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liryian ([personal profile] liryian) wrote in [community profile] ficinabox 2020-08-12 11:11 pm (UTC)

Two more things--I'm planning on nominating golden shovels as a poetic form (wherein you take a quote from something else--traditionally another poem--and form your poem around those words) and I'm not sure what a good length requirement would be--based on current equivalents I think it should probably be between 10 and 15 lines but I'm not certain where it should fall; it's got more required elements than free verse with its 15+ lines, but is much less structured than alliterative long-line, which has a 10 line requirement.

The other thing is a question on length opt-ins; if I wanted to have an opt-in that could be summarized as "the poetic equivalent of [<1k] words", how should I phrase that? The intent would be that any nominated poetic form could be requested as a medium alongside it, so it doesn't make sense to have it as, for example, "Alliterisen x1" since while that would be a 500 equivalent it wouldn't also allow for a six-line ode.

Okay, editing to add a third thing: since my impression is that Fan Soundtrack does not involve original compositions, I'd like to add "original music" or "original score" as a medium. I think maybe a minute would be appropriate here, though you may want to ask for more input on that, with minimum quality (?) being at least a demo--possibly computer-generated--and maybe the sheet music as well? This should probably get asked about, since I'm sure that other people have different approaches than me and I wouldn't want to make it inaccessible for some composers.
Do you think "Medium Opt-In: Original Score" would be a good name for that?

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