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Dreamwidth! What Do You Do With Your Journal ._. (Newcomers Edition)
[Crossposted from my own journal. ft. some suggestions from ysabetwordsmith]
Now, you might be like me where you're kinda unsure what to do with your journal once you have it. I know I can struggle with it even now. But here's on some ideas on what to post about in case you want them;
Making Fanfic & Fanart
You can write & post fanfic/fanart here! There are communities here for sharing your works likewritethisfanfic, vocab_drabbles, 100ships, justcreate & allbingo. More fannish activities can be found on fandomcalendar & fandom_on_dw.
Making Icons
Now, if you are on dreamwidth then you know you can have more then 1 icon per account. Now, some people like getting icons by others for various reasons. Even then, making icons is basically seen as its own art here, like on20icontables & icontalking. A longer list of graphics coms was made by ysabetwordsmith. You can create a table of icons on Chlor's Icon Table Maker.
Rec Works
You wanna gush about works you love and why they're great,fancake is a place that offers prompts in case you want. But you can also just, do that on your own journal & for original works.
Write Meta
You've got some thoughts that go into analysis terratory? Whelp, why not organize these thoughts into meta that others can read about?ysabetwordsmith has a whole series talking about the importance of meta & includes a "how to" for it.
Simply Journal!
This might seem obvious, but just document stuff that happened to you &/or that you experianced. If you wanna share thoughts or ideas in regards to journaling,journalsandplanners is there for you!
Even more suggestions + more coms to look to if you're curious what's going on on Dreamwidth, please check out this post byysabetwordsmith. I know I've refrenced her a lot in this post, but that's cause she does a lot to try to help Dreamwidth. Not that nobody else does, everyone adding comments, posts, links & more helps make Dreamwidth stay alive.
ysabetwordsmith]Now, you might be like me where you're kinda unsure what to do with your journal once you have it. I know I can struggle with it even now. But here's on some ideas on what to post about in case you want them;
Making Fanfic & Fanart
You can write & post fanfic/fanart here! There are communities here for sharing your works like
writethisfanfic, vocab_drabbles, 100ships, justcreate & allbingo. More fannish activities can be found on fandomcalendar & fandom_on_dw.Making Icons
Now, if you are on dreamwidth then you know you can have more then 1 icon per account. Now, some people like getting icons by others for various reasons. Even then, making icons is basically seen as its own art here, like on
20icontables & icontalking. A longer list of graphics coms was made by ysabetwordsmith. You can create a table of icons on Chlor's Icon Table Maker.Rec Works
You wanna gush about works you love and why they're great,
fancake is a place that offers prompts in case you want. But you can also just, do that on your own journal & for original works.Write Meta
You've got some thoughts that go into analysis terratory? Whelp, why not organize these thoughts into meta that others can read about?
ysabetwordsmith has a whole series talking about the importance of meta & includes a "how to" for it. Simply Journal!
This might seem obvious, but just document stuff that happened to you &/or that you experianced. If you wanna share thoughts or ideas in regards to journaling,
journalsandplanners is there for you!Even more suggestions + more coms to look to if you're curious what's going on on Dreamwidth, please check out this post by
ysabetwordsmith. I know I've refrenced her a lot in this post, but that's cause she does a lot to try to help Dreamwidth. Not that nobody else does, everyone adding comments, posts, links & more helps make Dreamwidth stay alive.
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