Welcome to Thursday Doors! This is a weekly challenge for people who love doors and architecture to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos, drawings, or other images or stories from around the world. If you’d like to join us, simply create your own Thursday Doors post each (or any) week and then share a link to your post in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). If you like, you can add our badge to your post.
The badge contest ended in a tie, so I will be altering the badge I use here, but you are welcome to use either of the winning badges.
As I mentioned last week, there are no doors here today (at least none from me). I am on a break, but I promised to leave a placeholder for folks who had doors to share anyway. Poke around the comment section and take a minute or two to visit some of those dedicated door-votees
But first, it’s time for an announcement!
May 1st is exactly four weeks from today. On that day, the 5th Annual Thursday Doors Writing Challenge (TDWC) begins. I can’t believe this crazy idea has flourished, but I am thrilled to say that it has grown each year, as writers, storytellers, and poets have contributed over 150 creative works. I’ll explain the challenge in more detail in the coming weeks. Right now, we need doors. We will be using the TDWC badge Teagan R. Geneviene created for us last year—I love this badge, and I love this challenge.
TDWC invites the people in our community to write (or otherwise create) something that is inspired by a door. The writing challenge begins on May 1st, but we begin collecting doors today. Anyone can contribute a door, and it couldn’t be easier.
Choose a door (or doors, see below), either from one of your Thursday Doors posts or from your camera, or your easel, or from your digital studio, music studio or any other place where you let yourself create. The only requirement is that you possess the rights to publish the image and that those rights can be easily extended to others.
A note about AI doors. While you are more than welcome to start or augment your creative process with an AI driven bit of software, I would ask that you manipulate the image in some way before sharing it here, i.e. don’t simply ask Whatever Bot to create a door. Again, I remind you that you must have the right to share the image. If your right requires an attribution of any sort, please include it with your submission so the TDWC participants can include it as well.
Here are some other pesky rules:
- Limit yourself to three images. If you can’t narrow it down to three, I will.
- Please rank your images according to the joy they bring you. If I receive an abundance of images, I may have to pull the limit back to two per person and I don’t want to delete your favorite.
- Please provide the URL of the image in your Media Library (preferred—see guide below) or the post in which it appears (and some way of identifying it—third from the top on the left, or some such thing). I will copy the images and organize them for the TDWC participants to choose from.
- Put the link in a comment on any of my blog entries, beginning with this one telling me about the door—PLEASE let me know—if you post a door, hoping I’ll see it, it will end well.
- If you have a door but don’t have a blog, send the image to me at “NoFacilities at Gmail dot Com” I’m sure you know how that works.
- Submit your doors by noon on Saturday, April 26th so I can assemble the collection and announce it with the Sunday Recap on April 27th.
If you don’t know how to find the URL of your photo, it’s easy.
- Open your Admin page
- Open the Media library
- Find the photo you want to contribute
- Click on the photo to show the attachment details
- Copy the URL
If you want to see examples of the doors that have been contributed in the past, open the sub-menu under the Thursday Doors menu item in the header of my blog page. All those links open in a new window. Writing entries are on top, and the images are found below. I hope you can join us in this challenge. I know many of you are writing for April A-to-Z or NaPoWriMo, but hopefully you can take a few minutes to find a door(s) to send in. I also hope you’ll be able to join us in May with a writing entry inspired by a door.
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