I am sort of around after all (thanks for the Yay-ing ;)), and I've been summoned to comment on this. I'm not sure what input I'm supposed to provide, though. *g*
Fic challenges make me Very Nervous, even though I have done them. *pause* Actually, the only real one was just about a year ago, because this is an annual meeting, and I was frantically writing to deadline in the middle of last year's. *grin* I'm not sure weekly Very Vague Drabble Challenges count.
I'd probably try for a YW challenge, though, if it looked like something I could do.
I don't think I've ever been in an emergent fandom. I just sort of wander into established ones, mostly. (I'm teetering on the brink of writing Star Wars fic. Meep.)
I think if you let everybody offer ideas, you might want to put some sort of limit on the type -- even if only how specific they can get. *g* Randomly assigned challenges could be really intimidating, depending. Um... similarly, a single challenge would have to be specific enough to be inspiring but open-ended enough that you wouldn't get the same thing over and over again.
Hmm. Maybe a multiple-choice sort of thing. Allow each person to submit three challenges (and be assigned three, to pick one of them), and each can specify up to four of the following: character (each character specified counts as a slot), mood, focal theme, problem, setting, fill-in-the-blank plot element.
...I'm not sure that makes sense at all, actually. The hazards of in-comment brainstorming.
Perhaps you should issue a call for challenge ideas, and pick some, and then farm out or offer as options the ones that seem to work well.
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Date: 2005-05-24 04:05 am (UTC)Fic challenges make me Very Nervous, even though I have done them. *pause* Actually, the only real one was just about a year ago, because this is an annual meeting, and I was frantically writing to deadline in the middle of last year's. *grin* I'm not sure weekly Very Vague Drabble Challenges count.
I'd probably try for a YW challenge, though, if it looked like something I could do.
I don't think I've ever been in an emergent fandom. I just sort of wander into established ones, mostly. (I'm teetering on the brink of writing Star Wars fic. Meep.)
I think if you let everybody offer ideas, you might want to put some sort of limit on the type -- even if only how specific they can get. *g* Randomly assigned challenges could be really intimidating, depending. Um... similarly, a single challenge would have to be specific enough to be inspiring but open-ended enough that you wouldn't get the same thing over and over again.
Hmm. Maybe a multiple-choice sort of thing. Allow each person to submit three challenges (and be assigned three, to pick one of them), and each can specify up to four of the following: character (each character specified counts as a slot), mood, focal theme, problem, setting, fill-in-the-blank plot element.
...I'm not sure that makes sense at all, actually. The hazards of in-comment brainstorming.
Perhaps you should issue a call for challenge ideas, and pick some, and then farm out or offer as options the ones that seem to work well.