Okay! So the next thing on my list of things to write this weekend is a setting piece.
Dragons next Door won the setting-piece poll (Dreamwidth) by a landslide, 7 to 4 vote each for the 2 runners-up.
So I’ll be writting a page of Encyclopedia Draconica this evening.
And then a piece of Encyclopedia Stranded Or Reiassan.
What would you like to know about these settings?
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With a Giraffe Call coming tomorrow and a more-urgent-than-usual need for the income, I’ve been pondering the incentive levels.
The current donation incentives are:
Everyone who donates gets 100 words per dollar on their giraffe call of choice.
In addition, there are group-levels based on total donation level:
$35- 1000-2000-word fic on the subject of the audience’s choice. (I always reach this level)
$65- 2 microfics for every prompter (I get here about half the time)
$95- write EVERY prompt (I’ve gotten here once)
$120 – podcast of a story and double wordcount for donors (I never reach this level)
$150 – ebook of fiction for this call & last one (I never reach this level)
There is a linkback-incentive story as well, updated 50-words per linkback, and a new-commentor/donor incentive piece written about the setting.
There’s a poll up from the last giraffe call here and here)
My questions:
Do the current incentives serve to incentivize people?
What might better encourage donation/participation, if anything?
Thanks!
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If I do this meme – http://oslusiadas.tumblr.com/post/12753421291/30-days-of-character-development – which I’m thinking of doing (it’s short) – which character would you like to see me do it for?
Any setting, any character.
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Yesterday night I posted a summary (and on LJ) of October’s Spooks and Creeps Giraffe Call.
Looking at incentives:
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Guys! I totally saw a fox this morning! On my way to work, there was a fox (a little red one) trotting across a neighbor’s yard!!!!
Hee!
Aside from that, I have
3 bug bites
2 tomatoes
and
1 happy/tired from my parents’ visit yesterday & tuesday.
I have no closing date for the house yet (boo hiss)
and a living room full of boxes (Yay T.)
Pondering another prompt day (Since I came up with a prompt). When is best for you: weekend/weekday, soon/later, morning/evening (EST)?
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When I was a kid, my parents and I used to play the “what do you think their story is?” game, making up stories about everyday situations. People don’t seem to like to play this anymore, but I could use it today.
(fear of conflict means, it seems, other people’s conflict stresses me out.)
Overheard, in the Greyhound (bus station) parking lot, a couple with luggage in and around a car:
Person One: (Inarticulate screaming)
Person Two: “I made you my fucking wife and you piss[ed] all over [pronoun uncertain? me, it?]”
Person One: (more screaming)
(note: they are still moving around the car, moving luggage)
Person Two: “You fucking disgust me!”
Traffic light changes, and I drive away.
So… what do you think their story is? Feel free to be as ridiculous, fantastical, strange, out there, weird, as you like
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I finished a line of Kink Bingo!
Which line of my card should I do next? Either a horizontal line or, since I have ideas for another story for Sense Dep. and Marking, one of the vertical lines headed by those topics.
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So!
I’m working on putting together something like Ysabetwordsmith‘s http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/serial-poetry.html list of her serial poetry, and I’m trying to come up with images for each series.
I have pictures for a couple: http://pics.livejournal.com/aldersprig/gallery/0000wx38
After eseme‘s suggestion, TirNaCali is a map, showing the split (yes, I’m missing Baja. Sigh. I’ll need to add it)
The path is for Rin & Girey/Reiassan
Probably something like this – http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewvenn/3026210580/in/photostream/ – for the Vas series.
That leaves: fae apoc and its subseries. I have some art for Addergoole, but nothing for faeapoc as a whole.
And Stranded.
Ideas?
Heard this on the radio and it was too cool not to share:
Tell me, what makes you awesome? What about you makes you a cool human being?
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recessional
Name a character I’ve written about, and I will tell you three things that I think are essential to keep in mind when writing that character.
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