Poetry Fishbowl Open!
Nov. 21st, 2017 01:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThe Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you for your time and attention.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your LiveJournal, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I'll be soliciting ideas for human explorers, Fifers, spice, coworkers, anthropologists, discovering each other, forming families, questioning, debating labels, falling into (or out of) love, telling your own story, forming new relationships, building a support network, helping other people, nesting, hatching, migrating, returning home, bedrooms, classrooms, starships, territories, nests, public places, life stages, mating displays, self-discovery, self-awareness, marriage, sex, parenthood, alien family dynamics, legal rights, definitions of family in different cultures, alien artifacts, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I will be checking this page periodically throughout the day. When people make suggestions, I'll pick some and weave them together into a poem ... and then another ... and so on. I'm hoping to get a lot of ideas and a lot of poems.
What Is a Poetry Fishbowl?
Writing is usually considered a solitary pursuit. One exception to this is a fascinating exercise called a "fishbowl." This has various forms, but all of them basically involve some kind of writing in public, usually with interaction between author and audience. A famous example is Harlan Ellison's series of "stories under glass" in which he sits in a bookstore window and writes a new story based on an idea that someone gives him. Writing classes sometimes include a version where students watch each other write, often with students calling out suggestions which are chalked up on the blackboard for those writing to use as inspiration.
In this online version of a Poetry Fishbowl, I begin by setting a theme; today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I invite people to suggest characters, settings, and other things relating to that theme. Then I use those prompts as inspiration for writing poems.
Cyberfunded Creativity
I'm practicing cyberfunded creativity. If you enjoy what I'm doing and want to see more of it, please feed the Bard. The following options are currently available:
1) Sponsor the Fishbowl -- Here is a PayPal button for donations. There is no specific requirement, but $1 is the minimum recommended size for PayPal transactions since they take a cut from every one. You can also donate via check or money order sent by postal mail. If you make a donation and tell me about it, I promise to use one of your prompts. Anonymous donations are perfectly welcome, just won't get that perk. General donations will be tallied, and at the end of the fishbowl I’ll post a list of eligible poems based on the total funding; then the audience can vote on which they want to see posted.
2) Swim, Fishie, Swim! -- A feature in conjunction with fishbowl sponsorship is this progress meter showing the amount donated.
3) Buy It Now! -- Gakked from various e-auction sites, this feature allows you to sponsor a specific poem. If you don't want to wait for some editor to buy and publish my poem so you can read it, well, now you don't have to. Sponsoring a poem means that I will immediately post it on my blog for everyone to see, with the name of the sponsor (or another dedicate) if you wish; plus you get a nonexclusive publication right, so you can post it on your own blog or elsewhere as long as you keep the credits intact. You'll need to tell me the title of the poem you want to sponsor. I'm basing the prices on length, and they're comparable to what I typically make selling poetry to magazines (semi-pro rates according to Duotrope's Digest).
0-10 lines: $5
11-25 lines: $10
26-40 lines: $15
41-60 lines: $20
Poems over 60 lines, or with very intricate structure, fall into custom pricing.
4) Commission a scrapbook page. I can render a chosen poem in hardcopy format, on colorful paper, using archival materials for background and any embellishments. This will be suitable for framing or for adding to a scrapbook. Commission details are here. See latest photos of sample scrapbooked poems: "Sample Scrapbooked Poems 1-24-11"
5) Spread the word. Echo or link to this post on your LiveJournal, other blog, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, StumbleUpon, or any other social network. Useful Twitter hashtags include #poetryfishbowl and #promptcall. Encourage people to come here and participate in the fishbowl. If you have room for it, including your own prompt will give your readers an idea of what the prompts should look like; ideally, update later to include the thumbnail of the poem I write, and a link to the poem if it gets published. If there is at least one new prompter or donor, I will post an extra freebie poem.
Additional Notes
1) I customarily post replies to prompt posts telling people which of their prompts I'm using, with a brief description of the resulting poem(s). If you want to know what's available, watch for those "thumbnails."
2) You don't have to pay me to see a poem based on a prompt that you gave me. I try to send copies of poems to people, mostly using the LJ message function. (Anonymous prompters will miss this perk unless you give me your eddress.) These are for-your-eyes-only, though, not for sharing.
3) Sponsors of the Poetry Fishbowl in general, or of specific poems, will gain access to an extra post in appreciation of their generosity. While you're on the Donors list, you can view all of the custom-locked posts in that category. Click the "donors" tag to read the archive of those. I've also posted a list of other donor perks there. I customarily leave donor names on the list for two months, so you'll get to see the perk-post from this month and next.
4) After the Poetry Fishbowl concludes, I will post a list of unsold poems and their prices, to make it easier for folks to see what they might want to sponsor.
Feed the Fish!
Now's your chance to participate in the creative process by posting ideas for me to write about. Today's theme is "Feathered Nests." I'll be soliciting ideas for human explorers, Fifers, spice, coworkers, anthropologists, discovering each other, forming families, questioning, debating labels, falling into (or out of) love, telling your own story, forming new relationships, building a support network, helping other people, nesting, hatching, migrating, returning home, bedrooms, classrooms, starships, territories, nests, public places, life stages, mating displays, self-discovery, self-awareness, marriage, sex, parenthood, alien family dynamics, legal rights, definitions of family in different cultures, alien artifacts, and poetic forms in particular. But anything is welcome, really. If you manage to recommend a form that I don't recognize, I will probably pounce on it and ask you for its rules. I do have The New Book of Forms by Lewis Turco which covers most common and many obscure forms.
I'll post at least one of the fishbowl poems here so you-all can enjoy it. (Remember, you get an extra freebie poem if someone new posts a prompt or makes a donation, and additional perks at $100-$300 in donations. The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-21 08:05 pm (UTC)I'd also be interested how the Fifers handle one of their own preferring a human schema, since we've already seen humans preferring a fifer arrangement. Do duos face social censure or other hurdles, the way a polycule faces issues in human society?
For that matter, once word gets out about them, do the Fifers have a whole bunch of polyfamilies applying to immigrate into a more conducive society?
[[PS, I posted an offer to double the creativity for your prompters, figured you wouldn't mind.]]
Poem
Date: 2017-11-21 09:06 pm (UTC)This inspired the free-verse poem "More Respect for a Bird" which follows "Faeder Way" and features the fivesome moving into family quarters together.
46 lines, Buy It Now = $20
>>PS, I posted an offer to double the creativity for your prompters, figured you wouldn't mind.<<
:D You are made of SO MUCH WIN.
Poem
Date: 2017-11-21 10:51 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 03:02 am (UTC)75 lines, Buy It Now = $38
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-21 08:34 pm (UTC)Modor and Gimel dynamics.
Misunderstood cultural relic.
Poem
Date: 2017-11-21 10:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-21 09:06 pm (UTC)...it's weird as shit. I just want to sleep. Now that I'm safe to. o.0
Maybe someone who's finally safe, & what it's doing to them?
Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 01:51 am (UTC)224 lines, Buy It Now = $112
Re: Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 04:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-21 11:03 pm (UTC)Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 03:02 am (UTC)75 lines, Buy It Now = $38
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-22 12:45 am (UTC)make others feel at home. A well stocked guest room, is a blessing to a tired traveler.
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-22 12:49 am (UTC)Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 03:02 am (UTC)75 lines, Buy It Now = $38
Feathered Nests prompts
Date: 2017-11-22 01:29 am (UTC)What do you do with an older relative giving up out of grief, to the sorrow of the fledged children with their own nestlings? :-(
Circle of Life is hard.
The first angel speaking to Mary in Fledgling Grace wasn't Gabriel, the usual Messenger and Herald, but Uriel, Angel of Death and Light, the one who knows everyone's destination (destiny and death). "Life is a journey, and death the destination."
I'm heart sore tonight, I guess it shows.
Re: Feathered Nests prompts
Date: 2017-11-22 04:34 am (UTC)104 lines, Buy It Now = $52
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-22 01:42 am (UTC)Prompt the second: Do the Fifers have a concept of queerplatonic partnership, or is that realm entirely based around mating? If they have, can we explore it and how it appears to humans? If not, can the humans introduce the idea to someone local and reasonably receptive? These two prompts could connect, but they don't have to.
Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 06:30 am (UTC)100 lines, Buy It Now = $50
(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-22 02:55 am (UTC)Do Fifers ever suffer from gender dysphoria?
Does Captain Judd ever get his head out of his security documents (or his ass, whichever might come first)?
In "Faeder Way,"
Does Obert ever figure out what the "something else" is?
Poem
Date: 2017-11-22 04:35 am (UTC)104 lines, Buy It Now = $52
Done for the night!
Date: 2017-11-22 06:36 am (UTC)Fifers in SPAAACE!
Date: 2017-11-22 07:36 am (UTC)Re: Fifers in SPAAACE!
Date: 2017-11-22 09:55 am (UTC)"Dynamic Balancing Acts" is an exploration of relationships, stars, and dancing.
207 lines, Buy It Now = $104
Re: Fifers in SPAAACE!
Date: 2017-11-22 07:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-11-22 06:17 pm (UTC)Now we're going to have to look on you poetry place to find more because. o___o
-Fallon~
Okay ...
Date: 2017-11-22 09:03 pm (UTC)