Drakeathon Begin!
Feb. 19th, 2011 08:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aldersprig
The Drakeathon Begins!
Free Fiction From Your Prompts!
During the Drakeathon hours (8 p.m. - midnight EST Saturday and 2 - 6 p.m. EST Sunday), leave a prompt or request and I will write 50 words on that prompt and post it here.
Donate to the Drake Fund and I'll write 300 words on your prompt for every $5 you donate (up to $50/3000 words); additional perks for donors are listed below.
Signal boosting adds 50 words to the count; someone showing up from your signal boost adds another 50.
The first 3 free prompts each hour and every paid prompt are guaranteed to be written; paid prompts of over 1000 words may be finished after the 'thon but within 30 days.
If I write to your prompt I will post it to the blog or as a comment in the Drakeathon thread, with the name of the prompter (or another dedicatee if you wish); plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact.
If I merge prompts I will add wordcounts together, thus your 50-word prompt may be part of a 100- or 350-word story, for example.
Prompts should be left as a comment to a Dreamwidth or LJ Drakeathon post.
Donor Perks
* Your Prompt /will/ get written.
* You will be invited to a googledoc to watch me write in real time.
Other perks vary with the total donations I receive:
If I reach $75, everyone who donates will get a printed-and-snailmailed or pdf-and-e-mailed prettified version of the story from their prompt
If I reach $150, there will be an e-book of the stories from these prompts; sponsors will get a free copy
If I reach $225, the e-book will include a never-before-seen short story of 1500-3000 words written for this anthology
If I reach $300, there will be a print book, and donors will receive a discount on said book.
If I reach $375, the e- and print book will have professional art for the covers & a second new short story.
What won't you write?
Anything that really squicks me. That's generally limited to sexual situations involving food, former food, dead things, or kids, but hardcore torture has been known to bother me, too.
Fanfic, or pieces set in other people's universes, unless it is your universe and you are asking me to write it, or if it's my universe.
Anything involving hurting animals. Especially cats. :-(
So what should I prompt you on?
Almost anything! If you want 150 words on daffodils, I shall give you 150 words on daffodils! If you'd like a short piece of erotica, I'm more than willing.
There are a few exceptions, see below.
If you're stumped, I have several years' of fiction in my livejournal. Try these tags for ideas:
More, Please - stories people have asked me to continue
FaeApoc - the setting in which my ongoing webserial Addergoole is set
Rin & Girey - a fantasy semi-romance abduction series
Cali - a slavery-and-porn series, sometimes with future!catpeople
"Vas" - a new series of short-shorts of planet exploration and unexpected findings.
If you're here from Addergoole, yes, I will write Addergoole or Wild Ones Stories.
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Date: 2011-02-20 02:10 am (UTC)also RTed you, I don't know if that counts
Prompt: more about these folks http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/5609.html
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Date: 2011-02-20 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 02:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-20 03:01 am (UTC)I'll reply here when I write it :-D
Thanks!!
Date: 2011-02-20 04:58 am (UTC)(While this is often the case when one makes a deal with a devil, it might be pointed out that MOST of those problems can be dealt with with careful talking. However, in the case of Lacey, it wasn’t so much What she asked, as Who she asked it of
She stretched out her arm. She’d been careful. She’d known it was going to be a long, cold trip. These survival reality shows her husband insisted on going on were a stone bitch in normal times, and this one? Survive in the Antartic wastes with nothing but what was in your packs?
She didn’t know if he was trying to kill her or himself.
(In Mr. Lacey’s defense, neither, although he had a latent urge for self-destruction instilled in him early on by an over protective mother.)
It was, she supposed, what she’d wanted. It was certainly a form built for survival (if her husband didn’t try to roast her for food). But a were-penguin? She waddled forward awkwardly. Well, at least there would be less of the “Let’s-have-sex-to-stay-warm” on this trip.
Re: Thanks!!
Date: 2011-02-20 07:06 am (UTC)Re: Thanks!!
Date: 2011-02-20 03:51 pm (UTC)Well...
Date: 2011-02-20 08:16 am (UTC)"Fanfic, or pieces set in other people's universes, unless it is your universe and you are asking me to write it, or if it's my universe."
Now I'm wishing that I had seen this before leaving the prompts that I did yesterday. It would be cool to have you nosing around some project of mine.
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-20 03:42 pm (UTC)Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-20 05:25 pm (UTC)http://penultimateproductions.weebly.com/serial-poetry.html
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-25 08:33 pm (UTC)Have I mentioned I love your Monster House series? :-D
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-25 09:54 pm (UTC)I have no idea what's going to happen in March. People instantly went nuts over the "Things With Wings" theme, which I wasn't sure would even work. Now I'm having inklings that Tuesday could turn into another one of those nights where I'm still writing poetry at 1 AM.
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-25 10:09 pm (UTC)Heck, my author bio starts with the phrase... "it all started with the winged cat people." ;-)
I wish it wasn't on the 1st; that's the busiest day at work.
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-25 10:13 pm (UTC)Ah, you make a good point. I love dragons and angels ...
>>Heck, my author bio starts with the phrase... "it all started with the winged cat people."<<
... and I love this too.
>>I wish it wasn't on the 1st; that's the busiest day at work.<<
Sorry for the inconvenience. As a regular participant, you're welcome to send me your advance prompts in backchannel.
Re: Well...
Date: 2011-02-26 12:24 am (UTC)I like bat wings. And moth wings. :-)
>>... and I love this too.
:-D
>> you're welcome to send me your advance prompts in backchannel.
I shall! I was thinking of ideas while slogging home!