Creative Jamming

Torn World's Muse Fusion is happening, as is crowdfunding 's Creative Jam (Creative Jam on Live Journal and Creative Jam on Dreamwidth)

I hope to see you at one or both places!

New creators are welcome at Torn World--there's a link to our guidelines in the Muse Fusion post, or you can use our prompts to make something in your own worlds, and simply share it with us as inspired by Torn World.

Now I'm going to go read all the prompts and start creating!  Perhaps I'll grab some prompts from each page--I often find the intersection of different ideas leads to better stories than using just one. 

If your prompt helps me to creatre a story, poem, or artwork (even if there were also five others that also did), I'll share it with you for free, privately, regardless of the eventual fate of the story.  I'll also share at least one thing I create this weekend in my journal so everyone gets a taste of what my creative weekend was like.

So thank you for the prompts!


ETA:  What happened to the function that let me link to Life Journal accounts from here?  Oh well, post edited to be more sightly, if slightly less functional.  If you want to find us there, Torn World's live journal community is called Torn_World, and Crowdfunding's is spelled exactly as it is here.

Muse Fusion Prompts

Since LJ is down, here's a reference copy of the prompts so far:

From Wyld_Dandelyon:  Prompts!
The latest fad among Affamarg teenagers.
The latest fad in Affanumuur (Shameless City).
Fashions for Toddlers

The coolest new toy

Invasive insects or rodents
Fossils (maybe living fossils?)
A soft-shell critter that's good eating, if you prepare it right
Tiny Relatives of the Jellyrigger

New "mystery art" -- Character portraits to be identified later (I'd love some Land Priestess art! A few of them are described in this story.)

From Ellenmillion:   Here are a few prompts before I head back to bed again:

A dangerous fad
Fashionably late
Exotic spice
Shoes in blue
Silk and summer lilies


From ysabetwordsmith:  Prompts

Image Prompts:
Here are some fashion colors, including the daffy names:
http://www.fashiontrendsetter.com/contents/main/2010/Pantone-Fall-2010-Colors.jpg
A collection of fancy necklines, without names so they can be given Southern ones:
http://worddreams.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/necklines.jpg
Pest control chart; it would be cool to have something like this for the South with a hole mouse, stickleg, half-leg, etc.
http://www.bedbug911.com/images/pest-chart.jpg
This artic food web would be wonderful if redone for the North:
http://amap.no/acia/Files/MarineFoodWeb_150.jpg
Tusk shells, a type of arctic sea shell:
http://www.arcodiv.org/seabottom/Scaphopoda.html

Title Prompts:
A Scarf the Color of Sunrise
The Perfect Dress
Designs on a Snow-Unicorn
The Patterns of Failure
For a Day

Text Prompts:
"I dare you to try it!"
An Ancient fad preserved in the remnants of the Ruined Port.
Songs that turn into earworms because they're so popular that everyone is singing them, and a week later everyone is sick of hearing them.
A new type of Ancient bead is discovered near Itakith, and everyone wants one, but there aren't enough to go around, so fights break out.
"Don't look at me. You know I never follow fashions."

ankewehner wrote:

Sticky Situation
Bright yellow and red
Courtship display

vaerys wrote:  Prompts

furshirt
clothes of mythology
a dress made from Rainbow forest plants
a simple banquet