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Sheltering in place? Locked down? Self-isolating? Next Wednesday, March 25, we are going to hold Lockdown Instadrabbling on the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild Discord server to spend time with fellow fans (while practicing social distancing!) and bring art and joy to the world at a time when it very much needs it. I will be online to start us off at 8 AM Eastern Time, but anyone who wants to start earlier should feel free to do so.
What is instadrabbling? Traditionally, instadrabbling involves a group of writers getting together, choosing four random words from a book, and using those four words to write and share drabbles (exactly 100 words). However, since at the SWG, we are much more about creativity than conformity, we welcome all Tolkien fanworks creators (not just Silmarillion and not just writers) to come together and make and share fannish things. We’ll certainly be drabbling to traditional prompts during that time, but all are welcome to write, create, read, squee, and just hang out!
Open invites to our server are temporarily closed, but anyone who wishes to join us can email us at [email protected] or PM me on any of my social media platforms, and I will send an invite to join the server now. On the day of instadrabbling, I will open and post an invite across all of our spaces for those who want to participate.
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Date: 2020-03-21 07:05 pm (UTC)One of my favorite non-drabble mini-creations is the Three-sentence Fic. Less counting and more room for originality and self-expression. One only has to be able to count to three.
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Date: 2020-03-22 12:13 am (UTC)(Or more likely using semicolons to cheat. My homeroom last year was rather rambly so I'd often restrict their weekend share to three sentences, and I had a student who would cheat with semicolons: "I went hunting this weekend, semicolon, I got a deer, semicolon, it weighed 150 lbs, semicolon, I was so proud, semicolon, my parents spent all Sunday cleaning it." Times three. That would totally be me. :D)
I really cannot overemphasize that we want creativity and not conformity, so please do not allow your dislike of the drabble keep you from joining. We always have a few people doing something different, either ficlets without caring about word count or art or something totally different.
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Date: 2020-03-22 01:29 am (UTC)ROTFL!! I'd give that kid an A! Ha! And then make him explain to the class why that is cheating and he knows it! Maybe just a couple of semicolons.
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Date: 2020-03-22 02:04 am (UTC)I eventually had to make a rule about semicolons during morning share. I also had to make a rule with him about when he could ask me for feedback because he'd bring me his writing to read, and I'd say, "Wait ... I read this last time? What's different?"
"Oh, I changed this word here." Or: "Oh, I fixed that typo you highlighted."
And I'd be like, "Dude! Bring this back when you have actual revisions to show me!"
Like I said, overachiever. :D
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Date: 2020-03-22 12:08 am (UTC)Mods pin the prompts so that as people join, they can write for any of the prompt sets they want.
But I cannot emphasize enough that the purpose is creativity, not conformity, so we have always had people join us who are doing something completely different, or we'll break our own mold by offering prompts outside the usual format.