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[IsabellaRose]

@Gangsta Moll - I think you posted your story in the wrong thread! 

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

2 minutes ago, IsabellaRose said:

@Gangsta Moll - I think you posted your story in the wrong thread! 

My incompetence at texting is legendary

[IsabellaRose]

Challenge 12 is in the books! Click below to vote now for your favorite!

 

[IsabellaRose]

I have enough credits to do another challenge with a 2000/1000/500 1st/2nd/3rd prize, but I lack any ability to come up with something creative.

If anyone has suggestions for a challenge, please post them here.

[Gangsta Moll Deactivated]

I would enjoy a collaborative challenge.

Because I am in introspective mood, I will frame it around that.

Write a few paragraphs of a character introspecting. Then each may add their own character's introspection, inspired and formed by the predecessors but tangentially, not as a direct response. Like a series of soliloquies,  firing off each other but in true Shakespearean fashion apparently unaware of each other's inner thoughts.

OK, that sounds muddled and mad.

And on credits, I don't need them because I love your story challenges: and if anyone does, I will freely offer mine if someone tells me how.

[NyxAvatar69]

On 07/01/2023 at 10:47, IsabellaRose said:

I have enough credits to do another challenge with a 2000/1000/500 1st/2nd/3rd prize, but I lack any ability to come up with something creative.

If anyone has suggestions for a challenge, please post them here.

Personally, I liked the picture prompt challenge.  I was pretty lazy and didn't do the last one even though I had an idea, but even if there's no credits reward, I'd be willing to do another one...especially since I don't need to type on mobile at work at the last 20 minutes this time.

[IsabellaRose]

9 hours ago, NyxAvatar69 said:

Personally, I liked the picture prompt challenge.  I was pretty lazy and didn't do the last one even though I had an idea, but even if there's no credits reward, I'd be willing to do another one...especially since I don't need to type on mobile at work at the last 20 minutes this time.

do you feel like finding some pictures? Maybe I can generate some AI art to inspire people. I dunno. I'm at an all time low for inspiration.

[Mr. Satyr]

Inspiration is fickle lol. I know some days my brain is bursting with ideas and others my muse is blank and/or I get too easily distracted by something else.

[IsabellaRose]

4 minutes ago, Mr. Satyr said:

Inspiration is fickle lol. I know some days my brain is bursting with ideas and others my muse is blank and/or I get too easily distracted by something else.

I get this way this time of year. I'm trying really hard to just power through it, because I'm sick of losing 3-5 months every year in this crazy low. But that's like when you're depressed someone telling you to "just think happy thoughts", because that works so well. 

[Mr. Satyr]

If it helps, one of my strategies for getting inspiration (or just feeling like I've accomplished SOMETHING) is writing a blurb or quick scene. It's usually only a paragraph or two, but sometimes I find a groove and get out more. At the very least, it lets me get an idea or image out of my head to let it incubate.

[IsabellaRose]

Oh, I can write. Just not what I want to write. Depressed ramblings that would embarrass my inner 13-year old emo poet.

[Mr. Satyr]

Lol. I think I understand. I used to keep a journal in high school and wrote cringy poetry and whatever observations I had about life in general. After graduation, I didn't write in the journal again. What would you want to write?

[IsabellaRose]

Right now anything story related. More of my book, a good roleplay, a short story... Seasonal depression and writer's block seem to go hand in hand.

[Mr. Satyr]

Ah yes, writer's block. Sitting in front of a blank screen/page with no idea how to start is a bane of all literature.

 

Do you have a general idea for a story? And will it involve smut?

[IsabellaRose]

I always have ideas. Ideas populate my head like the teeming masses inhabiting a run down dystopian arcology. Right now I just don't have the gumption to write them down.

But all I really want to do is come up with a new writing challenge for this group so it doesn't die along with my inspiration.

[Elena Ichinomiya]

Try a re-run challenge maybe? Most challenge thread i got involved with tend to do this when they a bit run out of steam. Though if i may suggest, maybe we can try a "Still Object" theme such as...oh i don't know, lamp post? Bus stop? Park bench? 

[Mr. Satyr]

I think that sounds like a good idea. 'Re-run' a prompt to see how creative people can be with a premise.

[IsabellaRose]

Challenge 13 is up. Another picture challenge.

[Elena Ichinomiya]

I know AI art can be something but my god, this is gonna be a challenge. Those picture speak nothing to me. But then again, that's why its called challenge but MY GOD! Those picture hate me! 

Time to get those MS Words running again!

[IsabellaRose]

3 minutes ago, Elena Ichinomiya said:

I know AI art can be something but my god, this is gonna be a challenge. Those picture speak nothing to me. But then again, that's why its called challenge but MY GOD! Those picture hate me! 

Time to get those MS Words running again!

I should have let him keep going, but he's flirty and I'm just not into the banter right now, so I took the first passable image he sent.

[Elena Ichinomiya]

Just another day on the internet eh? Well at least we got something to work on now. My first image challenge on this thread!

[Mr. Satyr]

Well, the art is good in all of them. I'm iffy on if they seem more like siblings, friends or lovers. The atmosphere is just before or just after something has happened and I do get a sense of awkwardness or melancholy.....

OK, I'll squeeze something into 2000 words within the week

[IsabellaRose]

Good luck to everyone, and happy writing!

[MynameisAlly]

I hope my story is acceptable. I submitted a literal minute before closing.  Feels like when I submitted a paper a few minutes before deadline, lol. 

[Mr. Satyr]

I know those feels