2014 and the future

Dru1076 wrote: I, for example, cannot submit directly to the library. Just a thought....

1. I think that the current number of workshop (2 long and 2 short each year) is a reasonable number that works with the number of people in our community. More than that will probably discourage some authors and/or make the quality of the entries drop drammaticaly;
2. I think that the timetable worked out by Njae back in the day was fine, we need to fine tune the time, based on the general situation, but I think it worked and we should keep it.

1. get rid of seasonal workshops, replace them with three evenly spaced out workshops all long
2. have short workshops for events e.g Xmas, major sporting events
3. have dedicated workshops that last a year
4. picture workshops, something that i was going to do this year, but never got the time to get it up and running
5. ban a winner of a workshop competing in the next one, that way we can prevent a one writer from dominating
6. one line workshops, a workshop where people write a line of a story and another writer writes the next line and so on and so on
7. have the workshops in languages other than english
8. audio workshops where stories are submitted in audio format rather than in written format.

fats wrote: ok, here is my ideas for this topic.

1. get rid of seasonal workshops, replace them with three evenly spaced out workshops all long
2. have short workshops for events e.g Xmas, major sporting events
3. have dedicated workshops that last a year
4. picture workshops, something that i was going to do this year, but never got the time to get it up and running
5. ban a winner of a workshop competing in the next one, that way we can prevent a one writer from dominating
6. one line workshops, a workshop where people write a line of a story and another writer writes the next line and so on and so on
7. have the workshops in languages other than english
8. audio workshops where stories are submitted in audio format rather than in written format.

these are a few of the hundreds of ideas that are floating around in my head, all to do with the workshops.

fats

fats wrote: ok, here is my ideas for this topic.

1. get rid of seasonal workshops, replace them with three evenly spaced out workshops all long
2. have short workshops for events e.g Xmas, major sporting events
3. have dedicated workshops that last a year
4. picture workshops, something that i was going to do this year, but never got the time to get it up and running
5. ban a winner of a workshop competing in the next one, that way we can prevent a one writer from dominating
6. one line workshops, a workshop where people write a line of a story and another writer writes the next line and so on and so on
7. have the workshops in languages other than english
8. audio workshops where stories are submitted in audio format rather than in written format.

these are a few of the hundreds of ideas that are floating around in my head, all to do with the workshops.

fats

• 5th January 2014 to the 2nd March 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks
• 4th May 2014 to 6th July 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks
• 6th September 2014 to 2nd November 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks

fats wrote: ok, here is my ideas for this topic.

1. get rid of seasonal workshops, replace them with three evenly spaced out workshops all long
2. have short workshops for events e.g Xmas, major sporting events
3. have dedicated workshops that last a year
4. picture workshops, something that i was going to do this year, but never got the time to get it up and running
5. ban a winner of a workshop competing in the next one, that way we can prevent a one writer from dominating
6. one line workshops, a workshop where people write a line of a story and another writer writes the next line and so on and so on
7. have the workshops in languages other than english
8. audio workshops where stories are submitted in audio format rather than in written format.

these are a few of the hundreds of ideas that are floating around in my head, all to do with the workshops.

fats

1. I'm not too keen on this idea, on one hand we haven't had a proper year of workshops so far, before changing the format I think that we have to verify if the current one works;
2. this might work - although I have to agree with Njae's point that these events already produce their own influx of stories - also I'm not sure which format we might use, but it might work, still we need a working calendar of main workshops before planning for anything more;
3. this idea has been floating around for a long time and it's kind of a sore spot for me: focussing on a single project for a whole year, while simultaneously working on a couple of seasonal workshops and personal stories seem a little too much for me at the moment; I'0m very sorry, but I'm against it;
4. picture workshops aren't my thing so I'm not interested in this particular section;
5. the ban has been discussed even on the old site from time to time, I have to agree with Njae that it seem unnecessary at the moment; on the other hand I have to admit that sometimes I have distinct impression that, no matter what, the rose of the workshop winners will never grow much;
6. there already was something like this, it was called "Interactive Story" and that section has been long abandoned;
7. while I would like to see more of this, we have to know how many authors and reader there are for any language other than English;
8. not too keen on this one either, audio might be tricky to produce.

fats wrote: Ok I've had a chat with lfan and he has asked me to generate a more concrete set of plans for the ideas that I have posted.

So here goes.

For the three evenly spaced long workshops I'm proposing the following dates for the workshops.

• 5th January 2014 to the 2nd March 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks
• 4th May 2014 to 6th July 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks
• 6th September 2014 to 2nd November 2014 with voting to take place over 2 weeks

As you can see there will be months with no workshops this is to allow flexibility in the timing.

For the short workshops I propose that we have up to 3 workshops each lasting 3 weeks for the writing and 1 week for voting.these could be run in the months that have no long workshop.

fats wrote: For the ultra long workshop that last a year I'm going to edit my idea and make that a collaborative workshop that could work and it would also be good for the idea of having more than 2 writers involved say a team working on it.