Questions and Suggestions

[badly_knitted]

 

Here's where you can ask any questions, make suggestions for future prompts, request community affiliation or ask to pimp your community or fest.

Please be patient if you don't get an immediate reply - I'm sole owner and mod at present, and I'm taking part in a lot of other writing challenges, plus I do need to sleep occasionally ;)

Anyone interested in becoming a co-mod, please leave a comment below.

Also, anyone who would be interested in creating a community icon or two, please reply below, because I really do need something to pretty the place up! I'd like a general community icon and a community mod icon, I think.

Tag requests should go on the Tag Requests post.

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure you will, in fact I should probably go and join now, before I forget... *pootles off to community*

[terabient]

Hello! Thanks for creating and maintaining this community...I missed multi-fandom drabble challenges. ♥

This may be a dumb question, but is NSFW/NC-17 rated content allowed?

[badly_knitted]

Welcome, I hope you'll have a good time drabbling here!

Yep, bring it on! There's even a tag for explicit content, so smut-hounds can find such choice snippets! We cater for everyone here, I want writers to feel free to go in whatever direction prompts take them, any fandom, any genre, any rating, just let your muses loose and have fun.

[ahavah]

Can we post our stories to AO3? I thought I saw something about only posting elsewhere once the challenge was closed, but I'm not finding it now. Maybe I'm thinking of another community? Anyway, it's easier for me to post them as I write them, but I'm happy to wait if that's what I'm supposed to do. Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Post away wherever you want and whenever you want, it's not necessary to wait for a challenge to close.

In fact, if it's easier for you to post straight to AO3 and just post a header here with a link to your drabble, that's fine too.

I've tried not to make things too complicated, and the rules are more basic guidelines than anything else because the aim of this community is to give people a relaxing place where they can drabble in comfort without getting stressed over whether or not they're doing it right.

Have fun!

[ahavah]

Okay, great! Thanks for clarifying. I may do that in the future then.

[badly_knitted]

You're welcome!

[icedark_elf]

Would you be interested in affiliating with story_arc? It's a multi-fandom comm focused on using prompt words to make a series of scenes/chapters/stories. Finally started working on finding affiliates.

[badly_knitted]

I would be delighted!

If you want to affiliate with my other community, ficlet_zone, that would be great too!

Ummm, how do I add affiliates to the community profile page? I've seen it done elsewhere, but such things confuse me.

[icedark_elf]

Added you. I used this code for my setup in my mini profile:

<center><u><b>Affiliates</b></u> Want to affiliate? Drop me a line <a href=>here</a> <user name=> <user name=> </center>

[badly_knitted]

Thank you - I'm useless at anything involving coding!

Now lets see if I can add your community!

Sort of done it, but what should be in the bit that says drop me a line here? (I am easily confused these days...)

[icedark_elf]

I put the url of the page where they could ask to affiliate between the href= and the >. It takes them directly to the page to ask. Or you can take it out all together.

If you hit enter after the community name and type up a descriptor, it’ll appear centered under the community. As long as it is between the two center tags, it’ll stay centered together.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I'll make a note of all that and see what I can sort out later.

Would you like to be affiliated with the communities on Livejournal as well as here?

[pegasuswrites]

Hey! I didn't see this mentioned in the rules so I thought I'd ask - is doubling up with prompts from other communities/challenges acceptable? (Sorry if you've already clarified this somewhere and I didn't notice.)

[badly_knitted]

Yep! You can use prompts and challenges from wherever in combination with the ones here.

Pretty much anything goes, to be honest. I want this to be a relaxed place for people to drabble as much or as little as they want. I don't even strictly adhere to deadlines, posting a day or three late won't get you kicked out. The rules are more guidelines that anything, I just swiped them from other communities and adapted them.

Feel free to ask about anything that's not clear.

Happy drabbling!

[pegasuswrites]

Thanks so much! I always felt like this place was pretty relaxed, but it seemed like bad etiquette to just go ahead and do my own thing without asking.

(I haven't been a very active writer this month, but I'm hoping to get my groove back soon...)

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with getting your groove on!

Glad you find this place relaxing, means I must be doing something right!

There'll be a new prompt this evening, at some point, lol!

continuous story through drabble challenges?

[squelettique]

I get the feeling that this might not be possible but I figured I'd ask anyway.

I just had the idea of writing multiple drabbles for multiple challenges as one continuous story? For example I'm doing some of the prompts for amnesty week and the first drabble I wrote is 100 words long and horrifically incomplete theme/plot-wise.

Aka: I would write a drabble for one prompt, 100 words, then move onto another prompt and another 100 words but 'continue on' the plot or from even the same scene so to speak. That's probably getting outside of the spirit of a drabble but again, I thought I'd ask what you thought just in case haha. Even if this might only be a thing for amnesty or for a different challenge community altogether.

I don't even know if I'd post one of these, if I even did it, but again, thought I'd ask. <3

Re: continuous story through drabble challenges?

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like an awesome idea to me! Go ahead, although you might like to put links in pointing the way to the next 'chapter' so people can follow the story along and not have to go searching for the next part. Double drabbles (200 words) are also allowed, so you can write longer chapters if you want.

I believe there's one author who's been doing something similar from the start, continuing her story with each new prompt.

I just post the prompts, how people use them is up to each writer to decide.

Have fun!

Re: continuous story through drabble challenges?

[squelettique]

Woo! Thank you! <3

Re: continuous story through drabble challenges?

[badly_knitted]

You're welcome! I want everybody to have fun writing here, so I try to keep things as relaxed as possible, and provide plenty of leeway for creativity. Telling stories is what this community, and my other one, are all about.

Go forth and write!

[squelettique]

Quick question: Are amnesty rounds two weeks long?

[badly_knitted]

Not usually, but this one is because I forgot to post a new prompt. *headdesk*

Maybe I'll make every 5th Amnesty round two weeks long... I did that for Challenge 100, and this is 150, so...

I will endeavour to remember to post a new prompt on Saturday.

[squelettique]

That'd be pretty cool. Like if someone is having a rough time they have extra time to 'catch up' so to speak lol.

And no worries, forgetting is better than what I was fearing. I just assumed that something had happened or that life got in the way. But when I went to your blog and saw that you'd posted yesterday, and the amnesty stuff doesn't say two weeks, I figured I'd ask lol.

[badly_knitted]

It's always worth asking! I did wonder if I should edit the post, or put up another post to say the Amnesty was continuing, but I'm juggling so much right now - my own writing, daily posts, chores - I wound up not doing either. By the time I remembered I hadn't posted a new challenge it was already Monday night and I didn't want to leave people two days short on writing time.

I'll have to remember on Amnesty 20 to say it'll last 2 weeks. There are of course no limits to how many drabbles you can post for any challenge, the aim here is just to inspire people to write as much or as little as they want.