And now for something completely different.
I've been promising Hawky I'd post about this for months, and I'm really quite embarrassed I never have. Alison's probably been expecting it for ages, too. Which, you know, makes me worry that some leader I seem to be, putting things off like this, and all, except..
Well, most people know I've been 'busy,' Nanowrimo-ed, dealing with multiple personal tragedies, including having my life torn apart, holiday-ed, and ill-with-my-eye-swollen-shut, respectively. And it's not like what I'm about to introduce is the leadership of a nation or something though it should be.
But then again, does admitting that make me a reasonable person, or a leader with priorities that aren't appropriate for leading?
I'm overstressing this 'leader' thing; I don't intend to, it's just a bit uncomfortable when one feels rather unfit to manage this whole thing.
Anyway. On with it!
Does anyone remember the letter-writing project?
A few months ago Alison decided that she probably wasn't going to be able to run it, and handed the whole thing to me to do with it as I would. Of course, if you want it back, Alison, you may certainly have it. Which isn't in any way to say that I'm trying to pass it off to someone else, just.. in case you'd prefer to have it back.
In any case. I'd like to get going on this, and I'm sure all the rest of you who were previously interested would like to, also. But we need to decide what we're doing.
For instance, we need a name. Hawky is quite fond of Project Snailmail, but all other suggestions are also welcome.
We also need a timeframe. I had intended to start it at the beginning of 2006 and run it through to the end of 2006, announcing it sometime before or during November and giving people all of December to work on getting things together post-Nano. But, well, Nano and then personal affairs rather kept postponing that.. so here we are.
My new idea for a start-date is the twenty-eight of February. It's a good time to start and end, and even though it seems perhaps too far off, I think it's better to build in too much time than too little, really. And I think we'll find it passes swiftly enough.
Do we want it to only last a year? There was a great deal of interest in continuing it beyond that, I believe, but there was also agreement that the cycle needed to have a break at least to admit new participants who hadn't previously made it in.
Or I suppose we could just make it a continuous ring, but that could get chaotic.
And then there's the whole plot aspect. I quite liked the idea of the whole 'Internet is no more and now this group of friends are writing letters to each other,' which I think is what was the generally-accepted story, but of course any further suggestions on that are open, also.
Especially if I'm remembering incorrectly and that's actually not what we said at all, in which case I plead Important Conversations and three-thirty in the morning and antibiotics clouding my brain, the pesky things.
Beyond that, well.. suggestions! Interest! Telling me if you even still remember what I'm on about! Instituting a coup de leadership de Mari if deemed necessary!
All are quite welcome.
I'll start a community for the project once we have a name. Names are good, comrades. Which is really funny said with a British accent, because.. it is. Comrade.
Wow, you can tell it's late when I start thinking anything to do with communism is funny. *shakes head*
But comrade has always tickled me.
But yes. Letter-writing project. The Great Letter-Writing Project, even. Discussion on it has Officially Begun.
Edit: Oh. And. Hawky has been very helpful in all of this. It's because of her that I even wrote this post tonight, or possibly ever.
All hail.
Well, most people know I've been 'busy,' Nanowrimo-ed, dealing with multiple personal tragedies, including having my life torn apart, holiday-ed, and ill-with-my-eye-swollen-shut, respectively. And it's not like what I'm about to introduce is the leadership of a nation or something though it should be.
But then again, does admitting that make me a reasonable person, or a leader with priorities that aren't appropriate for leading?
I'm overstressing this 'leader' thing; I don't intend to, it's just a bit uncomfortable when one feels rather unfit to manage this whole thing.
Anyway. On with it!
Does anyone remember the letter-writing project?
A few months ago Alison decided that she probably wasn't going to be able to run it, and handed the whole thing to me to do with it as I would. Of course, if you want it back, Alison, you may certainly have it. Which isn't in any way to say that I'm trying to pass it off to someone else, just.. in case you'd prefer to have it back.
In any case. I'd like to get going on this, and I'm sure all the rest of you who were previously interested would like to, also. But we need to decide what we're doing.
For instance, we need a name. Hawky is quite fond of Project Snailmail, but all other suggestions are also welcome.
We also need a timeframe. I had intended to start it at the beginning of 2006 and run it through to the end of 2006, announcing it sometime before or during November and giving people all of December to work on getting things together post-Nano. But, well, Nano and then personal affairs rather kept postponing that.. so here we are.
My new idea for a start-date is the twenty-eight of February. It's a good time to start and end, and even though it seems perhaps too far off, I think it's better to build in too much time than too little, really. And I think we'll find it passes swiftly enough.
Do we want it to only last a year? There was a great deal of interest in continuing it beyond that, I believe, but there was also agreement that the cycle needed to have a break at least to admit new participants who hadn't previously made it in.
Or I suppose we could just make it a continuous ring, but that could get chaotic.
And then there's the whole plot aspect. I quite liked the idea of the whole 'Internet is no more and now this group of friends are writing letters to each other,' which I think is what was the generally-accepted story, but of course any further suggestions on that are open, also.
Especially if I'm remembering incorrectly and that's actually not what we said at all, in which case I plead Important Conversations and three-thirty in the morning and antibiotics clouding my brain, the pesky things.
Beyond that, well.. suggestions! Interest! Telling me if you even still remember what I'm on about! Instituting a coup de leadership de Mari if deemed necessary!
All are quite welcome.
I'll start a community for the project once we have a name. Names are good, comrades. Which is really funny said with a British accent, because.. it is. Comrade.
Wow, you can tell it's late when I start thinking anything to do with communism is funny. *shakes head*
But comrade has always tickled me.
But yes. Letter-writing project. The Great Letter-Writing Project, even. Discussion on it has Officially Begun.
Edit: Oh. And. Hawky has been very helpful in all of this. It's because of her that I even wrote this post tonight, or possibly ever.
All hail.