Clare's Garden of Prose
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clare_dragonflyWelcome to Clare's Garden of Prose! If you're new to my fiction and would like to read some before prompting, everything posted on my DW is listed here.
What is Clare's Garden of Prose? Glad you asked. It's a crowdfunded call for prompts, in which I will write short fiction based on prompts offered here in comments. It's free to prompt, but in exchange for donations and promotions, I offer additional perks, including more posted fiction.
For each prompt I select, I will write and post at least 300 words; since I can never predict how a prompt will catch my imagination, those 300 words could range from being a complete flash fiction piece to being the beginning of a novelette. If the piece does not end up posted in its entirety, it will be available for sponsorship even after the call for prompts is over. I may keep some pieces from eligibility for sponsorship if I think they may be appropriate for traditional publication.
Feel free to leave as many prompts as you would like. I will guarantee a response to one prompt per commenter. Whether or not I do more depends on how the prompts catch my imagination as well as the total number of commenters.
You can also get more words guaranteed to your prompt. There are two ways to do this: donations and promotion. For every dollar you donate, I will write and post a further 100 words. For every link you post letting other people know about this call for prompts, whether it be at Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Twitter, or elsewhere, I will write and post a further 50 words. (Links must be posted before the prompting period ends to count.) You may need to let me know in your comment if you promoted!
There are other benefits to linking and donating. If I raise $25 in donations during this Garden of Prose, everyone who donated or promoted will get a complete copy of their story by email, no matter how long it is. I will also extend the public version of one story, with a poll so everyone can vote on which to extend. If I raise $50 in donations, everyone who prompted will get a complete copy of their story by email. I will also extend two stories.
If 15 or more different people offer prompts on this post (this is the benefit of promotion!), I will make a worldbuilding post with information about whichever of my worlds is the most popular. If there aren't enough prompts that specify the world for me to choose, I will post a poll. The worldbuilding post could be a map, a description of some aspect of a magic system, a section of a dictionary, or something else entirely!
For a single donation of $10 or more, you can name a character in your or someone else's prompted story. Also, everyone who promotes will be entered into a drawing to name a character. I make no guarantees as to who the character will be, but it's entirely possible your character will be in future stories as well! Naming can get complicated in some of my worlds, but I will work with you to create a name with the sound and/or meaning that you choose. You could end up creating a word in one of my fictional languages!
The theme for this Garden is herbs. Use the theme to inspire your prompts, but they can be as closely or tangentially related as you wish! Further, feel free to to specify if you'd like your story to take place in any one of my worlds.
Prompting will be open from 12:01 AM EDT to 11:59 PM EDT Tuesday, September 20.
$10/$50 raised
Leave a prompt to plant a prosy, and watch my garden grow!
ETA: Prompting is now closed! Thanks to everyone who participated!
What is Clare's Garden of Prose? Glad you asked. It's a crowdfunded call for prompts, in which I will write short fiction based on prompts offered here in comments. It's free to prompt, but in exchange for donations and promotions, I offer additional perks, including more posted fiction.
For each prompt I select, I will write and post at least 300 words; since I can never predict how a prompt will catch my imagination, those 300 words could range from being a complete flash fiction piece to being the beginning of a novelette. If the piece does not end up posted in its entirety, it will be available for sponsorship even after the call for prompts is over. I may keep some pieces from eligibility for sponsorship if I think they may be appropriate for traditional publication.
Feel free to leave as many prompts as you would like. I will guarantee a response to one prompt per commenter. Whether or not I do more depends on how the prompts catch my imagination as well as the total number of commenters.
You can also get more words guaranteed to your prompt. There are two ways to do this: donations and promotion. For every dollar you donate, I will write and post a further 100 words. For every link you post letting other people know about this call for prompts, whether it be at Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Twitter, or elsewhere, I will write and post a further 50 words. (Links must be posted before the prompting period ends to count.) You may need to let me know in your comment if you promoted!
There are other benefits to linking and donating. If I raise $25 in donations during this Garden of Prose, everyone who donated or promoted will get a complete copy of their story by email, no matter how long it is. I will also extend the public version of one story, with a poll so everyone can vote on which to extend. If I raise $50 in donations, everyone who prompted will get a complete copy of their story by email. I will also extend two stories.
If 15 or more different people offer prompts on this post (this is the benefit of promotion!), I will make a worldbuilding post with information about whichever of my worlds is the most popular. If there aren't enough prompts that specify the world for me to choose, I will post a poll. The worldbuilding post could be a map, a description of some aspect of a magic system, a section of a dictionary, or something else entirely!
For a single donation of $10 or more, you can name a character in your or someone else's prompted story. Also, everyone who promotes will be entered into a drawing to name a character. I make no guarantees as to who the character will be, but it's entirely possible your character will be in future stories as well! Naming can get complicated in some of my worlds, but I will work with you to create a name with the sound and/or meaning that you choose. You could end up creating a word in one of my fictional languages!
The theme for this Garden is herbs. Use the theme to inspire your prompts, but they can be as closely or tangentially related as you wish! Further, feel free to to specify if you'd like your story to take place in any one of my worlds.
Prompting will be open from 12:01 AM EDT to 11:59 PM EDT Tuesday, September 20.
$10/$50 raised
Leave a prompt to plant a prosy, and watch my garden grow!
ETA: Prompting is now closed! Thanks to everyone who participated!
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Date: 2011-09-20 04:28 am (UTC)Here are some references for the meanings of various herbs and flowers:
http://www.languageofflowers.com/
http://www.herbgardeningguru.com/symbolism-herbs.html
http://www.victorianbazaar.com/meanings.html
Also, I have boosted the signal on my LJ and DW blogs.
Re: Yes, please!
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Date: 2011-09-20 01:01 pm (UTC)The neatest thing I figured out when we started growing our own herbs is WHY parsley and sage are Thanksgiving herbs - they're still alive, even in a good of snow.
Lavender. I love lavender - there's a group that was doing guerrilla gardening, planting lavender all over I-think-it-was-Toronto. But it always reminds me of this song - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Blue - which was on a Disney soundtrack cassette I had as a child.
How about my habit of "tea"'ing people who don't like hugs?
oooh. my mother used to grow Herb (*cough*) between the peas and tomatos. Dad grew it in a closet in college.
"That's not herb tea, that's Herb tea."
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Date: 2011-09-20 08:57 pm (UTC)Count your miles from the lightining.
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