…But I don’t know what else to call them. I’m not going to keep track of who’s doing what, so people can pretty much jump in and do whatever ones they want as often as they want, I probably won’t even do all of them every week. But I will try to at least consistently post them.
On Mondays I’ll post a week’s worth of daily writing prompts, probably first line story starters and things like that, and a week’s worth of art prompts, just for quick projects or doodles for fun, they’ll probably just be one word inspirations rather than explicit instructions so that artists of any medium can do them.
I’m also going to do Story Starter Saturday, (I like alliteration) where I’ll give a character, setting, or culture to write about, (most of them will probably come from Seventh Sanctum so if you don’t like the ones I give you you can get other ones) they’ll probably be sci-fi or fantasy, (whereas the daily prompts will probably be things that can be used for most genres). These starters will be for slightly bigger projects, a weekly short story. If people aren’t into sci-fi or fantasy they can always keep going from one of the daily prompts.
My suggestion is to write Nanowrimo style (quantity over quality) though that could be because that’s how I write pretty much everything, (you no matter how much you work at it you’re always going to have to go back and edit your first draft). I figure minimum length for a short story is 7000 words, and I can write at least 1000 words in half an hour so I can get a short story done in a week of writing half an hour a day. But you can always write more or less. Another suggestion from Nanowrimo, don’t reread your work for at least a week or two after it’s done so you can get some distance. You’ll probably like it better then.
For a bigger weekly art project I was actually thinking of doing something that we did in my high school art class. We took an inanimate object (the same one every time so it’s best if you either have the object itself or a reference picture) and each week you had to make it express something different. At the time we were doing textures or something like that, (I remember melting and furry I think). This time I’m thinking of trying to express emotion through the object. I think it should be a fun challenge, especially for people interested in comic art since they’d have to know body language really well.
For people who don’t like the inanimate object project could use the story starters from Seventh Sanctum as an alternative for ideas. But again, you’d have to be into sci-fi and fantasy, (though I suppose it’s fair to assume most people reading this blog would be).
