Themed contest/compilation? Interest check + poll
Mar 27, 2018 21:12:30 GMT -5
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Post by Brownie on Mar 27, 2018 21:12:30 GMT -5
Mk so I want to get back into activity here a bit and I know most of y'all can say the same. And it's always a great way to get people together to do something together. (though I won't deny, the inspiration came from my brain imagining eragon fanfic; don't ask).
anyways, I was thinking we could make a bunch of short stories that follow a certain theme. Perhaps colors, trees, astrology/time, weather ect you get the picture. There'll be a list of related things to claim and each person would write their own short (following some guidelines if necessary, like length or perhaps the inclusion of a thing/character/idea/theme, perhaps make one all different kinds of poems ect).
I could see this becoming a short story contest theme like tuesday's weekly things.
but I could also see this being a bit higher quality and making them a page to be compiled as an anthology of sorts with all the author's shorts.
it could also work as both? A contest first and then put them together second. But then there would be 'better' and 'worse' parts of the anthology due to the scores and if they are an anthology I think pushing for people to work together and collab/bounce ideas off each other would be a better environment for that instead of the closed, competitive nature if they were in a contest. just my thoughts, leave yours below.
but yeah I think this could be a great opportunity for people to get back into writing with something more lighthearted than a fic and work together to showcase other, lesser known people's works. If this goes to be an anthology I'd also allow and encourage two (or more) people to take a prompt and collab it. A little short thing to work together on instead of a whole fic type deal.
Thoughts? opinions? interest?
Also suggestions with more themes because wow I'm bad at thinking of more. All I really had coming into this was colors. xD
anyways, I was thinking we could make a bunch of short stories that follow a certain theme. Perhaps colors, trees, astrology/time, weather ect you get the picture. There'll be a list of related things to claim and each person would write their own short (following some guidelines if necessary, like length or perhaps the inclusion of a thing/character/idea/theme, perhaps make one all different kinds of poems ect).
I could see this becoming a short story contest theme like tuesday's weekly things.
but I could also see this being a bit higher quality and making them a page to be compiled as an anthology of sorts with all the author's shorts.
it could also work as both? A contest first and then put them together second. But then there would be 'better' and 'worse' parts of the anthology due to the scores and if they are an anthology I think pushing for people to work together and collab/bounce ideas off each other would be a better environment for that instead of the closed, competitive nature if they were in a contest. just my thoughts, leave yours below.
but yeah I think this could be a great opportunity for people to get back into writing with something more lighthearted than a fic and work together to showcase other, lesser known people's works. If this goes to be an anthology I'd also allow and encourage two (or more) people to take a prompt and collab it. A little short thing to work together on instead of a whole fic type deal.
Thoughts? opinions? interest?
Also suggestions with more themes because wow I'm bad at thinking of more. All I really had coming into this was colors. xD
