Science prompts

[kalleah]

I'd like to pick your collective brains on something I've been contemplating.  One of the things I personally have enjoyed about writing for the Doctor Who fandom is the ability to take some real science and twist it into a story.  I've been keeping track of science-related prompts for several months.  The prompts take a variety of forms -- a Wikipedia article I stumble across, a real-time news article, a photo from APOD, top ten lists from LiveScience, etc. 

What has stumped me is what to actually do with them.  Where do I post them?  I could share in my own journal, but the audience seems somewhat limited and I'd love to get them out to a wider audience.  One of the Doctor/Rose shipper communities?  While I tend to write that pairing, I don't want to limit the creativity of the people I might share the prompts with.  I'd want to make sure that I have the all-clear from the mods of whatever comm I post them to, as not to overlap with any other prompts or step on anyone's toes.  I also don't want to annoy anyone by spamming several comms with the same group of prompts.

What it boils down to is that I'm not sure where to start, so I just haven't started at all.

I'd love your ideas on what to do here.  If you are a mod for a comm and would be interested in having me share the prompts there, let me know!

ETA:  There's also the (humbling) possibility that I will share them and ... nothing.  Is anyone interested in actually writing based on the prompts?

Comments

[ladyofgallifrey.livejournal.com]

This is too funny. I've been doing the same thing! I actually have a stack of books from the library on all kinds of space, science-y, physics things that I'm trying to work into my "big" story. The problem is, there's just too much good stuff, and you want to use it all!

[whosrose.livejournal.com]

Hang on to them. I had a collection of little ideas that I thought to weave into bigger stories that fit nicely yet unexpectedly into ones I was working on.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I agree -- hang on to them! You never know when little things will pop up and prove useful.

[whosrose.livejournal.com]

I'm dying to get back into writing fanfiction so I'd be interested. I've not written in the Who universe so a prompt might be just the boost I need and with Summer Vacation looming on the horizon, I'll actually have the time and energy to do some writing.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I'm dying to get back into writing fanfiction so I'd be interested.

That's good to know.

[glory_jean]

Gah, me too. I'd like to see a place where these are collected and shared. Maybe there should be a com? :) I have space.com image of the day on my feeds for inspiration. I see science-y stuff on the net that is crying for a fic (that I know I'll never use) all the time. Seems like a terrible waste.

I also wonder how popular prompts like that would be. Still it would interesting to try to find out.

[kalleah.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see a place where these are collected and shared. Maybe there should be a com?

That seems to be the consensus ... I was rather afraid someone would say that. :)

[glory_jean]

:D

Well, if you decide to give it a try, I'd be happy to lend you a hand.

[sensiblecat.livejournal.com]

Great idea. I particularly liked your terraforming story and it was fun to see the same theme crop up in TDD.

Try teaspooners - the LJ DW writing com. I don't think they'd ask anyone to vouch for you if you applied to join, but if they did just let me know.

If that doesn't work out, I think setting up a comm of your/our own might be interesting.

[ascendant-angel.livejournal.com]

Yeah I agree setting up your own com for this might be a good idea

[ascendant-angel.livejournal.com]

Don't have any ideas on where to share this, but I can tell you I would be interested. I've not written much in the DW fandom and all I have so far is Rose/Ten fluff. I'd love science prompts that might get me into something a bit meatier.