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playersofthedas2015-10-28 07:36 am
playersofthedasmod) wrote in playersofthedas2015-10-28 07:36 am
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Hello everyone! First, apologies for the late prompt, that may occasionally happen during the upcoming holiday season but I will try to be as prompt (ahem) as possible.
Second, we've reached our 10th prompt and I'd like to request feedback on ways to improve the community and encourage participation. Any suggestions are welcome, no matter how much they depart from our current setup. At this stage I am open to all ideas, including closing the community if there is not current interest in a prompt community for developing player characters.
I think the community may benefit from a more narrowed focus. "Any fanwork" is a broad category designed to encourage participation from many different types of creators, but personally I've found having to work within more narrow confines (such as limited word count) spurs creativity.
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Second, we've reached our 10th prompt and I'd like to request feedback on ways to improve the community and encourage participation. Any suggestions are welcome, no matter how much they depart from our current setup. At this stage I am open to all ideas, including closing the community if there is not current interest in a prompt community for developing player characters.
I think the community may benefit from a more narrowed focus. "Any fanwork" is a broad category designed to encourage participation from many different types of creators, but personally I've found having to work within more narrow confines (such as limited word count) spurs creativity.
There will be no comment screening on this post so members can communicate with each other, but if you have a private comment for the mod you may use the Contact a Mod post, which is screened.
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One possibility might be taking the emphasis away from posting completed (new) fanworks to this comm exclusively and allowing links to WIPs on other sites. The prompt post itself could be a place for general discussion or headcanons or ideas, links to in-progress works where the prompt was muse fuel or inspo blogs, links to past works the creator wishes to revisit based on the prompt, and so on.
The fanworks posted here do not have to be 'complete'--sketches, snippets, drafts, etc. are very welcome--but that may not be apparent from the guidelines.
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"completed (new) fanworks to this comm exclusively"
Do you mean that (a) the exclusive purpose of the comm is completing new fanworks, or (b) the fanworks we complete are exclusive to the comm?
Because if it's (b), then oops!
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Fanworks can be posted wherever the creators like, they do not need to be limited to this community exclusively.
The current guidelines ask that the content of the work be posted on the comm directly (in other words, no referring links to AO3 or Tumblr). This rule was made to encourage discussion on the comm instead of diverting it elsewhere, but I can see how it might discourage posts for prompts that inspired part of a larger ongoing work.