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

[althea_valara]

communal_creators is running RIGHT NOW. Unfortunately it's too late to sign up for this round, but: it's a creativity challenge open to ALL creative types and runs from September 15th to October 15th. Sometimes a smaller round will happen in the spring. Everyone has been so supportive there!

Most of the writing things I've heard of lately are for longer works and are off Dreamwidth, but here's a few other DW communities that might interest you:

sweetandshort is for short written works and other small creative challenges.

inspiredby posts monthly prompt lists.

common_nature is a community for nature photography.

If you're a fan of the Final Fantasy video game franchise, ffprompts posts monthly prompts. Also, my friends seventhe and lassarina usually run a Final Fantasy Kiss Battle for fic/other works, happening around Valentine's Day in one of their journals.

snowflake_challenge posts a bunch of prompts in January; they are fandom-related, as a way to both celebrate fandom and meet other people. There's also a sunshine_challenge but I'm less familiar with that one.

[light_of_summer]

Oo, thank you, Althea_Valara—sweetandshort and common_nature both especially look like they might do quite well for me!

Much appreciated!