GSD

[marguerite_26]

for anyone interested in doing another...

Time to crack the whip on those WIPs!
A week of cheerleading, word-counting, and getting shit done!

Skimming the sign-ups looks like it's multi-fandom friendly. Go GSD!

However, this begs the question... Is there reason enough to set up a multi-fandom comm for this type of activity? Possibly??? But I don't have the time to actually cheerlead every week. I'm happy to set up the comm and let people 'host' these from there, but they'll be 100% responsible for that week's posts and cheerleading. ella_bane? This was your brain child, did you have any plans now that's Baby has crawled out of the nest and sprouted wings?

Thoughts? Please be honest... I'm just as happy to leave it as is. Though I know several of you suggested a designated comm during Accio Words. I see the benefits to both.



from my comments below...

My idea is that it would be a comm that would be open to anyone to say 'I'm taking a week starting Feb 14th!' and they basically control the posting to the comm that week and are responsible for encouraging their participants etc.

Then if there is a week with no one hosting it's totally fine! there's no 'guys!!! we have to keep doing this!!!' But a month later someone wants to host out of the blue... well the comms there for them. Make sense?

All I would do is set up the comm and the schedule so that only one person hosted on a given week.

Comments

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

*nods* I was just catching up on my flist and going to reply to your post. :)

I think it's a good point, and one that was mentioned a few times when I hosted my week. Basically people wanted to know 'when and where is the next one!!!'

My idea is that it would be a comm that would be open to anyone to say 'I'm taking a week starting Feb 14th!' and they basically control the posting to the comm that week and are responsible for encouraging their participants etc.

Then if there is a week with no one hosting it's totally fine! But a month later someone wants to host out of the blue... well the comms there for them. Make sense?

All I would do is schedule so that only one person hosted on a given week.

[onelittlesleep.livejournal.com]

Then if there is a week with no one hosting it's totally fine! But a month later someone wants to host out of the blue... well the comms there for them. Make sense?


I think that's very good! It acknowledges the flux people have when it comes to fandom participation and writing, and doesn't put a lot of pressure on people to participate all the time, which would be impossible for me and probably for a lot of people. With this flexibility, I would probably find myself more inclined to host a week when I know I can have some wiggle room to choose when that will work for me.

And there was no reason to respond to my post! It wasn't at all constructive. Thank you though for considering this stuff further. I think a comm like this could be very useful to fandom!