July Break Bingo

[sholio]

I decided to get a July Break Bingo card - it's a prompting fest with different categories of prompts. They're offering cards through July 7.

I'll link to the Fandom Calendar post about it. The actual signup is a google (ETA: misremembered that part) form on which you choose different categories of prompts, but there's also a fairly long FAQ.

https://fandomcalendar.dreamwidth.org/1079062.html

You can get different sizes of cards, and you can get more than one. I requested 5x5 and 3x3 ones. I seem to recall signing up for this last year and then never doing anything with it, but I've been a bit stuck on writing lately and could use the inspiration. And there's no obligation to actually use the cards you get.

Comments

[snickfic]

Is there a link to the signup form in that fandom calendar post? Can I just not read? 🙈

[sholio]

There's an 18+ and an all-ages signup form, which is one reason why I didn't link directly (I genuinely wasn't sure what to link to; there are a bunch of different entry points!) but here's the 18+ one: https://jbbpresents.fillout.com/JBB2024.

(ETA: Also, completely misremembered - it's not a Google form at all, it's some other site.)

[passingbuzzards]

God, every year I look at that sign-up and every year I realize somewhere around step 2 that I definitely don't have the patience for the long version but would also like to opt out of enough prompts to not go for the streamlined version either :,D

[sholio]

Hahaha, yeah .... last year I did the long version and it is LONG.

However, they do make a lot of it opt-in by category, so this year I did the streamlined version and only chose the categories I was reasonably sure I could potentially write at least MOST of the prompts. There's also a section of the streamlined form where you can opt out of types of prompt, such as pregnancy or noncon, so you might be able to get it to work for you if enough of your DNWs are on that list!

[chomiji]

Hey hi, looking at the sign up.

Do you know what the comments like "Must have more than 50 possible prompts" means?

[sholio]

Sure! The later pages of the form give you the option of picking prompts individually (I didn't do this, I just went with the full prompt lists) so basically that part is saying that if you go with the individual prompt option, you need to choose more than 50 prompts if you've picked one of those cards.

[chomiji]

Hmmm, OK.

Warning you, I'm full of perhaps foolish questions tonight.

How does "this or that" work as a writing prompt? I'm used to those lists you fill out on Instagram, but ... .

[sholio]

None of these are foolish questions! <3

I assume it means that you can pick either one to write. Like, one of my squares is "Making a promise or breaking a promise" and my interpretation is that I can pick whichever one of those I prefer to write about.

[chomiji]

That's what I was hoping!

[chomiji]

I didn't see where we pick fandoms at all - do we just take the prompts and pick our own fandoms for them?

[sholio]

That's right! The fandom part is entirely up to you. (Like with h/c bingo, where you get prompts but pick the fandoms yourself.)

[chomiji]

I'm giving it a go!