a usable web site, and more of the sampling of stories there that I read amused me than not, so I have high hopes?
*grin* I shall submit to them this week! Probably tonight! (Is your prompt “submit something?” *amused and perplexed*)
“Write something intended for submission for publication.”
Aah! WRITE something for them! Not submit something already written! I can do that 😀
Oh, please don’t let me discourage you from submitting pieces you’ve already written. But you asked for prompts. 🙂
I just wanted to be clear! 😉 Thanks!!
I THOUGHT they sounded familiar! I submitted Afghans for Aliens there last year (rejected).
Heh. Shall pick a different one, then?
One a year is fine. I submitted Teddy Demon to them, and shall find another one to write something to tomorrow!
Woohoo! Teddy Demon sounds like an excellent choice given their guidelines.
*cross fingers*
I don’t recall if you ever said there would be more, but have you had any thoughts of continuing Fish Story/Falling/Limping There, the Tir na Cali story with the mermaid? In Small Words you said you wanted to see more of Fred. Poor Fred, sounds like he was taking to the lessons more than most of the others, but now likely in quite a bit of trouble.