Word limits & Deadlines

So, as a compromise....and here's just a suggestion.

What if we let the winner of the Author who won the short WS decide what the topic is, and what the length should be up to...

Fair?...No? ....Hmmmmmmm

I find both ideas rather interesting.

While I don't know whether 24h would be the best time limit for such a workshop (things get complicated with different time zones etc), I do like the idea of trying to come up with something very quickly. The organization on the other hand get's rather tricky since the topic has to be very specific so it's unlikely anybody prepares a story in advance. This would also mean that we can't use the typical price of chosing the next topic since that would put the winner at an unfair advantage for the workshop. One idea would be to have the previous winner write an intro to a story and any participant would have to continue from there - but that would imply that the previous winner isn't allowed to participate... any other suggestions?

The annual workshop reminds me on what I had in mind for the collaborative workshop. As a special workshop with no theme it would only need a deadline and everybody would have a year time to work on that. The soon-to.be announcd collab workshop will have a deadline for the end of this year, btw.
I'm really interested to hear if people would want this workshop to run parallel to the already known seasonal workshops (summer and winter short, spring and fall normal) or if that should take up the spot of one or two of the seasonal workshops instead.

An other ideas for special workshops?

My solution would be to take advantage of what is pretty clear. Some people don't want to do a quick story contest-so someone who doesn't-let say anon, or someone, picks the subject, and we go from there.

What does the winner get? Isn't glory enough:)?

My solution would be to take advantage of what is pretty clear. Some people don't want to do a quick story contest-so someone who doesn't-let say anon, or someone, picks the subject, and we go from there.

What does the winner get? Isn't glory enough:)?

That could actually work.

Dru1076 wrote: Great idea Castor...that may actually work,

I was thinking, since we are a global group as Njae pointed out, perhaps we could use the chatroom as a starter pistol? I can't use the chatroom, but I'm sure someone can PM me or send me an email...

I'm glad Njae is already preparing a long-term workshop, and I'm curious to know what the details will be on that.

Using the chatroom for planning and starting sounds like a given, but how come you can't use it? There are IRC clients for everything.

As for "preparing a long-term workshop" the collaborative workshop has been planned for some time now and as it stands right now it would replace some of the normal workshops (the fall and maybe winter workshop). Now this is a question to every potential participant: Do you think you can work on a collaborative workshop and a normal workshop both of which would be due by the end of the year?

This one perhaps? Wjhat you're searching for is an IRC client, the rest is only configuration (freenode.net and the channel #superwomenmania)

And my question is whether or not you think we can keep all workshops and have the collaborative run parallel. If that workshop turns annual, this should work out just fine in theory since you have a whole year but the next would be due by the end of the year. In my opinion it would still be possible to have the winter workshop afterwards so we would merely switch one workshop with another.

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It would be really helpful to know if things like annual workshops are interesting for the people here. Someone (I think it was Castor) suggested a Long Story Workshop (not the normal workshops we have right now, but with a minimum amount of words instead) going for about a year due to that. The suggested minimum amount of words was 50000, and my opinion would be to have it begin/end at the end of June so that it wouldn't clash with the also annual Collaborative Workshop.

But those are just ideas and they need feedback.

njae wrote: *bump*

It would be really helpful to know if things like annual workshops are interesting for the people here. Someone (I think it was Castor) suggested a Long Story Workshop (not the normal workshops we have right now, but with a minimum amount of words instead) going for about a year due to that. The suggested minimum amount of words was 50000, and my opinion would be to have it begin/end at the end of June so that it wouldn't clash with the also annual Collaborative Workshop.

But those are just ideas and they need feedback.

Well l like it ))))))

That said i think january 1 is a better date to start it. An honest year is a good place to start it, and winter is a good time to read long stories(sorry Dru in australia as he deals with ice storms).

I also think for stories like that i have the idea of maybe doing like four month check in-like creating a place where people can look at drafts of other peoples stories, or just outlines to see how it goes, and to give feedback on the progress. It could be very helpful i think and encourage people to write, as oposed to having just a novel dump on the what ever the contest date is.

Also while i do like the idea of a collabrite contest-it sounds like a lot of fun, i do think year is a little long for that. For me at least working with other people for that long could be easy to get lost. I would suggest maybe replacing one of the generic contests.

Castor