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Fandom Snowflake Challenge - Day 6
Day 6
In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it.
I'm going to steal (and minimize) a chapter from the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
getyourwordsout community and put forth this challenge: Get Your [something] Out!
Every day, I challenge you to write something. Anything. No word count goal, no big ambitions, anything will so: A single sentence. A fragment of dialog. A list of characters you would like to write about. A vague idea for a story. A line that you think would make a great title for something. A bunch of unrelated words that you think are beautiful or powerful or evocative that you would like to incorporate into something else someday. It needn't have anything to do with anything you are working on-- just find some words and get them out.
If you are an artist, pick your medium and do something with it: sketch the most inchoate thumbnail. Slap some paint on a paper in a pallette of colors that appeals to you. Find a study photograph that inspires you. Take the smallest of steps toward creating something larger.
If you are a reviewer, think of a story you been meaning to review and just jot down some adjectives that the story brought to mind. You can formulate a thorough review later-- for now, just think of the story and what it brought to mind.
If you are a vidder, list a couple of songs that inspire you, or make a list of movies/episodes/characters that you'd like to incorporate. If you're really inspired, list some specific scenes you'd like to use in your next work.
Whatever your creative medium, take a baby step EVERY DAY. Some days, you may be prepared to take giant leaps, to write your entire NaNo story in an hour. Some days, you may just need to make a single line on the paper. It's a start. It's enough.
Here's mine from yesterday, which has absolutely nothing to do with anything:
The night they burned the fields, the sun melted low across the edge of the earth like it might have set the fire itself, outraged at the coming of night. Families gathered on their porches to watch the billowing black smoke. The children ran like feral dogs, whooping and hollering, excited at being allowed to stay up past their bedtimes, taking advantage of their parents' distraction. Some of the women cried, but did so softly, damping their tears in their aprons and not making a sound. The men, some of them, clustered around their last bottles of spirits to drown their sorrows. Others stood alone, bitter-lipped and rock-jawed, and watched their crops devoured by the flames.
In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it.
I'm going to steal (and minimize) a chapter from the
getyourwordsout community and put forth this challenge: Get Your [something] Out!Every day, I challenge you to write something. Anything. No word count goal, no big ambitions, anything will so: A single sentence. A fragment of dialog. A list of characters you would like to write about. A vague idea for a story. A line that you think would make a great title for something. A bunch of unrelated words that you think are beautiful or powerful or evocative that you would like to incorporate into something else someday. It needn't have anything to do with anything you are working on-- just find some words and get them out.
If you are an artist, pick your medium and do something with it: sketch the most inchoate thumbnail. Slap some paint on a paper in a pallette of colors that appeals to you. Find a study photograph that inspires you. Take the smallest of steps toward creating something larger.
If you are a reviewer, think of a story you been meaning to review and just jot down some adjectives that the story brought to mind. You can formulate a thorough review later-- for now, just think of the story and what it brought to mind.
If you are a vidder, list a couple of songs that inspire you, or make a list of movies/episodes/characters that you'd like to incorporate. If you're really inspired, list some specific scenes you'd like to use in your next work.
Whatever your creative medium, take a baby step EVERY DAY. Some days, you may be prepared to take giant leaps, to write your entire NaNo story in an hour. Some days, you may just need to make a single line on the paper. It's a start. It's enough.
Here's mine from yesterday, which has absolutely nothing to do with anything:
The night they burned the fields, the sun melted low across the edge of the earth like it might have set the fire itself, outraged at the coming of night. Families gathered on their porches to watch the billowing black smoke. The children ran like feral dogs, whooping and hollering, excited at being allowed to stay up past their bedtimes, taking advantage of their parents' distraction. Some of the women cried, but did so softly, damping their tears in their aprons and not making a sound. The men, some of them, clustered around their last bottles of spirits to drown their sorrows. Others stood alone, bitter-lipped and rock-jawed, and watched their crops devoured by the flames.
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I'm going to try and dig them all out this weekend and put some order to it. Maybe I'll post some more of the rough scenes under an f-lock. ;)
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Maybe as you post snippets and people comment and ask questions, the original outline will start coming back?
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A girl can dream, right?!
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Or would be, if only I could remember what my intentions for it were.
At least it has a soundtrack!! ;)
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16HP is on heavy rotation on my iPod. Their "Hutterite Mile" made it on to my writing (or rather, "get the Dark Muse into the mood to write") playlist for Winter's Drums.
Playlist is on 8tracks here. Also has the Johnny Cash cover of "Hurt." And other things. This playlist, solely because of 16HP, I think, has directed me to a bunch of Southern Gothic playlists on 8tracks which have been neat discoveries.
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Here's one of my recent ones-- probably skews a little too modern to be truly dark Americana, but has a shared sensibility. If Rdio hadn't gone the way of the dodo, I could link you to it. It's just on my Apple Music account.
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- Erulisse (one L)
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This really resonates with me. I have tried to commit to creating something every day before (several times) but I have always stumbled because I expected to create something finished every time I sat down. So this year I have decided to do exactly as you suggest here. Anything counts! Even the doodle on the border of my notes from department meetings. ;) I started Monday, and only really managed to draw 6 panel borders for the next page in a comic. But it made it easier to move to the next step the following day. :)
I liked the scene you put here! And I hope both of us can keep up doing even small things every day! Thanks for the inspiration.
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ANYTHING COUNTS! THIS IS OUR RALLYING CRY!
(I feel like I need to queue up some Depeche Mode...) ;)
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the self-defeating spiral of "geeez, I couldn't even manage 100 words!"
Exactly!! It's about letting up the pressure, which makes it easier (at least it seems to for me) to find the motivation to sit down even when you really only have 10 minutes and you know it's just going to be some lines on paper.
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I'll start posting the bits under a filter; you have been warned that it is utterly incoherent, has no through lines, and goes nowhere, but I feel like there's a germ in there, somewhere. It's not really steampunk, per se, but it exists in some sort of alternate Great Depression universe.
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Beautiful passage you wrote, btw. It makes me wonder what this story is.
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