| January topics |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|11:48 am] |
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your September prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Also, just another quick reminder that the activity checks for December will be done January 5th instead of today. Thanks!
Pictures:
http://i39.tinypic.com/23r8hnr.jpg cage
http://i40.tinypic.com/208ifip.jpg easy button
http://i43.tinypic.com/263br75.jpg shadow in the fog
http://i39.tinypic.com/30v0pxj.jpg hanging on the edge
Quotes:
The mind can also be an erogenous zone. -Raquel Welch
Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. -Charles I
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. -Russell Baker
Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. -Nathaniel Hawthorne
Misc. topics:
Talk about your perfect day.
Do you believe in happily ever afters?
What are your New Year's resolutions? Do you think you'll be able to keep them.
Tell me a story.
One word:
Resolution
Jaded
Hospital
Cirse
Songs:
( Hysteria by Muse )
( Happy Endings by David Usher )
( Reflections by Mae )
( Echo by The Hush Sound )
( Not Falling Apart by Maroon 5 )
( Dracula Moon by Joan Osborne ) |
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| December Acticity Checks! |
[Dec. 31st, 2008|03:08 pm] |
With the busy holiday season just now ending and the community coming off of a two month hiatus with no activity checks, the mods have decided to perform the check for December on Monday, January 4th, noon EST. This coming up weekend is the first free weekend that many have had since the holidays have started and we wanted to give everyone a good chance to get caught up and also to remind you about getting something posted since it's been a while since we have done any activity checks.
Monday, January 5th at noon EST, we will be doing a full clean-up of all muses that have not posted and commented to posts for the months of November or December. In order to still be considered current, you will need to have commented to the November or December topic post with your topic response or completed RP thread.
The topics for January will most likely go up sometime tonight or early tomorrow.
Thanks so much for writing with us and have a Happy New Year!!
-The AU Muses Mods |
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| December topics |
[Nov. 30th, 2008|07:05 pm] |
The next activity check will be on JANUARY 1st. If you have not completed a topic in November or December you will be removed. That basically means that if you are a member now you have from now until December 31st to have one topic completed. We will resume our regular scheduled activity checks beginning January 1st.
Comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it, or rp link after you finish it. As always remember to comment here with your October prompt or rp link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity. Thank you to those who offered us topic suggestions for this month's topics.
Pictures:
http://i35.tinypic.com/2uhwq41.jpg mistletoe
http://i35.tinypic.com/344v3bp.jpg boarded up window
http://i34.tinypic.com/spzyfb.jpg candle
http://i33.tinypic.com/2wd6ae0.jpg christmas shopping
Quotes:
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. -Blaise Pascal
Family isn't about whose blood you have. It's about who you care about. -Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -James Branch Cabell
What you risk reveals what you value. -Jeanette Winterson
Misc. Topics:
What was the last nightmare you had?
Caught in the act.
Describe your perfect Christmas.
If you knew you were going to die tomorrow and could leave behind only one letter to one person, what would you write, and who would you send it to?
One Word:
Water
Trophy
New Year
Presents
Songs:
( Love Shack by B52's )
( (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult )
( When You're Gone by Avril Lavigne )
( Lovely Day by Maroon 5 and Bill Withers )
( Seven Spanish Angels by Willie Nelson )
( Haunted by Poe ) |
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[Oct. 23rd, 2008|02:43 am] |
We're posting November's topics early for anyone who wants to get a jump on their muse topics since Nanowrimo is just around the corner. Your mods will be participating in Nano this month, and after discussion have decided that there will be no activity check for the months of OCTOBER and NOVEMBER. This is so that no writer feels the need to have to take a hiatus for the purpose of nano. Our hiatus policy has always stated that if you're on hiatus you can not rp during that time. Nano can be very stressful and sometimes you want to just blow off steam with a random topic or rp, and this way everyone can feel free to do that without the pressure of activity checks looming over them. If you're not participating in Nano you can consider this a freebie month anyway.
The next activity check will be on JANUARY 1st. If you have not completed a topic in November or December you will be removed. That basically means that if you are a member now you have from now until December 31st to have one topic completed. We will resume our regular scheduled activity checks beginning January 1st.
Comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it, or rp link after you finish it. As always remember to comment here with your October prompt or rp link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity. Thank you to those who offered us topic suggestions for this month's topics.
Pictures:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2vhxkhu.jpg run-down building
http://i33.tinypic.com/206j7e9.jpg eclipse
http://i33.tinypic.com/2qw05n8.jpg bomb
http://i36.tinypic.com/2zxnw9c.jpg line in the sand
Quotes:
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. -Sir Winston Churchill
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. -Charles Dickens
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
~Sophia Loren
I wanna think clear. I want to see everything, and I want to feel everything. Then I won't mind goin'. I've got the guts to die. What I want to know - do you have the guts to live?
~Big Daddy Pollitt (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Misc:
Talk about a time you lost something.
What will people say about you after you've died?
When are you most happy?
Write a letter to someone you loved and lost.
One Word:
Blink
Vegetarian
Alone
Fledgling
Songs:
( No Way Back by 8mm )
( Promises by The Cranberries )
( If You Fall by Azure Ray )
( Sometimes it Hurts by Stabbing Westward )
( Decode by Paramore )
( Catalyst by Anna Nalick ) |
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| October topics and an important mod note PLEASE READ. |
[Sep. 23rd, 2008|09:50 pm] |
We're posting October's topics early for anyone who wants to get a jump on their muse topics since Nanowrimo is just around the corner. Your mods will be participating in Nano this month, and after discussion have decided that there will be no activity check for the month of November. This is so that no writer feels the need to have to take a hiatus for the purpose of nano. Our hiatus policy has always stated that if you're on hiatus you can not rp during that time. Nano can be very stressful and sometimes you want to just blow off steam with a random topic or rp, and this way everyone can feel free to do that without the pressure of activity checks looming over them. If you're not participating in Nano you can consider this a freebie month anyway.
There will be an activity check on October 1st. If you have not completed a topic for your muse in August or September you need to do so before October 1st. There will be an activity check on November 1st. If you have not completed a topic or rp for your muse for September or October then you need to do so before November 1st. There will be NO activity check on December 1st.
Our suggestion is if you haven't posted for August that you put your activity links in the September post. As always any topic can be used for any month's activity. Anyone who has topics or rp links in September/October posts will be covered until the January 1st activity check.
Comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it, or rp link after you finish it. As always remember to comment here with your October prompt or rp link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Quotes:
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -Albert Einstein
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund Burke
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. -Ralph W. Sockman
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. -Jean Nidetch
Pictures:
http://i38.tinypic.com/2vj376p.jpg not quite dead
http://i33.tinypic.com/35cpws2.jpg fight
http://i33.tinypic.com/9fr43s.jpg crosses fingers
http://i37.tinypic.com/14y65cm.jpg eavesdropping/around the water cooler
One word:
Halloween
Voldemort
Hello
Memory
Misc topics:
Can you ever really trust your enemy to protect you even if you share a common interest?
What happens next?
He's just not that into you.
Talk about a time when you've overreacted to a situation.
Songs:
( Some of us by Starsailor )
( Blurry by Puddle of Mudd )
( When You Were Mine by Price )
( Break The Sky by The Hush Sound )
( Citadel by Anna Nalick )
( Pour Me Another by Atmosphere ) |
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| September topics |
[Aug. 31st, 2008|10:24 pm] |
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your September prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Also, just another quick reminder that the activity checks for August will be done September 15th instead of tonight at midnight. Thanks!
Quotes:
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. -Michel de Montaigne
When things are at their worst I find something always happens. -W. Somerset Maugham
Pandora doesn't go back into the box, she only comes out. -Pineapple Express
While we try to teach our children all about life,
Our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
Pictures:
http://i36.tinypic.com/i2j7gn.jpg foggy forest
http://i36.tinypic.com/23tjj9c.jpg bats and balls
http://i38.tinypic.com/2gvpoj6.jpg unhappy couple
http://i38.tinypic.com/2zf34ht.jpg drama faces
Misc:
Do you believe in the death penalty? Why or why not?
What is sacred to you?
Not over my dead body.
What's something you've always wanted to do, but never have?
One Word:
Survivor
Betrayal
Exaggerate
Sticky
Songs:
( One Thing by Finger Eleven )
( I Predict a Riot by Kaiser Chiefs )
( Saving Me by Nickelback )
( Unanswered Prayers by Garth Brooks )
( Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve )
( Laughing City by Eisley ) |
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| Activity check notice: PLEASE READ |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|11:05 pm] |
Okay on the 1st was supposed to be our first activity check since we changed the rules to every two months participation and allowing completed rp threads to count for activity. Us mods have always worked on a 'what's fair for us is fair for everyone' policy. I have been very sick and struggling with weather related issues for most of this month. Which has put several members in a position of waiting for me to finish threads so they could count toward activity. As there is no way that I'm going to be able to finish those in time I've spoken with the co-mods about extending this month's activity check. There are a few members who haven't gotten their prompts done yet, and we totally understand. After all, hi, I'm behind too. Add in the fact this is the first month of our new policy and things are a bit confusing to get used too.
So! What this means is that the activity check for August will be on September 15th! If you have no posted since June, then you have until the 15th of September to finish up those rp threads or post a topic. Make sure you post it in AUGUST'S post, not September's because that is the month you need to post for. On October 1st we will go back to the monthly checks. That means if you have not posted since July you have until October 1st to post in September's post. We want to thank all of you for being such awesome members, and we're looking forward to seeing your prompts and threading with you.
Ashy on behalf of the AU mods. |
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| August topics with an important rule change announcement |
[Jul. 25th, 2008|11:07 am] |
IT IS IMPORTANT YOU READ THE FOLLOWING:
The mods of ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif) aumuses have discussed ways to make writing more enjoyable at this community. We have decided to change a couple of the rules that we feel will benefit and inspire our members. Effective this month (July since we're posting early) the following rule changes have been made:
1. The activity requirement for aumuses is now every two months rather than every month. If you have not written a topic for July and choose not to write one for July you have until the first of September to submit a topic. If you have submitted a topic for July you have until the first of October to submit your next topic.
2. Roleplay will now be counted toward activity. If you complete an rp thread between two or more muses each muse can use this toward the activity requirement. We will only be counting completed rp threads so let's go by the honor system here okay? All you have to do is comment in the monthly topic post with the link of the completed thread. Each muse who wishes to use that thread may comment with the link.
We hope that you find these changes fun and creatively inspirational. It really is a pleasure to have each and every one of you as a member of this comm. The mods look forward to continuing writing with each of you.
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your July prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Quotes:
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. -David Grayson
Where there is love, there is pain.- Spanish Proverb
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? -Dolores Huerta
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. -Jean Nidetch
Pictures: Thanks MacBean for the picture suggestions!
http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/05/24/farm-storm/ Farm storm
http://bitsandpieces.us/2008/05/21/counting-the-days-before-the-big-eggscape/ counting the days
http://i35.tinypic.com/34fmm87.jpg finish line
http://i37.tinypic.com/27yqvl2.jpg yes or no?
Misc:
Watch out!
If you could have a conversation with someone who had died who would you pick and why?
What do you think your friends say to each other when you're not around?
What are you afraid of?
One Word:
Wait
Invisible
Discipline
Lust
Songs:
( I Dare You To Move by Switchfoot )
( Chameleon Boy by Blue October )
( Live Young, Die Fast by Alkaline Trio )
( 1,000 Oceans by Tori Amos )
( Everything Starts Where It Ends by Lovedrug )
( This Conversation Is Over by Acceptance ) |
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| July topics |
[Jun. 26th, 2008|08:54 pm] |
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your July prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Quotes:
You know how when you're listening to music playing from another room? And you're singing along because it's a tune that you really love? When a door closes or a train passes so you can't hear the music anymore, but you sing along anyway... then, no matter how much time passes, when you hear the music again you're still in exact same time with it. That's what it's like. - Music From Another Room
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. -George Bernard Shaw
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future. -Kathleen Norris
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. -E. B. White
One-Word:
Flippant
Malleable
Whatever
Fearless
Misc:
What's something you wish you could have done differently?
Write about a habit you find hard to break.
Write a letter to your mother or father.
Write about a time when you felt invincible.
Pictures:
http://i32.tinypic.com/v2yzhw.jpg hell this way
http://i29.tinypic.com/dm655g.jpg fire and ice
http://i29.tinypic.com/23t4707.jpg credit card
http://i30.tinypic.com/27wr3v5.jpg voodoo doll
Songs:
( Fair by Ben Folds )
( Look Away by Chicago )
( Haunted by Poe )
( Hanging on too Long by Duffy )
( Lost by Coldplay )
( A Groovy Kind of Love by Phil Collins ) |
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| June topics |
[May. 24th, 2008|05:43 pm] |
We're posting early to remind everyone that if you haven't done your May topics you need to get on it. We'll be doing activity removals on the first starting in June.
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your June prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity.
Quotes:
Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long. -Albert Einstein
The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong. -Pierre Charron
Now, this is the thought that wakes me up in the middle of the night: that when I get older these kids are gonna take care of me. - The Breakfast Club
There's nothing more exhilarating than pointing out the shortcomings of others, is there? - Clerks
Pictures:
http://i28.tinypic.com/b4c205.jpg comfort
http://i31.tinypic.com/28u7l8g.jpg dad
http://i29.tinypic.com/flyer.jpg spilled milk
http://i30.tinypic.com/30kx0zq.jpg hour glass
One-Word:
Temptation
Histronic
Panache
Auspicious
Misc:
Write your obituary.
How do you communicate best with others?
If you were stuck on an island what ten things or people would you bring with you?
Would you rather be respected or feared? Why?
Songs:
( Perfect by Flyleaf )
( Your Guardian Angel by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus )
( What Have You Done Now by Within Temptation )
( Pages by 3 Doors Down )
( Man Of The World by Fleetwood Mac )
( 7 Year Ache by Roseanne Cash ) |
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| May topics |
[Apr. 25th, 2008|01:12 am] |
We're posting early to remind everyone that if you haven't done your April topics you need to get on it. We'll be doing activity removals on the first starting in May.
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your April prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity. We're posting the topics early because February is a short month so this is your reminder to get those topics in.
Pictures:
http://i26.tinypic.com/244acsh.jpg i quit
http://i29.tinypic.com/ff26a8.jpg alarm
http://i28.tinypic.com/2e4aqus.jpg broken heart
http://i29.tinypic.com/34rc39s.jpg child crying
Quotes:
Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill. But what would you? You have not told me all concerning yourself; and how then shall I choose better than you? - Horace Walpole
Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way. -Dr. Suess
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. -Mark Twain
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke. -Hugh Elliott
One word prompts:
Ouch
Shock
restive
kismet
Misc Prompts:
Time heals all wounds.
When was the last time you cried?
Who can you trust with your life and why?
When was the last time you laughed so hard that you cried?
Songs:
( Cruel To Be Kind by Letters to Cleo )
( Here's A Quarter by Travis Tritt )
( Colour My World by Chicago )
( 1973 by James Blunt )
( Yesterday by The Beatles )
( Something I can Never Have by Flyleaf ) |
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| April topics |
[Mar. 31st, 2008|10:01 am] |
First off, welcome to everyone and thank you so much for coming over with us to InsaneJournal. We appreciate our members and want to be able to do what is best by all of you. If you've yet to join the community here or have not been accepted, please head over to this post to check in and comment with the muses and usernames over here at IJ. The community will offically be moved over to this server after midnight tonight and the monthly removals are done, so please do comment to the post or send the mods an email if you have any questions. Thank you!
Just a reminder that all previous topics are always available to be used for any muse as long as they haven't used it before. You just comment to this post with the link to the prompt after you write it. As always remember to comment here with your April prompt link and add it to your memories. Also, a reminder all challenges are due on the first of the month at 12am (midnight) EASTERN time and must be 150 words minimum to count for monthly activity. We're posting the topics early because February is a short month so this is your reminder to get those topics in.
Quotes:
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -Leo Tolstoy
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must -Fritz Perls
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. -Milton Berle
Pictures:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2w55cp4.jpg adult child shadows
http://i25.tinypic.com/2djun12.jpg hope
http://i25.tinypic.com/5nkcpj.jpg reaper
http://i29.tinypic.com/14ch26g.jpg blowing out candles
One Word prompts:
Why?
Close
Fickle
Dramatic
Misc prompts:
Write a letter of apology.
Reality versus fantasy.
What have you learned from your parents?
When in your life did you know that you were not alone?
Songs:
( Ugly Side by Blue October )
( Just Like a Pill by Pink )
( Creep by TLC )
( In The Sun by Coldplay with Michael Stipe )
( Learnt My Lesson Well by Kaiser Chiefs )
( So Close by Jon McLaughlin ) |
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