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

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

*waves* Got yourself a member! ^.^

[badly_knitted]

WOO HOO! Thank you =D

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

I just thought of something.

If multiple drabbles are put in one post, does each one need its own header (if they're not part of one story)?

[badly_knitted]

I would say so, yes, so people have some idea of what each is about. Probably, most people posting more than one in a post will be linking back from their journal and will just post a bunch of headers and links. I'll see how things go. If necessary I'll add that to the rules, though I'm hoping to avoid editing again unless I have to because of having to re-format the darn post on LJ. The gaps in the posting window get bigger and bigger just to keep a small space between rules o_O

[sidonie]

Thanks for setting up this community! One small question – would you mind clarifying which warnings are needed? Things like rape/non-con are obvious, but I wouldn't have necessarily thought to warn for something like suicide. Also, is it OK to use a choose not to warn option?

[badly_knitted]

I'm trying to keep things pretty relaxed, so basically if you think something may be a trigger you can warn for it, if you don't want to be specific you can say something like 'may contain triggers' or something like that.

It's also perfectly okay to use a 'choose not to warn' designation. I'm not going to be jumping down anyone's throat over warnings, I'm mostly leaving it to the writers' discretion.

With such short snippets there's little room to be horrifyingly graphic anyway. Coming up with the rules, I borrowed and adapted bits from other communities, so the warnings section is probably a bit of overkill and a lot less important than potential spoilers.

You're welcome, I just wanted somewhere drabblers of all fandoms could have fun writing, so I hope you're enjoying yourself with the prompts!

[prisca]

I'm just wondering if it would be okay to pimp our multifandom community here.

It's FFFC - we are at LJ for quite a while already but think it's about time to expand a bit. Now all we need is to get some users who are willing to play ;)

[badly_knitted]

Ooooh, that looks like a fun community members here might well be interested in!

Go ahead and pimp away =) Please label you post Community Pimp: and the community name, so members can see it clearly. I'll add a community pimp tag too. That way pimping posts will be easier to find.

I might even join myself... Not sure I can fit any more challenges into my schedule though o_O

[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!

[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.

[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!

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!

[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.

[falkner]

Does the community have an AO3 collection?

[badly_knitted]

Not yet, but I might look into that when I can spare the time and the brainpower.

[squelettique]

I have a question: I've recently written a drabble for 100 words but I'm also writing a longer piece that includes those 100 words. Can I still post the drabble here? (for the next amnesty round lol)

Also (for future drabbles, especially the amnesty ones). Can I post those to my account before I put them up here? I don't want to have a huge backlog of prompts to format and post, it'd make it easier for me if I already had the post ready on my own journal...



...this is also me assuming that I can work on amnesty prompts (but not post them) outside of the actual amnesty week.......... is that allowed?

[badly_knitted]

Yes, yes, yes, and yes *grins*

Posting to your journal and leaving a header and link here is fine, and you don't need to restrict writing for amnesty to the Amnesty weeks, you can write whenever and just post links here during the amnesty week. You can also put several headers and links into one post if you have a lot to link to. instead of making individual posts for each one.

You'll find there are very few (if any) restrictions around here; I just want people who enjoy drabbling to have fun with the prompts.

Go forth and drabble!

[veronyxk84]

Hi,
I scrolled the comments and I don't think I've seen this asked before... hopefully I didn't miss it.
During amnesty weeks is it allowed to use multiple prompts in one single work?
For example, I have a double drabble that fits 2 of the past prompts.
Can I use both or should I choose just one of them?
Thank you in advance, have a nice day. :)

[badly_knitted]

You can use as many prompts as you like in a drabble, just remember to tag with all the prompts you use. Awesome that your drabble fits two prompts. Well done! =D

Happy drabbling!

[topaz_eyes]

Hello there, I have a 200-word drabble I've written for Three Sentence Ficathon that also fits the prompt for this week (#436, "Mud"). May I post it here as well, or should I keep it separate?

[badly_knitted]

Post away, that's brilliant, well done! As long as it fits the post, it's fine. Never a problem with combining challenges, even if it technically wasn't written for this one =D