hi, smallville! hihihi! It's been awfully quiet around her lately. (umm, yeah, including the mods which is just wrong :) Is anyone still out there
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I already belong to some multi-fannish groups and good heavens all the post for shows I'm not interested in give me a headache. It also seems like some shows over shadow others.
Hey, so I was pondering this, because on the one hand, I do think some cross-pollination could be good for the comm, but on the other, I think all of CW is too broad, and for a third hand, I don't think any of that addresses the real issue, which is that flashfic comms need a kind of steady and tedious feeding that is easy to let slide.
Then I had a thought this morning that I thought is worth tossing out -- what about instead making it *just* Smallville and Supernatural, and make it a weekly challenge running thursday - thursday, with the challenge just, "inspired by the episode" -- whether the episode is new or a repeat, doesn't matter. I think an announcement would still be a good idea to remind people, but it could be automated easily, so no bother trying to remember. It's not the same feel of regular "concept" challenges, but on the other hand, I think there are a lot of concept challenges out there, and it does encourage more *flash*-fic -- quick pace to get stories out before the new ep comes out.
I wanted to wait to respond until the poll closed. I think your idea is an excellent way to handle things! The poll showed that most of the fans don't want to add another fandom into the comm (and, well, the poll showed that there aren't many fans all that active in SV fandom). If you don't mind, we're going to use a variation of your idea, using the most recent episode as the challenge while keeping the comm SV only.
I'm interested to see if the shorter challenge period will produce more fic. And I really wish that this challenge idea had been around the week after Justice!
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Then I had a thought this morning that I thought is worth tossing out -- what about instead making it *just* Smallville and Supernatural, and make it a weekly challenge running thursday - thursday, with the challenge just, "inspired by the episode" -- whether the episode is new or a repeat, doesn't matter. I think an announcement would still be a good idea to remind people, but it could be automated easily, so no bother trying to remember. It's not the same feel of regular "concept" challenges, but on the other hand, I think there are a lot of concept challenges out there, and it does encourage more *flash*-fic -- quick pace to get stories out before the new ep comes out.
Anyway, just an idea!
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I'm interested to see if the shorter challenge period will produce more fic. And I really wish that this challenge idea had been around the week after Justice!
Thanks so much for you ideas!
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