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Share some art related to one of your stories! Or even art of an original character that doesn't have a story yet! WIP art, memes, moodboards, music mixes, piccrews and other character generators, are all perfect for this.

silvercat17

It's Blorbo Blursday, so tell us about the character or characters currently occupying all your thoughts. Here's a suggested question, but don't feel limited to that. You can talk about anything you want including motivations, backstory, their family, whatever.

What are some unique features of your character?

silvercat17

It's time to tell us about your setting! Feel free to go as large-scale or small-scale as you want about anything world related: history, institutions, flora and fauna, geography, languages, technology, idioms, traditions, sports, mythology, etc

A suggested question to get you started, but feel free to talk about anything you want.

What is interesting or unusual about the geography?

silvercat17

A Story Bible is a place to keep all the details about your story that may or may not come up. This includes things like art reference sheets, character profiles, timelines, maps, snippets you haven't found a place for yet, special items, and a whole lot more.

Optional topic: what is something special that happens during the winter in your story or story's world?

You don't have to limit yourself to that - you can tell us anything you feel like sharing. And despite the name, you can comment on this any time until the next one goes up (in approximately two weeks)

This is also a place to share world details for collages, interactive art, and mosaics.

silvercat17

It's time to tell us about your setting!

Here are some possible questions you can answer, or tell us whatever you want. Feel free to go as large-scale or small-scale as you want.

What kind of magic or technology characterizes your world?
What are some myths, legends, or idioms that are common?
What's a major city and what's it like?
What's the landscape like where most of the stuff is happening?

This is a great time to share info about your canon that would allow others to make collages.

silvercat17

A Story Bible is a place to keep all the details about your story that may or may not come up. This includes things like art reference sheets, character profiles, timelines, maps, snippets you haven't found a place for yet, special items, and a whole lot more.

Optional topic: what is something special that happens during the summer in your story or story's world?

You don't have to limit yourself to that - you can tell us anything you feel like sharing. And despite the name, you can comment on this any time until the next one goes up (in approximately two weeks)

silvercat17

A Story Bible is a place to keep all the details about your story that may or may not come up. This includes things like art reference sheets, character profiles, timelines, maps, snippets you haven't found a place for yet, special items, and a whole lot more.

Optional topic: what's an unusual feature of your world?

You don't have to limit yourself to that - you can tell us anything you feel like sharing. And despite the name, you can comment on this any time until the next one goes up (in approximately two weeks)

silvercat17

A Story Bible is a place to keep all the details about your story that may or may not come up. This includes things like art reference sheets, character profiles, timelines, maps, snippets you haven't found a place for yet, special items, and a whole lot more.

Optional topic: Tell us about a home or building that's important

You don't have to limit yourself to that - you can tell us anything you feel like sharing. And despite the name, you can comment on this any time until the next one goes up (in approximately two weeks)

silvercat17

Here we go! Tell us about some background world stuff. Suggested question: Who is an influential person in your story's history and what did they do?

You don't have to limit yourself to that question - you can tell us anything you feel like sharing. And despite the name, you can comment on this any time until the next one goes up (in approximately two weeks)

silvercat17

It's Blorbo Blursday, so tell us about the character currently occupying all your thoughts. Here are some optional questions:

Who is your most written oc and who is your least written?

What sort of tropes does your oc fall under?

Maybe fill out the Nanowrimo character questionnaire - https://blog.nanowrimo.org/post/61118193819/nano-prep-the-official-nanowrimo-character

silvercat17

I'm a bit brain dead, so here's a simple question:

What's one thing that distinguishes your story's world from the real world?

(You aren't limited to answering the question: feel free to tell us about anything cool, interesting, or whatever.)

silvercat17

Yeah, I'm a week and a day late. These things happen.

Share some art related to one of your stories! Or even art of an OC that doesn't have a story yet!

WIP art, moodboards, music mixes, piccrews and other character generators, are all perfect for this.

You can also reblog on tumblr (or post on tumblr and then use that to share the pictures and comment here)

silvercat17

It's the first World-bulidng Wednesday! Tell us about something of your writing world. Today's suggestion: a weird creature or plant

silvercat17

This is the first Art Monday! Post art you have for your story, whether that's things you've drawn, piccrews, moodboards, or anything else

silvercat17

Some of you got a sneak peak of this when I shared a screenshot on the Discord, but I've been meaning to start this and what better time than now. These are going to be fortnightly/every other week posts where you can talk about your stories in a less structured way than writing. I'll be posting these here, on the discord, and on the tumblr.

There will be four topics, on different days:
Art Monday - post art for your story, whether that's things you've drawn, pic-crews, moodboards, or anything else

Would Building Wednesday - build up your world: history, institutions, flora and fauna, geography, languages, technology, idioms, traditions, sports, mythology, etc

Blorbo Blursday - (blorbo is a Tumblr term) talk about one of your characters; motivations, backstory, their family, whatever. I'll try to have questions you can optionally answer

Story Bible Sunday - time to build up your story bible. That's a place to keep all the details that you might need, including things like character profiles, timelines, background info, floor plans, maps, snippets that don't yet fit anywhere, information on items, and other important details. This obviously overlaps with the others

Today is Story Bible Sunday, so tell me about an important item or place in your story (or whatever you'd like to talk about)

isana

All right, guys, let's get this started.

This is a post for members to post their burning questions to each other. They can be simple, like "when is Character X's birthday," or not so simple "how would you define the relationship between Character X and Character Y?" If there's a story you want that author to talk about, throw in the title (and some points you'd like covered!) and if said author's willing, they can write their answer in a separate post, since I have no idea what the comment word limits are.

Here's how it'll work: an author who's up for answering questions/writing commentaries about stories will leave their name in a comment. Readers who want to ask questions or request stories reply to that comment, and hopefully we'll have some good conversations going!

If you guys request stories, it may be best if you limit them to

rainbowfic for the time being, unless the story you've got archived outside the comm is in a public entry.

EDIT: If it's not already obvious, you can ask authors more than one question in however many comments you like. The point is to have a discussion, and it wouldn't be very lively if it stopped at one question per author! Just give the author a chance to finish answering your previous questions, of course.