Okay, questions I asked Kat (rephrased a bit for clarity):
* "Do I understand correctly that you have to write something for every prompt on one of your five lists, if you had five already going, before you could pick up a prompt off a sixth list?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "Yes, but you can interpret the prompts in very loose / strange ways. *examples*")
* "Could you please add attributions to the quote!prompts? They're confusing." (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "we'll work on it!")
* "Are they fic-only prompts? The comm name sounds like they are. Or do you do art and things to them too?" (Kat's answer: "They CAN be fic-only prompts, but we also accept art, comics, performance art, anything you want. The Styles page [link] talks about the kind of things you can write. Or draw. Or record. So if you drew something and posted it on the community, you would tag it as an illustration, and you'd get credit for that.")
* "I do not follow what goes on with the Supplies lists and the other stuff besides the main color-prompt lists. Can you give an example?" (Kat's answer: "Styles are structural things you can do to your story. So if you happen to write a story that's under 100 words, you can label that a miniature and get credit for that. The supplies work a little differently. Like, suppose your story starts when [your main characters] are in college - if you wrote a story about [one of them] when he was five, you would count that as a Canvas. If you wrote a scene from an AU, that would be an Eraser. The other supplies are daily or weekly supplies mostly, meaning that they change regularly.")
* "So what's the minimum number of different prompts / sorts of prompts a fill has to have?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "All stories have to have a color prompt that is vaguely relevant if you tilt your head and squint. They don't have to fit any Supplies or Styles.")
* "Can you count a story for more than one color prompt from the same list?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "Not unless you write individual sections for all the colors on the list. That's called a Saturation and we absolutely encourage those."
* "Is there a masterpost that links to the supplies and styles posts and all that, or do they have special tags - how do you find them?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "There's a links list on the right-hand side of the recent entries page.")
* "I get the impression from reading the intro post that most people try to keep up with and comment on each other's stories. I'm guessing that isn't required because so many of the members also mention having varying levels of spoons, but how strongly encouraged is it?" (Kat's answer: "Well, we're a community. We encourage reading and commenting very strongly. However, you don't at all have to do it all the time. One of our mods stops reading/commenting for months at a time because they has no spoons. The important part is that they participates when they does have the spoons. And of course, if you don't like a story or don't enjoy reading it, you don't at all have to continue with it. It's meant to be a relaxed happyfuntimes writing community, for mutual support and entertainment. ... Most of the folks on the comm have fairly spotty participation.")
* "You can lock posts to comm-members-only, right?" (Kat: "Yes you can!")
And a question I still have:
* What is the proceeding for making up / submitting a color list of your own? I thought I saw a post about it somewhere but I can't find it now.
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* "Do I understand correctly that you have to write something for every prompt on one of your five lists, if you had five already going, before you could pick up a prompt off a sixth list?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "Yes, but you can interpret the prompts in very loose / strange ways. *examples*")
* "Could you please add attributions to the quote!prompts? They're confusing." (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "we'll work on it!")
* "Are they fic-only prompts? The comm name sounds like they are. Or do you do art and things to them too?" (Kat's answer: "They CAN be fic-only prompts, but we also accept art, comics, performance art, anything you want. The Styles page [link] talks about the kind of things you can write. Or draw. Or record. So if you drew something and posted it on the community, you would tag it as an illustration, and you'd get credit for that.")
* "I do not follow what goes on with the Supplies lists and the other stuff besides the main color-prompt lists. Can you give an example?" (Kat's answer: "Styles are structural things you can do to your story. So if you happen to write a story that's under 100 words, you can label that a miniature and get credit for that. The supplies work a little differently. Like, suppose your story starts when [your main characters] are in college - if you wrote a story about [one of them] when he was five, you would count that as a Canvas. If you wrote a scene from an AU, that would be an Eraser. The other supplies are daily or weekly supplies mostly, meaning that they change regularly.")
* "So what's the minimum number of different prompts / sorts of prompts a fill has to have?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "All stories have to have a color prompt that is vaguely relevant if you tilt your head and squint. They don't have to fit any Supplies or Styles.")
* "Can you count a story for more than one color prompt from the same list?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "Not unless you write individual sections for all the colors on the list. That's called a Saturation and we absolutely encourage those."
* "Is there a masterpost that links to the supplies and styles posts and all that, or do they have special tags - how do you find them?" (Kat's answer, paraphrased: "There's a links list on the right-hand side of the recent entries page.")
* "I get the impression from reading the intro post that most people try to keep up with and comment on each other's stories. I'm guessing that isn't required because so many of the members also mention having varying levels of spoons, but how strongly encouraged is it?" (Kat's answer: "Well, we're a community. We encourage reading and commenting very strongly. However, you don't at all have to do it all the time. One of our mods stops reading/commenting for months at a time because they has no spoons. The important part is that they participates when they does have the spoons. And of course, if you don't like a story or don't enjoy reading it, you don't at all have to continue with it. It's meant to be a relaxed happyfuntimes writing community, for mutual support and entertainment. ... Most of the folks on the comm have fairly spotty participation.")
* "You can lock posts to comm-members-only, right?" (Kat: "Yes you can!")
And a question I still have:
* What is the proceeding for making up / submitting a color list of your own? I thought I saw a post about it somewhere but I can't find it now.