Discovered this Week?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Every now and then there's been chat about writing in Pros, and how we can get back to inspiring each other, and usually at some point I say I really must post more challenges to discoveredinalj again, and sometimes I do and sometimes I don't - so I thought I'd start off early this year!

I also thought I might try a challenge that combines something that's been successful in Pros in the past, and was in fact one of the things that started me writing Pros in the first place - the_safehouse's weekly challenges. Hmmn - I was going to link to one, but when queenbamfie stomped off she deleted all her posts at Safehouse as well. On the bright side, she was away for a while in 2005, and carodee took over, so here is one of hers! QB stopped posting the challenges in 2006, which is when empty_mirrors and I started our National Curriculum challenges, and then eventually started discoveredinalj, where we posted seasonal challenges instead. Weekly challenges have been run since of course - for a while Draycevixen posted some to Safehouse, after I'd described them being popular way back when, and then of course she created her own Pros comm and posted them there instead. And then that faded away too. (Here endeth the history lesson... *vbg*)

So here we are - shall we have a go at some weekly writing challenges here this year? I'd like to do them mostly the original the_safehouse way - I'll post the challenges each week, with themes, and offer prompts for people to reply to and hopefully say they'd like to join in (or read etc. *g*). Then we can all go away and write (or actually create - images and vids etc. welcome too, even though I'll keep calling it a writing challenge!) and ideally post that week, but basically whenever you're finished ready (cos we all seem to have alot less time/opportunity these days, as counter-intuitive as that seems to me!)

What d'you think?
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Comments

[tango65.livejournal.com]

I would love to particpate, but weekly is too much for me. Is monthly possible? Or can I just opt in monthly?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh no, it wouldn't be that you had to join in weekly, it's just that different challenges would be posted weekly (in the hope that if one didn't inspire someone, the next challenge might *g*). You could opt in monthly, or every two months, or just once out of all them - whatever suited you! And post it to the comm whenever (or at least until the challenges stopped, which would definitely be December, if not earlier.

[tango65.livejournal.com]

Great, thanks!

[tinturtle]

we all seem to have alot less time/opportunity these days, as counter-intuitive as that seems to me!

I was also going to suggest monthly ones, since people would have more time to finish their stories that way. Or maybe fortnightly ones.

[f-m-parkinson.livejournal.com]

It's a great idea, though given the lack of time I seem to have to get things done these days, not to mention the length of time it takes me to write anything, I might just end up spectating from the sidelines! But I'm all for people giving it a try.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

Since I discovered how to make banners I thought about doing a sort of "Icon Test Challenge" over at teaandswissroll because I think it is time to start my Icon for every episode project again. I thought about a monthly challenge so I hope we'll not collide with the challenges. What do you think?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The idea of weekly challenges is just that what might inspire one person won't inspire someone else — so this gives more opportunities for inspiration. It's not that people have to finish their stories in a week (unless they want to do it that way).

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Cheering from the sidelines helps everyone keep going too — a good cheer is very important! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Well they're two completely different challenges - one for writing and one for making icons, so... it just seems like more things people can choose from, rather than things that clash?