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The Herald strives to be the one-stop community for writers on Dreamwidth. Here you will find ads and announcements for writing communities, events, contests, and challenges.

Before posting, please head to the community profile and read the rules.

The Herald is interesting in creating and maintaining a list of general writing resources, both on and off Dreamwidth. Said resources are available here. If you would like to add to the list, please leave a comment on that post and the Herald will add your suggestion. If you are suggesting a post on a personal journal that is not your own please ensure that the user will welcome the exposure.

If you have any questions please PM

auguris or leave a comment on this post.

yolomezpa

The writing communities listed below offer weekly prompt challenges. To participate, all you have to do is write fanfics, original stories or poems with the exact word count indicated. All fandoms, languages, genres, characters and pairings welcome.

semidrabbles: 50 words

sesquidrabbles: 150 words

doubledrabbles: 200 words

tripledrabbles: 300 words

Come join the writing fun! :)

clauderainsrm

If you are a refuge from Livejournal, you may know who we are already. LJ Idol is a writing competition/community that has been active since 2006, with nearly a 1,000 writers having passed through our gates, creating over 20,000 pieces of original writing in the process.

If you know who we are, you are probably already on your way over to sign up for the mini season. I look forward to seeing you.

If you don't know, here's the quick version:

- We're community focused on writing on a weekly basis, mixed with my love of competition reality shows (like Survivor, Top Chef, etc)

- There is a prompt every week and a deadline. You write and link your entry.

- All forms of writing and/or creative expression are welcome. (We've had people create comic strips and write songs in previous seasons, to give examples of the "creative expression")

- There is a vote, usually public.

- Someone is eliminated, and we keep doing this until there is 1 winner.

- It's completely free, although for this particular mini season, people have been throwing money into the Community Chest/purse. Half of what is raised will be going to the Final Four. Right now the total is over $150 and growing.

- Sign-ups are happening now and will continue until the end of September. therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/996363.html

I really hope to see you there.

I'm new to DW but would have heard a lot of great things about the site. Right now this is a "pop up" experiment, but I hope to see a lot of new faces that might miss the sense of community of old school Livejournal but with the freedoms of Dreamwidth.

lastdance

verbosity is an encouragement community for writers. If you like colorful graphs and a little social pressure to keep your writing on track, come and check us out. A new challenge starts every week, and daily posts show who's writing and who's lagging behind.

Also, if you're doing Camp NaNo this month, it's not too late to join us for Week #1.

tanager

Calling out to all original fiction

Readers… have an idea you're dying to read, but no one's written?

Writers… seeking inspiration? want to write for a captive audience?

I created

we_prompt because I wanted to fill readers' original fiction prompts, but couldn't find a listing of them anywhere. We Prompt aims to connect writers seeking inspiration with the ideas that readers would love to read.

Submit your prompt! Browse the open prompts! Spread the word! The more readers submitting and writers browsing prompts, the better it'll help eager readers and inspiration-seeking writers everywhere.

ysabetwordsmith

Nominations are currently OPEN for the 2013 Rose & Bay Awards. This award recognizes excellence in crowdfunded material.

Art:

ysabetwordsmith Nominate art! (0 nominees)
Fiction:

ysabetwordsmith Nominate fiction! (4 nominees)
Poetry:

kajones_writing Nominate poetry! (2 nominees)
Webcomic:

ysabetwordsmith Nominate webcomics! (5 nominees)
Other Project:

ysabetwordsmith Nominate other projects! (0 nominees)
Patron:

kajones_writing Nominate patrons! (4 nominees)

Eligibility period: January 1, 2012-December 31, 2012
Nomination period: January 1, 2013-January 31, 2013
Voting period: February 1, 2013-February 28, 2013

One of the awesome things about the crowdfunding business model is that it breaks the stranglehold of mainstream publishing. This encourages people to publish material on topics they love for niche markets that mainstream editors would never accept. Publishing is a popular category on the crowdfunding hubs like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. What crowdfunded projects did you enjoy last year? Who did the most innovative characterization? Which artists were doing cover illustrations? Who hosted prompt calls where you could ask for things you liked? Nominate them in the relevant category. Did you know folks who helped support those projects with donations? Nominate them as patrons!

Please drop by to nominate your favorite crowdfunded projects from 2013. Post about the award in any relevant venue to help alert more people.

Current Mood: busy

butterflydreaming

I am boosting the signal on these sub calls for Elm Books. My experience with them has been very good. Get paid for writing a story that you love.

WANT TO WRITE ABOUT MAGIC, LUST & LOVE?
Plot:
We are looking for romance stories taking place in fantastical settings for our upcoming collection, Fae Love. Stories can be set in either completely imagined alternative realities or diverse ordinary places with a bit of magic. Good stories will be rich in detail and include solid doses of lust, fickle love, jealousy, and adventure, heat level 2.5 to 4 out of five. 3000-10,000 words. No vampires.
DEADLINE: February 1. Initial inquiries, rough outlines, or early drafts welcome.
CONTACT: LilyCallahan75@gmail.com. Free sample PDF story if interested.

THINK YOU CAN WRITE A MYSTERY?
We’re looking for short stories (2,000-10,000 words) for our upcoming anthology, Death and the Detective. We’re happy to work with new, as well as seasoned writers. Here are the particulars:
PLOT:
-There must be a detective: cop, PI, hotel detective, security guard, insurance investigator, arson investigator, casino in-house security, local Miss Marple or whatever. Your main character must be a professional or recognized investigator of some sort.
-There must be death: accidental, purposeful, suicide, attempted, past, future, cold case…it doesn’t matter. Your plot must revolve around a death.
-Diverse heroes and heroines welcome.
DEADLINE: February 15, 2013.
CONTACT: Jess Faraday, editor at: editorjessfaraday@hotmail.com. Free sample PDF story available.

PAYMENT & TERMS
All accepted stories will appear in both the print and e-book versions of the anthology. Authors are paid quarterly royalties based on sales. We use an adapted EPIC contract.

cottoncandymods

Cotton Candy Bingo is a bingo challenge geared toward creative works that produce warm, fuzzy feelings in their creators and viewers alike. Like other bingo challenges, participants are given a 5 x 5 card filled with prompts – 24 of them randomly generated, and a wild card in the center for the participant to use as they wish. The participants may then write stories, poems, essays, meta, or many other other forms of writing, or they may make other creative works based on each prompt, ultimately aiming toward achieving a bingo. All fandoms are welcome, as are original works.

Our main goal at

cottoncandy_bingo is promoting happy creativity. We offer a large number of prompts, and, with that, the freedom to veto individual prompts or entire categories of prompts when signing up, and the chance to interpret and fill each prompt in many different ways – we're pretty flexible. If something makes you happy and will probably make someone else happy, then it's probably welcome at

cottoncandy_bingo.

Sign-ups opened August 5^th, and they will run until December 1^st. The first round officially ends on December 31^st, and the amnesty period begins January 1, 2013, and runs until July 1^st.

We hope to have more people come and play with us!

muse_mod

musewrite

THERE'S NOTHING TO WRITING.
ALL YOU DO IS SIT DOWN AT A TYPEWRITER AND OPEN A VEIN.
-Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith

It's just another community to try to give that pesky muse the inspiration to talk through prompts. Here there are no muse limits. There are no activity checks. Just watch the community for new prompts and get to answering and writing!
A list of prompts can be found HERE.

Watch the community

Prompts will go up every two weeks.

Answer as many prompts as you like in character.

Post to community with your prompt responses from your muse's journal.

Write. Spread the word. Pimp. Enjoy.

cesy

dailyprompt there is a prompt of some sort posted each day. The idea is that you reply in the comments with fic, poetry, art, or anything else inspired by the prompt. You can also go back and respond to older prompts if any of them catch your eye.

ysabetwordsmith

I run the community

crowdfunding for creators and patrons interested in this business model. Crowdfunding is all about creative people and their audiences interacting to generate and publicize great stuff. We use it for writing, art, music, and all kinds of other projects. If you want to make money from your writing, but you're doing something off the beaten path that doesn't seem to grab conventional editors, consider marketing it direct to your fans. There are tips on how to do that here.

Once a month, we hold a Crowdfunding Creative Jam. The next one will be Sunday, August 19-Monday, August 20 with a theme of "preservation/conservation." Come leave prompts for people to create goodies for your, or claim prompts as inspiration for your own writing.

People post about a lot of great writing projects on

crowdfunding -- both ones they write and ones they read. Here are some examples you might like to explore ...

kajones_writing runs over a dozen series, mostly fantasy, some horror and other genres. You can prompt for new stories or request continuations of current ones. There's a credit program where you can earn perks by boosting the signal, spotting typos, etc. and use those to adopt characters or do other cool stuff. I have a recent analysis post here.

Torn World is a science fantasy shared world. Sometimes we announce events such as our Muse Fusion, where folks can prompt for story ideas or characters they'd like.

Aether Dancer is a steampunk shared world, centered around a webseries that's currently running a fundraiser campaign. It's open source, which means everyone is welcome to create characters and write about them. You can read my story, "Finding the Library."

My Poetry Fishbowl project runs once a month on

ysabetwordsmith. I set a theme, people give me prompts, and I write poetry based on whatever I get. There are individual and collective perks for donations. See the landing page for more details; see the poem tag or the serial poetry page for samples of my work. The next session will be Tuesday, August 7 with a theme of "modern myths."

If you enjoy writing and/or reading, please drop by

crowdfunding and join the fun!

Current Mood: busy

auguris

A prompt community in the tradition of

fanfic100. Write 100 original stories, in the same setting, based on a table of words and phrases.

originalfic100

auguris

A prompt community aimed at original works. Prompts are posted twice a week, the first a general prompt and the second meant to inspire character development.

stayintheroom

auguris

Craft Advice

Cartographer's Guild: Cartographical Economics and Demographics - A Guide to Realism

Elizabeth Barrette: Cut to the Core
Elizabeth Barrette: So Your Story Needs a Prophecy
Elizabeth Barrette: Building a Fantasy World
Elizabeth Barrette: Worldbuilding II: Answering Questions
Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Exercise: Using the JerkMuse
Elizabeth Barrette: Thoughts on Rhyming Poetry

Pretentious Title: How I Went From Writing 2,000 Words a Day to 10,000 Words a Day
Pretentious Title: How I Plot A Novel in 5 Steps
Pretentious Title: Editing for People Who Hate Editing

Terrible Minds: 25 Reasons I Hate Your Main Character

Business Advice

Crowdfunding / Cyberfunded Creativity An excellent collection of resources explaining what crowdfunding is and how to get started.

Elizabeth Barrette: Writing Contracts
Elizabeth Barrette: Master List of Interview Questions for Writers

Blogs

Chuck Wendig: Terrible Minds Advice, challenges, interviews, and personal posts on The Life. Swears creatively and often.

Rachel Aaron: Pretentious Title Advice and personal posts on writing.

Programs/Applications

CopyWrite Mac OS X 10.3 and up; $24.99 USD

Evernote Available on most platforms; Limited free use; Premium account is $5 USD/month or $45 USD/year

PortableApps Windows (32 & 64-bit) 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8 + Wine under Linux/Unix/BSD/Mac OS X; Free
     Specific Apps:
     Dictionary
     Procrastination
     Internet tools
     Create a book cover with Gimp & InkScape
     Create an audiobook
     Word Processors: Open Office | Libre Office | Focus Writer
     Remember to take breaks

Scrivener Mac OS X 10.4 and up; $45 USD; Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7; $40 USD

Word Counter A simple web-based application that does what it says.

yWriter Supports Windows XP, Vista "and beyond." Earlier versions of Windows are not supported; Free

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Four new prompt challenge communities for writers

therealljidol Presents: Literary Prize Fight

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Rose and Bay Awards

Two Anthologies seeking short stories

cottoncandy_bingo

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