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[alexcat]

Only 2 people are writing and voting... sooo we can only have a tie for first place. I am suspending voting but I will continue to post 2 new prompts each month. You can still write and post your drabbles and when our posting picks back up, we'll resume voting.

I need to know is there a reason that people have stopped writing and posting here? Is there a problem with the prompts?

If you can, please promote this community because it is an excellent practice in writing and in choosing words carefully to convey meaning. And I really LIKE doing drabbles.

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[zdenka]

I like drabbles too. For me, the issue is that my main canons have fantasy or historical or mythological settings, or sometimes sci-fi. Sometimes I just don't have time or I'm not inspired, but there are some months where it isn't possible for me to write anything because both pictures are unavoidably modern and set in the 20th/21st century. (Like I remember one month when both pictures were Coney Island signs. Or the pictures are of cars or motorcycles, or whatever. Not much I can do with that for The Lord of the Rings and the Silmarillion!) If other people enjoy writing for those, I have no problem with it, but I'm probably going to sit those ones out.

I know it would help me to have pictures that look less modern or are less specifically tied to a specific time and place -- like a nature scene, or musical instruments, or a stone wall, or jewelry, or something.

It might also help to have variety between the two pictures in subject and mood, because then if one doesn't work for me I might be able to use the other. For example, if people like the modern pictures, maybe there could be one of those and one that's more historical or fantastical. Or one picture could be more bright and one more melancholy, or one more about specific objects and one more abstract and poetic.

Those are just my ramblings, you can take them or leave them!

[alexcat]

That is exactly what I wanted to know!!! I like strange and bazaar photos and tend to choose those as well as seasonal ones. For example, I choose Halloween type images for October, Winter and Christmas for December and so on. We do use almost exclusively photos so that could be one reason we do not have more fantasy and mystical type images, but I can use art as well. If you have any websites where you think I might find some particularly good images, please let me know!

Thank you so much!