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[chimney_swipe]

Quick post here as a question to anyone who is reading this:

Are there any good writing prompt communities out there? Or drawing/art prompt communities for that matter.

I realize that I do really well with prompts. It won't often occur to me to write or draw anything out of the blue, but I think it would be cool if I joined a community that provides prompts every so often. I'll keep looking, myself. I feel like it's been hard to find one that isn't fandom specific or just drabble prompts, but I haven't spent that much time looking yet. Just thought I'd ask. :>

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[grinn]

If you find any good ones let me know. They're going to do one on the side7 forums next month but it's all unicorns, haha. I might join in anyway and see how it goes.

[chimney_swipe]

unicorns, huh! i'm terrible at drawing horses. a good reason for me to do it... or not do it... I'm not sure. xD

does side7 do prompts/challenges like that often? maybe i'll join it anyhow, might help to be part of an art community (that isnt DA, DA is unusable these days, seems like). and forums sound nice. it's been a while since i've used a forum and the memories are fond!

someone just recommended fandomweekly for writing prompts so I might try that!

[grinn]

Side7 is kind of trying to come back from the dead so this is the first one. Hopefully there will be more and the forums will perk up a little. There are little stirrings of activity but nothing has seemed to stick yet (I keep forgetting to check in -_- I'm guessing everyone else is kind of in the same boat).

I will check out fandomweekly :D

[femboy]

Check out fandomweekly. It's a "multifandom weekly fic challenge community where participants write a short story based on a prompt". If you don't want or need the accountability of writing together with others, you can check out dailyprompt and daily_prompt which are both inactive but can still be browsed. I haven't found active communities that aren't restricted to drabbles or aren't long challenges with specific deadlines.

[chimney_swipe]

thanks, i will definitely check these out! multifandom is great, I was feeling like some of the more fandom-specific ones also had prompts that were too specific.

[satismagic]

Not a community, but a method:

1. grab a thesaurus or dictionary, open a random page,
2. close your eyes point somewhere on the page: this is your random word!

Write or art about that word. Or collect several words and use all of them.

(Or use a random word generator to get a random word, like this one: https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator)

I used to do a lot of drabble writing using that method (true drabbles of exactly 100 words), and it was always inspiring and challenging.

[chimney_swipe]

Good idea!! thanks for that link, too. I could possibly even expand that idea to like, random color palettes or use my music on shuffle and make myself draw/write something based off the music... hm....