NEWS:
It saddens me greatly to have to write this, but, with my school and my health, unfortunately, I have not had the proper time or ability that this group needs from me. I founded this with a dream, which some of you greatly supported. I have not been able to do all I wished with this group. I had hoped to have a workshop on how to look at a painting or a photomanip and re-paint it with your words. I had hoped to have a contest to see who could write the picture... or paint the poem.. and between my school work and my health, I was unable to. At the end of our subscription, I will either be handing this group over to someone who has the time and health needed to commit to this group and stepping down, or I will be disbanding it.
I apologize for my absence, once again, but.. my health deteriorated faster than I thought it would.
Tiarna
!IMPORTANT! IF YOU WANT TO SUBMIT READ THIS, FOLLOW THIS!
One of the problems I'm seeing is that people are trying to submit poetry or just images to featured. Unless it's a visual poetry, it doesn't belong there.
If someone isn't a member, please don't submit their work unless it's a illustrated story or a visual poetry piece, and PLEASE put it in the Favorites Folder only.
The idea behind the folders:
Poetry, Prose, Photomanips, etc... are for -MEMBERS- only. Only material from members should be going into those folders. Because it signifies that they are giving their permission to have someone use their writing or their pictures for inspiration. If someone isn't in the group and their art is put into one of those folders, our members think that means they can use it. So they create something lovely inspired by that nonmember work... and then the nonmember flips out because it was used without their permission. This is a situation I'm trying to avoid.
Featured is for -MEMBERS- collaborations, or visual poetry by members or illustrated stories by members. Just prose/poetry or images are -not- to go in this folder.
Favorites is for -Non Members- but -still- must be visual poetry or illustrated prose. Just prose/poetry or images are -not- to go in this folder.
I can't tell you how many times I've had to go through and either move things or remove them entirely because they were in the wrong place. I'm currently in school and don't have time to constantly go into the galleries and do house cleaning. And I really don't like asking anyone else to do it, they're busy too.
Now. There are reasons for this. 1. I don't want to have anyone accused of abusing power as an admin (ex. "So and So puts all their works in all the time and I get a flood of it in my inbox" or "So and So keeps putting up all their friends works and they don't even belong to this group.") 2. I'm trying to keep this group from flooding everyone's inboxes like so many of the other groups I belong to do... (One group I actually get about 200-500 deviations A DAY, on average). 3. I'm trying to make sure that only works that you are willing to allow someone else to make a picture/story/poem out of, are what is going into the folders. This is not a "Look at me" group. This is a Teamwork, or Collaboration group. We're not here to be used to get your work noticed, there are literally thousands of other groups out there for that. This is where you go when you need inspiration, need help, need support.
I am trying to keep things fair. There is a universal limit at this time of no more than 2 deviations per day per Founder/Co-Founder/Contributor/Member. This is across the board. There are no favorites. No exceptions, not even for me.
So right now I'm asking everyone to make sure what you are putting and where. If it's nonmember stuff, make sure it's a visual/written collab, or don't bother. We're mainly here to display works of -our- members, not everyone else. If they want us to display their work, then they need to join and put their work up, understanding that gives others in the group the ability to use their work for collaborations.
We have more affiliates, check the box to see which clubs we are affiliating with at the moment and note us if you think of any others who might want to affiliate with us. There are now two boxes, one for affiliate through the new app on dA and one for the ones we can't or haven't used the app for yet.
I know it seems we're growing slowly, but I think that might be better than a sudden explosion!
Another interesting tidbit. We admins are still in the planning stages of a contest for the members of this group! So far the polls are Helping decide the choices. This Sunday will be the last day to choose and the three polls will be considered closed. One week after that, the rules and prizes will be listed here in our blog. Yes the contest is open to our members only, and I hope we have enough of a turn out for it that we won't need to open it to all of dA.
If anyone would happen to know anyone willing to donate prizes, we'd be glad to hear it! We're trying to pick one image for the writers to write for and one lit piece for the artists to illustrate.
And for those who are interested in writing short stories, here's a folder of wealth and insight into writing them.
ookamikasumi.deviantart.com/ga… Check it out!
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No passion in the world is equal to the passion
to alter someone else's draft.
~H. G. Wells