Your input is needed :)

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

A while ago darkravenwrote posted the question if you would be interested in a community that archived old prompts from fests and will give folks the opportunity to drop prompts for claiming. The tenor was that this was a good idea - so here is the next step, and since she is already busy coming up with lists and spreadsheets, I am trying to do a tiny part as well and find a name for this baby :)

Since HP_adoptaprompt already exists, we decided to start fresh and have the following question for you:

[Poll #1979096]

Please give us a minute and participate :)

Comments

[amorette.livejournal.com]

\0/ good luck w the com! It sounds fabulous :D

[knowmefirst.livejournal.com]

I really like this idea

[disapparater.livejournal.com]

I think 'promptarchive' is the simplest and most obvious for what it's about. It does the job cleanly, without cutesy meaningless names that would only baffle me, tbh.

[celestlyn.livejournal.com]

I agree! It is clear and concise and leaves no doubt about what the comm is about.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

So, this is an HP thing, not an H/D thing? Because I own hdpromptarchive.

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

Hi, yes it is not an exclusive H/D thing, but of course we would like to accept H/D too. Mainly what we want to do starting from now is approach festmods and collect the leftover prompts for all pairings and kinks and so on. We're most actively going to be around fests (although we will accept submissions too). Then we will tag the prompts so that people can search for a prompt by tag and claim it. Would that be ok for you? Or would it interfere with your comm?

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

The idea I had for hdpromptarchive was actually a little different. Not recycling from fests, but having a place where people can drop prompts they love, but don't feel they could write for themselves, (for whatever reason) and prompts they felt happy to part with. Prompts could be submitted at anytime. Those prompts will simply be there on the archive, and any interested persons can claim them at any time. For a fest or whatever they want to use it for. So, your com won't interfere, I don't think. :)
But, I feel like the idea of recycling old prompts already has a community, (hpadoptaprompt), so I'm a little confused, to be honest. What will be the difference between this com and hpadoptaprompt?

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

I think the hpadoptaprompt was for a fest, while this isn't strictly for a fest (like signing up and submitting stories or artwork).

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

yes that is how I understood the com as well, which is why we came up with a new idea. We did think about asking the mods of hpadoptaprompt if we could relaunch it, but in the end we would like to start fresh with this years fests. We will contact mods so that they can ask their prompters to state beforehand if they are ok with their prompts going to the archive after the fest is done and if they did not get claimed.

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

Well, if you find any and all my unclaimed prompts on the various fests, you're free to include them. I don't think any of my 2014 horrorfest prompts were claimed and a couple of this year's Samhain Smut prompts were claimed. Although, most of my Hermione Smut (or at least a good number) prompts have been claimed.

As I said, feel free to include any of my unclaimed prompts.

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

yey! thank you!!

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

PM'ing you :)

[digthewriter]

hp_adoptaprompt was started out as fest for giving life to your lost prompts but your idea is different - and very cool.

Of course you guys are more than welcome (to whatever the F you want... haha) but if you wanted to take over that community and shape it into what you desire, you're more than welcome to take over adoptaprompt but you're looking for more...what? recycle your prompts?

Who would put in these prompts? The same person who prompted them in the first place?

[witchyemerald.livejournal.com]

I would love to see adoptaprompt go again. Don't we all wish we had more time to do these things

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

No the work for reprompting would lie with Raven and me since we would go through the fest lists after they are done with giving out the prompts for their rounds - which is why we would like to inlcude the question "Can your prompt be archived at hp_XXX should it not be claimed YES/NO?" in future fests. I am just now working on the logistics with Raven. we could work with hp_adoptapromt in the future if they would like to organize a new round because we would have the prompts that are up for grabs in one place already.

[kedavranox.livejournal.com]

It would be a good idea to spread this poll to some HP comms, too. I've only seen it in the H/D circles.

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

I put it up in HP_Creatures and do_me_veela and slythindor100 and asked hogwart365 if they would post it :) - but please feel free to share the poll.

[vaysh]

I am so torn between hp_promptarchive and hp_bunnyfarm. :) While the first is clear and to the point, the latter is more fannish and more fun. :)

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

lol hp_promptarchive- the community aka bunnyfarm

[capitu]

I have a question. ^^

Are you planning to archive all the prompts of an X fest or the original prompter would have to re-prompt them?

Because maybe a prompter wants to "save" a prompt for another fest that might also fit, you know?

I guess I'm wondering if your idea is something like, "Here are the prompts from X, Y, Z fests, help yourself," or rather, "Prompters, please re prompt your prompts from X, Y, Z fests."

Sorry. I don't even know if I'm being clear. I hope so! :D And sorry if this was answered already. I don't always hang out here, and clearly, I should. Lol

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

you are very clear - which is why we want to work together with festmods and integrate a tiny part into the prompting post - I am ok with my prompt being archived at "name of the nes comm" if a prompter says NO then of course we won´t do that, but so we can be clear if people want their prompt posted only at that specific fest :)

and our idea is like, if a writer has a writers block he could come to the community and be like - oh I would like a prompt for H/D or Snarry or Harry/Ginny and maybe for a creature and then a list of prompts would come up. If a name of the prompter his available we would encourage writers to say - "hey I am using your prompt" once they are done.

[capitu]

*nods* I get it. :)

It sounds like a cool idea to help writers who are having a block.

Maybe it would be a good idea to leave original prompts, too though. I mean, sometimes when a writer is having a writers block, they aren't always looking for to start a whole new fic, but maybe a prompt that suggests a scene or a moment would be helpful too. :D

It's a great idea though. Thank you for explaining to me. <3

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

as soon as we are up and running we will allow original prompts as well :) and I don´t think we´ll do a strict word count like - min 1000 words that can be too much sometimes.

[kiraohara.livejournal.com]

I'd often thought of doing this for fests when there were just so, so many lovely-yet-unclaimed prompts, but never actually had the time or initiative to plan it out by myself. Yay for you guys! This is going to be awesome. :D If you do need any help with the organizing, let me know (though darkravenwrote sounds like someone after my own heart with the lists and the spreadsheets, haha X3).

Yay! This will be wonderful, I'm sure of it. :3

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

yey for lists! I love them too :)

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

are you mostly in H/D? otherwise please spred the word to other comms as well :)

[kiraohara.livejournal.com]

Predominantly H/D, but I poke into a few other comms as well that are multi-pairing or for some other specific pairings. I'll drop a line to those mods to see if I can spread the word. :)

[shadowofrazia.livejournal.com]

WAIT NO I DID IT WRONG. (If it shows you who votes for what, can you just pretend that I put my vote in the "ones I really like" category, omg. ;_; )

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

it s ok I noted you for the right question :)

[shadowofrazia.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks!

[tinyscribbles80.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit dissapointed when I see that hp_promptarchive is winning T_T I know that it's clean and concise but I like wishing well better coz, yeah well, people dream... Am I making sense here? But whatever it is the name will be, I think the idea is great ^^

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

aww I know - because wishing well is so cute right? You drop a prompt in and hopefully something beautiful happens - but I think we´ll listen to the people :) until the end of the week and then we´ll know more :)

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

Has there been any updates to the prompt archive?

[lyonessheart.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry but not yet., but we have not forgotten about it.

[lrthunder.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I was curious.