Poetry Fishbowl Open!
May. 1st, 2018 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThe Poetry Fishbowl is now CLOSED. Thank you all for your time and attention. Please keep an eye on this page as I am still writing.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Neurodiversity." 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.
Click to read the linkback poem "Nascent Wisdom" (15 verses, standalone).
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 "Neurodiversity." 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. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
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. Epics usually cost $.50/line.
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.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "Nascent Wisdom" has 15 verses and stands alone.
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.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; three of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be three months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a bonus fishbowl.
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 "Neurodiversity." I'll be soliciting ideas for neurovariant people, their friends and families, special education teachers, social workers, other neurotypical people working with neurovariant people, activists, outcasts, perceiving the world differently, struggling to survive, being yourself, discovering your strengths, working with the brain you have, meeting other neurovariant people, fighting against oppression, stimming, spinning, hand flapping, sensory seeking, sensory avoiding, going nonverbal, asking questions, exploring new techniques, learning what you can do, sensory rooms, quiet rooms, homes, classrooms, studios, government offices, the wilderness, other places where neurovariant folks hang out, autism, sensory processing disorder, dyslexia/dyscalculia, synaesthesia, dyspraxia, augmented/alternative communication, meltdowns, zones/fugues/hyperfocus, fidgets, adaptive equipment for neurodiversity, theories of mind, the nature of consciousness, activism, representation, 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. Linkbacks reveal verses of "Nascent Wisdom." The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Starting now, the Poetry Fishbowl is open! Today's theme is "Neurodiversity." 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.
Click to read the linkback poem "Nascent Wisdom" (15 verses, standalone).
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 "Neurodiversity." 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. There are multiple perks, the top one being a half-price poetry sale on one series when donations reach $300.
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. Epics usually cost $.50/line.
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.
Linkback perk: I have a spare series poem available, and each linkback will reveal a verse of the poem. One person can do multiple links if they're on different services, like Dreamwidth or Twitter, rather than all on LiveJournal. Comment with a link to where you posted. "Nascent Wisdom" has 15 verses and stands alone.
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.
5) If donations total $100 by Friday evening then you get a free $15 poem; $150 gets you a free $20 poem; and $200 gets you a free epic, posted after the Poetry Fishbowl. These will usually be series poems if I have them; otherwise I may offer non-series poems or series poems in a different size. If donations reach $250, you get one step toward a bonus fishbowl; three of these activates the perk, and they don't have to be three months in a row. Everyone will get to vote on which series, and give prompts during the extra fishbowl, although it may be a half-day rather than a whole day. If donations reach $300, there will be a bonus fishbowl.
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 "Neurodiversity." I'll be soliciting ideas for neurovariant people, their friends and families, special education teachers, social workers, other neurotypical people working with neurovariant people, activists, outcasts, perceiving the world differently, struggling to survive, being yourself, discovering your strengths, working with the brain you have, meeting other neurovariant people, fighting against oppression, stimming, spinning, hand flapping, sensory seeking, sensory avoiding, going nonverbal, asking questions, exploring new techniques, learning what you can do, sensory rooms, quiet rooms, homes, classrooms, studios, government offices, the wilderness, other places where neurovariant folks hang out, autism, sensory processing disorder, dyslexia/dyscalculia, synaesthesia, dyspraxia, augmented/alternative communication, meltdowns, zones/fugues/hyperfocus, fidgets, adaptive equipment for neurodiversity, theories of mind, the nature of consciousness, activism, representation, 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. Linkbacks reveal verses of "Nascent Wisdom." The rest of the poems will go into my archive for magazine submission.
Prompt
Date: 2018-05-01 05:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 05:54 pm (UTC)Also, I have discovered, for reasons for which privacy maintains, Squigz. Squigz are, according to both amateurs and professionals, the ultimate fidget toy. You can fiddle, you can snap'em against each other, you can throw them at polished surfaces (which could get really fun in zero gee), they're relatively soft and about as safe as you can get... if you winged one really hard it might damage an eye, but it's not going to damage anywhere else, they're specifically designed for that...
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 05:56 pm (UTC)Someone doesn't find out until they're an adult that they are neurodivergent.
-Fallon~
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:04 pm (UTC)Foreign languages and the dyslexic.
Venn diagram flowers.
Strengths discounted.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:10 pm (UTC)I would like to see something with this idea. I especially would like to see the penguin's family reacting (positively!) to the news that xe is a penguin.
(Because I'm not sure how clear I'm being: this doesn't have to be a literal penguin. It's more about a family reacting to the news that "oh, hey, no one ever told you your kid's neurodivergent? Oops." I'd like it to be a teenager, but I'm also okay if you want to combine it with
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:14 pm (UTC)(No, really; I'm not going to ask it without your permission. You have the right to decide where and when you feel like answering questions I'm sure you get every day.)
Try this
Date: 2018-05-01 06:20 pm (UTC)Right now, I'm wondering how many of the so-called "village idiots" were actually neurovariant folks who weren't able to cope with the teaching methods available in their time/place. Likely storylines: Clay of Life, Fiorenza, Frankenstein's Family -- but if something else comes to mind first, go with it!
See also Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:27 pm (UTC)-Fallon~
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:43 pm (UTC)Blocks is assembling a network.
Is Howl a soup or is something else going on?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:43 pm (UTC)I think the previous prompt about "by the way, you're a penguin" would fit really nicely into Fledgling Grace, but I could be wrong
Drummers' brains are different
Regarding intelligence, the idea that in some ways it's just as hard to be two standard deviations above the mean as it is to be two standard deviations below the mean
Deliberately rewiring one's brain
Neurodiversity that starts later in life, for example, as a result of traumatic brain injury
Prophets: are they divinely inspired, mentally ill, neurodiverse, or other?
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 06:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 07:03 pm (UTC)Currently he is sitting across from me eating Goldfish and watching a Let’s Play video from EthanGamerTV on YouTube.
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 07:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 08:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 09:00 pm (UTC)Numbers that change places.
"ooooh, shiny!"
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 09:02 pm (UTC)Additionally, the idea that neurodivergence is speciated. It's not neurodivegent if your whole species does it, but if you're raised out of that context, it can seem neurodivergent or even pathological. Or if you're out of context. For instance, if the Teff crew went somewhere that had ASD as a standard (loads of diversity, but nobody is Core-Standard!NT). OOOooh, Schrodinger's Heroes teff over into Army of One for a bit. Ash hangs out with V and Astin, Pat joins Shuttlecock for stitch-n-bitch. Quinn and Kay visit that club/dungeon from that one poem about Bottleneck.
What about people who self-medicate their varience issues with alcohol? That would put them under Shaeth, right? I can picture his Paladin going about spare with a group who drinks not to escape their own pain, but to tolerate other people's behavior towards them (often, the problem isn't my difference, it's the REACTION to my difference, and while I don't, many deal with that by drinking so they don't care what others say)
(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 09:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 09:11 pm (UTC)- Cecil
Re: Prompt
Date: 2018-05-01 09:26 pm (UTC)254 lines, Buy It Now = $127
Re: Prompt
Date: 2018-05-01 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2018-05-01 09:48 pm (UTC)https://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/4049042.html
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10703849.html
The prompt: How is Aston and the Order of Hypatia dealing with Haboob's disappearance? Can a Sufi mystic who does the spinning meditation show up? Rashi, and the whirling dervishes...
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/10993721.html
https://ysabetwordsmith.dreamwidth.org/11039115.html
2) Seconding the idea about a historical setting and their understanding of autism, though I would like an absent-minded (problems with executive function autistic, maybe dyspraxic clumsiness) sage, clergy, teacher showing HOW to teach those "village idiots" nonverbal or gibberish types, maybe Frankenstein's Family or Hart's Farm?
I'm learning techniques and strategies for NT and other people through classes for a behavioral science minor with my Bachelor's degree in Information and Library Science. Those of us who are autistic geniuses can extrapolate from other learning, we just don't have the built-in intuition on people and social situations.
3) Lacuna, dealing with taste or smell sensory seekers, I'm pretty badly scent avoidant for floral scents. Love the ocean and even low tide stink though! :-D You can take the islander away from the ocean, but they won't take the ocean away from me!
Poem
Date: 2018-05-01 09:54 pm (UTC)254 lines, Buy It Now = $127
Poem
Date: 2018-05-01 09:54 pm (UTC)254 lines, Buy It Now = $127
Poem
Date: 2018-05-01 09:54 pm (UTC)254 lines, Buy It Now = $127