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rabenhorst) wrote2009-12-22 06:57 pm
rabenhorst) wrote2009-12-22 06:57 pm
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Inspiration-boxes.
This is something I both was asked to do, and wanted to do. Some of you who are on my friends-list have already seen an entry I made some time ago in my personal journal, showing off these little inspiration boxes for drabble-writing. Since the idea seemed to be liked, I figured I would introduce it to you too and maybe it would help someone to get writing :)
The idea is simple. You fold two little paper boxes. Then you take words, or short quotes, and you write them down on little pieces of paper. Those papers you can squeeze into little balls and then play a little writing-lottery ;) First pick a pairing in one of the boxes, secondly pick a prompt-word from another box, then just write. It can be a traditional drabble of only 100 words, it can be a small ficlet or it can be a longer fic. Anything you want to do and anything the prompts inspire you to do. If you have a printer, you can even print out small pictures and add them in the midst of the prompt words ;) Anything goes!
Here are my little boxes. In the smaller one, I wrote down pairings and in the bigger one, there are prompt words. If you want, you can only include your favorite pairings or only single characters. The idea would be to offer more variety though, so I at least included also pairs I don't particularly like, to see if I mange to get some little drabbles done of them ;)
I randomly took two papers from the boxes, and as you can see it now offered me to write a D/T ficcie with the promptword "love". Not that hard, eh? It's a pretty vague prompt, you can have something much more specific too if you want to :)
I took a moment to fold a few boxes just, and this is what came of it. I was thinking that maybe in one box I could fit some Christmas-themed promptwords, in one box some more melancholy ones and in one box some happy fluff. Or then you can just put everything into one box and see what you get!
To fold your own box, you can either google a good manual or then you can follow the instructions I made for this type of box. The pictured guide is here; part 1 and part 2. Feel free to ask me if you have some troubles with it and I can try to help!
If you need help in figuring out promptwords or -quotes, there are several amazing communities around in lj to find inspiration. I can give you the list of words I included in my original prompt-box and you can fill in more as much as you want and leave out whatever words you don't find appealing :) Also if you have good words or quotes, comment on the post with them so other people can use them too! Sharing is caring.
Here's the original word-list I used (not that much);
So, what I would like you to do now, is to make your own inspiration boxes :) No matter what your pairings are, no matter what style you write. This works for everything. If you want you can only make the prompt-box and leave out the pairing-box, working with whatever pairing seems to suit the prompt you get. It's all up to you! This is supposed to be fun and I hope you'll all enjoy doing it ;)
Write your drabbles and share them in comments below, comment on the drabbles others have written and let your inner fangirl(/boy) free! I encourage you to spam the entry as much as you wish. Go go!
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fonulyn
The idea is simple. You fold two little paper boxes. Then you take words, or short quotes, and you write them down on little pieces of paper. Those papers you can squeeze into little balls and then play a little writing-lottery ;) First pick a pairing in one of the boxes, secondly pick a prompt-word from another box, then just write. It can be a traditional drabble of only 100 words, it can be a small ficlet or it can be a longer fic. Anything you want to do and anything the prompts inspire you to do. If you have a printer, you can even print out small pictures and add them in the midst of the prompt words ;) Anything goes!
Here are my little boxes. In the smaller one, I wrote down pairings and in the bigger one, there are prompt words. If you want, you can only include your favorite pairings or only single characters. The idea would be to offer more variety though, so I at least included also pairs I don't particularly like, to see if I mange to get some little drabbles done of them ;)
I randomly took two papers from the boxes, and as you can see it now offered me to write a D/T ficcie with the promptword "love". Not that hard, eh? It's a pretty vague prompt, you can have something much more specific too if you want to :)
I took a moment to fold a few boxes just, and this is what came of it. I was thinking that maybe in one box I could fit some Christmas-themed promptwords, in one box some more melancholy ones and in one box some happy fluff. Or then you can just put everything into one box and see what you get!
To fold your own box, you can either google a good manual or then you can follow the instructions I made for this type of box. The pictured guide is here; part 1 and part 2. Feel free to ask me if you have some troubles with it and I can try to help!
If you need help in figuring out promptwords or -quotes, there are several amazing communities around in lj to find inspiration. I can give you the list of words I included in my original prompt-box and you can fill in more as much as you want and leave out whatever words you don't find appealing :) Also if you have good words or quotes, comment on the post with them so other people can use them too! Sharing is caring.
Here's the original word-list I used (not that much);
So, what I would like you to do now, is to make your own inspiration boxes :) No matter what your pairings are, no matter what style you write. This works for everything. If you want you can only make the prompt-box and leave out the pairing-box, working with whatever pairing seems to suit the prompt you get. It's all up to you! This is supposed to be fun and I hope you'll all enjoy doing it ;)
Write your drabbles and share them in comments below, comment on the drabbles others have written and let your inner fangirl(/boy) free! I encourage you to spam the entry as much as you wish. Go go!
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