silwritersguild | Image Instadrabbling Tomorrow! (Reply)

Tomorrow, we will host the final event for our month-long Block Party: image instadrabbling. Instadrabbling is a long-running form of collaborative storytelling in the Tolkienfic fandom. Ordinarily, you get together with a bunch of friends on IM or chat, someone picks four words at random from the book nearest at hand, and everyone write a perfect drabble (exactly 100 words) using those four words.

We hold instadrabbling events occasionally on the SWG, but this time, we wanted to add a slightly different twist: Instead of four random words, the prompts would be an image.

As always, we are loose on the rules around instadrabbling. Not a writer? Come sketch, sew, work on research or meta, build a playlist ... whatever form of fannish expression makes you happy in that moment! Love to write but hate drabbles? Then write something else! Use the prompts to add to a WIP, make a short story, or write a poem. All Tolkien-based fanworks are welcome!

I will be online around 10 AM EST tomorrow, but I always encourage others who are online before me to get started early if they want. I will post an invite tomorrow to our Discord server for those who would like to join. If you’d like to come join us now, just email the mod team at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org for an invite.

Please bring a favorite image as a prompt! (Though you’re welcome to participate even if you don’t do this. :) Artists, we’d especially love you to bring some of your favorite or thought-provoking pieces, if you’d like to see some fanworks made around your art.