three_weeks_for_dw - comm activities?

[littlebutfierce]

three_weeks_for_dw, the Dreamwidth anniversary fest, is happening this year again, starting on April 25. I know last year I really enjoyed it--lots of interesting posts both in individual journals & comms, & lots of friending memes, etc.

I thought I'd see if anyone had ideas for things we might do here to participate! Last year I remember comms having contests, for one. I know fic_promptly has done contests to see who could fill the most prompts. Is there something along those lines we could do? Perhaps the person who gets the most words written on their WIP that week? (I already know I will definitely not win, ahahaha.) Although I don't have any cash to throw out for DW points for prizes, & I can't do graphics, either, heh. (Maybe this isn't the case for some of you?)

Hm, what about a friending meme? We have a lot of people subscribed to this comm (~130, holy moly!). Probably there are new fandom friends/writing buddies to be made!

Any other suggestions or comments on the ones above -- & importantly, also offers of help -- would be fantastic! We definitely don't have to do anything, but I'd feel bad if I didn't at least ask if anyone wanted to. :)

Comments

[lacerta]

Yes! Friending meme! I'd love that.

Re competitions, I'm not so sure about the word counts. I think it would favor bigbang writers over drabble writers and that feels a bit unfair just because time and effort that are put into a fic don't necessarily depend on the length. But maybe we could set it up similarly to the fic_promptly contest with the goal of finishing fics or a WIP?

[littlebutfierce]

Or we could do two contests: one for highest word count, which would favor big bang people, & one for greatest number of fics, which would favor drabblers? Although I still have no prizes for even one contest, so maybe this is all in vain, heh.

I do like friending memes though!

[charamei]

A friending meme sounds like lots of fun!

I tend to agree with chaos_everos about having word count be the basis for a competition. The finishing goal could work, or we could set up a separate contest with a single theme/prompt? (Though admittedly, I'm not sure how judging that would work with such a diverse mix of fandoms as we have here.)

[littlebutfierce]

Hm, the theme contest could work--or as I just said upthread, one contest based on word count & one on number of fics? (But I have no prizes anyway, ahahaha... I dunno if anyone would enter for the glory of the game ;)

[littlebutfierce]

Yay, & that sounds like a relatively easy thing to run as well...

[curuchamion]

Which WIP? ;-)

I agree that friending memes are Always Nice. Other than that... I'm really not familiar with the "three weeks for DW" thing (wasn't here last year), so I have no idea what the options might be. *shrugs*

Contests are good, but as I can't write to prompts and have highly erratic wordcount, I wouldn't win anything...

[littlebutfierce]

If you look in the three_weeks_for_dw comm they have link round-ups & stuff from last year.