The Crowdfunding Creative Jam is running February 14-15 on
Dreamwidth and
LiveJournal. The theme is "resources." Come give us prompts or claim ideas for your own inspiration!
What I Have Written"
Disconnected" -- In today's freebie, Officer RAT has another misadventure.
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Tools and Toys"
From this I got the free-verse poem "Tools and Toys." Aquariana discovers that her dolphin friends make toys and tools out of air bubbles and have a more sophisticated grasp of technology than humans realized.
326 lines, Buy It Now = $163"Heart upon a Chain"
This mixed with
nineforthenebulasheart to inspire the indriso "Heart upon a Chain." Some time after the quest, Paul gives the Heart to someone else.
8 lines, Buy It Now = $5
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To Choose a Direction"
This inspired the free-verse poem "To Choose a Direction." Merle contemplates the dilemma of academic specialization and finds a creative solution.
53 lines, Buy It Now = $20Thinking about connections led me to a pair of poems about Glyn and Ruggiero, tying into some stuff that
dialecticdreamer is working on, written in unrhymed tercets.
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The Strength to Persevere" explores how Glyn views Ruggiero as a protector and a source of motivation, and she doesn't know if he quite gets the importance of that.
36 lines, Buy It Now = $15"
The Treasure of Happiness" reveals how Ruggiero sees Glyn and precious and resourceful, even though he knows she doesn't see herself that way.
48 lines, Buy It Now = $20 They're still working through some communication challenges, but they're so good for each other, these two.
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Often Buried Deep"
From this came the free-verse poem "Often Buried Deep." It follows Astin on a loop around the trade circuit, and then back to the warehouse at Trunnion, connecting the dots.
328 lines, Buy It Now = $164
"Anahata" This is a free-verse poem about Betty Ross and Bruce Banner doing yoga together.
70 lines, free
From My Prompts
dialecticdreamer has written a poem based on
my prompt about Sabine, which will be posted in full on Monday.
EDIT 2/17/15: You can now read "
Textures of Family" on her website.
mdlbear wrote the poem "
Round dance, 2138" from my prompt about the Moon. It's a lovely bit of lunar description.
zeeth_kyrah wrote "
Traders and Keepers" about my prompt of women in a market.