community newbie asks

[light_of_summer]

Hi, justcreate folks, I'm new to this community—thanks for being here! I have a question I'm hoping to get your input on: What can you tell me about month-of-creativity kinds of challenge communities, especially for art or photography or short bits of writing, either on Dreamwidth or on dedicated websites that allow uploading or image-linking to DW? I'm currently aware of:

• Inktober (I've done this in the past, but am dubious about repeating it due to controversy)
• November is Art Every Day Month (I've done this in the past, and liked it a lot, but I'm not willing to follow the community onto Facebook)
• Expert Photography Photo Challenge Calender (Prompts look OK, but hashtag for community looks intended to be Instagram-specific)
• ...various others intended for Facebook or Instagram, sigh.

FYI, I do most of my writing for an amateur press association, where community is built into the purpose of the organization. I miss the sense of art community I've had in the past with NiAEDM (and somewhat with both Inktober and local in-person classes that ended with the rise of COVID-19). I have a regular monthly photo group Zoom, but no explicit challenges or central online community associated with it. I occadionally do some crafting, but am not really plugged into a community for that, and am not seeking a challenge for that, right now. I'm currently hungriest for making art in community.

Thanks in advance for any info you can share, and I send you good wishes for your projects of all types!

Here I go, to tackle my next not-very-creative to-do list item. ➡️

Comments

[zenigotchas]

It's so cool that you do writing for a press associsation.

There's some comms for bingo challenges, I've had my eye on one that looks particularly fun! There's also comms for drabbles and short stories for fanfic and, iirc, also original fic, that give out a prompt you use for that week.

I'll try to rack my brain and comb over the comms I remember to see how right I am but those are for writing. Sorry for the vagueness! I'm not super familiar with many comms here (I mostly lurk)

[althea_valara]

Piggybacking onto this comment: allbingo is the one I'm most familiar with. There's also comment_bingo, and oooh, I cannot forget genprompt_bingo.

(I like to collect lists of good Dreamwidth communities; if you know any more bingo / drabble comms, let me know and I'll add them to my master list.)

[light_of_summer]

Wow, thank you so much, Althea_Valara, for linking to your running list of cool DW communities—I am interested in checking out awesomeers, get_knitted, and journalsandplanners. It's great to be reminded about drawsome, too!

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[light_of_summer]

Thank you, Zenigotchas—I'll be interested in checking out whatever you feel like mentioning!

Re amateur press associations—I lucked out and was introduced to them by friends, decades ago. There are still some out there, if you ask around!

[zenigotchas]

lyricaltitles is a bingo fest for fanfiction and og fiction centering around using songs for inspiration! I've been eye'ing this one.

sunshine_challenge is prompts in July based off Summer things, you can do anything: art, writing, photos, collages, etc.

fan_flashworks is a multifandom comm that posts one prompt for the week you use to write a short fanfic.

I feel like there's more these are just the ones I can remember.

I believe you. I bet it's a lot of fun to be surrounded by other creatives and to get to collab with them and share work. :D

[light_of_summer]

Oh thank you for reminding me about flash_fanworks, Zenigotchas!

I rarely have ideas for fanworks, but maybe that might change with regular prompting?

Good to know about the others, too!