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[carnality.livejournal.com]

Hi there everyone, you’re friendly neighborhood modcrew here with some proposed application changes!

We’ve been hearing that you guys would like to see a harder app process and we ran with this idea, deciding to change it around in a way we hope is for the better. What we have in mind is a new system involving prompts. Basically, each month, applicants will be given five prompts. Of these prompts, you will pick two and write a response, in character. It can be third person, first person, whatever person you want so long as you write 150 words a prompt. Each month, these five prompts will be traded out for something new, so that it remains ‘fresh’ and you have a variety to work with. (And we’d be open to you submitting prompt ideas to us!)

Before we come to a final decision on this, we'd like to have your input. Another option is to keep it to one sample instead of two, and simply increase the required word count. Let us know what you'd prefer.

Character notes will remain mostly the same. We will allow Wikipedia links in place of a written response, but we will strongly encourage you to write a history of your own. The more you show you know your character, the better chance you have of getting accepted, right? Writing a little about your character's history and personality will greatly affect your application’s final result. But as we said, you will still be allowed link to a wiki page.

Now, we’d like to know what you think! Comment away!

Edit: Considering maraihi's suggestion to have the option to pick a prompt to work off of OR to write your own sample post of a required length (to be debated)-- what do you guys think of that?

Comments

[gogogidget.livejournal.com]

Here! (http://community.livejournal.com/totheside/405.html) It's basically a copypasta of prompt lists from a couple fic challenge communities I want to/have participated in and a list of tarot cards I tacked onto the end.

There's also this idea I had (omgsomeonestopmeee)where you could offer up five different kinds of prompts. Like, one or two that are just one word, one or two that are questions being asked of the character, and one or two that could be RL situations to put your character in. Then the player can choose whichever two of the above to write for, or just do their own sample if it doesn't go with any of the prompts. But, you know, my brain just likes to over-complicate simple things so this should all probably be ignored. XD

As for the word limits, I think 100-150 is good per-prompt. But, with the option of doing a promptless writing sample, maybe keep it so that you need more than one? Like, there will still be two writing samples, but you've got the option of writing both from prompts, one from a prompt and one original, or both original. That way you can see the character being apped in two different ways but don't put more stress (read: words) on writing something original.

If y'all just keep the one sample, though, 100-200 words maybe?