Snowflake Challenge #7

In your own space, tell us about 3 fandom resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy.

Hmm, let me think about this for a minute.

1. For any kind of background info of course I often use well-known places like Wikipedia and Google.

Mainly because I spent my whole life in Germany while my stories usually take place in the USA, I often need more info about daily stuff. What do people eat for breakfast? How do they celebrate Christmas? How is the school system built up? What kind of music was popular in 1970?

Depending on where my story takes place, I also google for pictures because it can help visualize places I have never visited.

But also for 'icon-making', Google can be helpful. It is not too difficult to find pictures when making icons for your favorite fandoms, but if you participate in a challenge where you have to do 100 icons from 100 different fandoms, it can get tricky. This is the moment when Google comes into play. For example: just google for science fiction movies, and you will get many results you have maybe never heard about before. But who says you have to know every movie you make icons from? Everything is fine as long as you find a perfect picture for a prompt.

2. I only discovered some time ago various sides that offer free stock photos. If you are interested in checking out the one or the other, I would suggest Snappa - here you will find 21 links to various photo sides.

The diversity of photos is immense on these sides. Sometimes I use a photo as a picture prompt for a story; sometimes, I use it as an icon's basis. It's totally up to you what you will make out of it.

3. Finally, there are many fandom resources you can find at Dreamwidth.

If you are looking for a year-long writing community, maybe you should risk a look at getyourwordsout. You will have to pledge your personal yearly writing goal. There will be challenges, word wars, encouraging posts to get over your writing block, info for publishing your work, and more. Signing up for this year is still open until January 17.

If you are more interested in low-pressure writing challenges, you could join a drabble community, like 100words or anythingdrabble. Or maybe a multifandom community that is open to all kinds of fanwork is more appealing to you? Then come and visit us at fffc. If all this is not enough challenge for you, have a look at 100fandoms, where you will find a 100-prompt-table you will have to fill with 100 different fandoms.

Also for icon lover, there are some interesting communities like 100fandomicons or dailyicons.