Writing about fanworks: A Three Weeks for Dreamwidth prompt idea

[enchantedsleeper]

 It's almost Three Weeks for Dreamwidth again! Here I was so focused on Archive April that I didn't even think about another blogging event that's coming up this month. I'm grateful that I saw bluedreaming's Mastodon post about it or I wouldn't even have realised that it starts tomorrow.

After the event had finished last year, I came up with a blogging prompt idea that I really liked, but it was too late to use it myself, so I waited until now to share it xD (I know I could have posted it any time, but I thought it would have less chance of getting lost in the shuffle this way). It's a prompt for anyone who fancies writing about fanworks (though it can apply to original works, too!)

Here's the idea:

1. Make a list of all of your fanworks (or original works) - up to you what counts as a fanwork, it can be anything you'd like to write about! These don't have to be in a particular order.
2. Give each work a number.
3. Every day (or every other day or however often you'd like to do it), roll some dice* or generate a random number, and then look for the work that corresponds to that number.
4. Write a post about that work - sort of a DVD commentary, maybe talking about how you came up with it, what it means to you, why you created it, how it came together, etc. Anything you feel like!

*Probably several dice depending on how many works you have. It's probably an advantage if you're a D&D player who has lots of dice with different numbers of faces xD

This could be done with any type of list, so you could do it with a list of recs, too, if you'd like to write about other people's creations. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to share this idea for anyone who's looking for 3W4D inspiration (or general blogging inspiration!). For other ideas, ysabetwordsmith has created a really extensive list of prompts and questionnaires. I might also share some 'Blanket Boxes' from Pillowfort - lists of prompts to build your blog (known as a fort :D).

Is anyone looking to take part in 3W4D, and do you have a theme/set of prompts in mind?

Comments

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> It's a prompt for anyone who fancies writing about fanworks (though it can apply to original works, too!) <<

That is a brilliant idea.

There are online dice rollers for generating random numbers.

>> I might also share some 'Blanket Boxes' from Pillowfort - lists of prompts to build your blog (known as a fort :D). <<

Yes, please! That sounds very useful, and I would love to see it. Also worth crossposting to reddit_refugees.

>> Is anyone looking to take part in 3W4D, and do you have a theme/set of prompts in mind? <<

I'm planning to make a questionnaire using the random question generator. I also hope to make some anchor posts, but I'm not trying to do a whole matched theme this year.

I customarily do an intro post for Three Weeks in my communities, so folks there can join if they want to.

[vriddy]

For now I'm mainly planning to participate via the bnha_fans comm, we usually run a rec fest for this event :) Enjoy the fanwork prompts, sounds fun!!

[kitarella_imagines]

That sounds like fun! I don't think I talk about my own fanfics enough, I should be more forward and not hide in the shadows all the time 😂