Prompts of Color Feedback Poll

[swissmarg]

Despite having been the most popular idea for a Diversity Awareness Month activity, the Prompts of Color comment fest didn't exactly find a resounding echo amongst the community members. Only a couple of people submitted prompts, and only one person completed a fanwork (this spectacular portrait of Padma by imera, go check it out!). So I'm just curious in finding out what went wrong and if there might be anything we could learn for future events.


[Poll #1987555]


Feel free to leave any comments you might have below. Thank you!

Comments

[librasmile.livejournal.com]

Hi I'm sorry I couldn't get right back to you.

Yes to both questions. I think what might be a good idea is to have a contest maybe for writers to just write a background for the characters of colors. No stories. Just backgrounds. And then maybe other writers can come along and write stories using those backgrounds. Perhaps writers could switch up. But the point is the backgrounds can't be far fetched or rather they can be far fetched (this is Harry Potter after all) but they should include some grounding in reality, the way platform 93/4 is part of the real train station so to speak.

I think if you start with that, you'll have much richer material to work with which should lead to more interest hopefully.

Anyway that's what I got. Hope it helps.