silwritersguild | Come Drabble and Hang Out with Us for Our 13th Birthday!

Our 13th birthday celebration is beginning! If you want to join us, head on over to our Discord server and click the link for the #13th-birthday-instadrabbling channel. (To your left if you're using the desktop version.)

Instructions for how to participate are in the channel and also below the cut.

Instructions for instradrabbling:

1. We will take turns offering prompts.

2. When it's your turn to offer the prompt, choose a random prompt. Traditionally, instadrabbling prompts are chosen by pointing to four random words in the book nearest at hand; those four words must then be used in the response. We also have the Teen Spirit prompt generator (http://silmarillionwritersguild.org/challenges/teen-spirit-generator.php). How you choose your random prompt is entirely up to you!

3. Everyone makes something for the prompt! Again, traditionally, a drabble (exactly 100 words) is the response but you are welcome to break with tradition and create any flash fanwork you want!

4. Post your fanwork here when it is finished. There is a #13th-birthday-nsfw channel for NSFW responses.

5. Ooh and aah over all the fanworks! Graciously accept the rain of accolades upon your own! And once everyone is ready, the next person chooses a prompt, and we begin again.

A few other notes:

-Prompts should be open to anyone to write, so let's avoid anything that would require responses about a particular character, group, pairing, time period, event, genre, rating, etc.

-I will pin prompts as they come in. Click/tap the pushpin icon to view all pins/prompts.

-Let's keep our responses Tolkien-focused.

-If you want to post your fanworks to the SWG archive, I've set up a 13th Birthday Instadrabbling series (http://www.silmarillionwritersguild.org/archive/home/series.php?action=add&add=stories&seriesid=165); post your fanworks to the archive and then add them to the series using this link. (Send me a PM if you need help!)

Even if you're not a writer or not in the mood to drabble, feel free to join us! All are welcome!