Email List + Submission Dates

[Silk]

Yer only just noticin'?

[AvalonDreamer]

Mine will be being sent later today, possibly after midnight. I'm out of town and ended up without a connection that lets me upload... blegh.

[Silk]

Well, I suppose we can hold back the Evil Laughing Chorus for that. Just this once.

[Silk]

Hmm. I'm thinking that maybe in the post where I list everyone's submission dates, I might also find like.. I dunno... an image of a checkmark or something to put in front of everybody's names who HAS submitted, or something. I figure if we can all just look at that one post and see exactly who's submitted and who hasn't it will keep us all more motivated.

Not anticipating any problems this month while we're all still on the "WHEE! This is brand new and therefore awesome!!" phase but you know, it might just come in handy later...

Edit: Heck, I'm making this more compliated than it is. The forum has emoticons, we can just use happy/sad faces.

Whaddya guys think? Decent idea?

( yes,  no,  late? or what?)

[Reaves]

I am thinking perhaps we should move the December 15 submittance date to the 8th. Really, I don't want to wait another 2 weeks until we get to the second half of submissions. I don't think anyone is feeling overwhelmed by too much material, so really we might as well have something being sent out every week. Agree? Disagree?

[Silk]

Haha. I still haven't even decided what I'm going to submit - I doubt I'd have anything ready by the eighth.

And I know a lot of us are students, which means we're into - or heading into - the winter break right now. I doubt I'd be able to keep up that pace come January, say, and I'd be surprised if I was the only one who felt that way.

Still - what do others think?

(I mean, maybe it IS just me, and if that's the case I'm not going to rain on everyone else's parade.)

[little wilson]

I'm fine with submissions every week.

If we do this, I think we should probably lay the Evil Laughing Chorus off a bit. There are quite a few students on here who may miss a few submissions during school. But with it doubled up, if you miss, you only have to wait 2 weeks for the next submission, instead of a month. And then it's not so "Oh it's my submission date, I HAVE to get this in" and so you put off other, slightly more important stuff such as schoolwork (that's what I would do, anyway....).

And it makes the whole process faster. Some of us aren't finished with our books, but some are, or close. This makes it so you don't have to wait one month per submission. I mean, if you've got a 15 chapter novel going, and each chapter is over 3k, that's only one chapter a month. That takes over a year...At least if you want to get it all reviewed here. That's a long time....

[Silk]

I'd been thinking the same thing. :/ It's definitely a problem.

I'm still not sure that I personally can keep up with biweekly submissions, and it'll make things more difficult in terms of making sure everybody gets at least a couple of decent reviews every time - which is what I'm really worried about.

Still, though,  we can certainly give it a try. We're pretty much in trial runs right now anyway, so it can't hurt.

[firstRainbowRose]

I'm more for the two diffrent ones.  That gives me two weeks to read through everything, comment, as well as work, and doing my own book.  I'm not a studen (yet) but I barely have enough time as it is (as you can tell by the lack of comments)

[little wilson]

Yeah, same here, for the reading...I've read one work that was sent to me. I plan to read the others, but I'm in the last 1 1/2 weeks of school, so I've gotta keep up with that as well.

It doesn't hurt to try it out....There's a good chance it won't work (with the reading and reviewing, anyway), and if it doesn't, we can always switch back to two per month. And then we'll know that 4 just doesn't work...

[Silk]

That's pretty much what I was thinking, Wilson.

I started a new thread for this discussion because I wasn't sure people were still following this thread, and I wanted to make sure everybody saw it and got their two  cents in before we make any decisions.

[Karl]

Try having a full time job plus attending a class!

I've managed to read over half the submissions, and comment on them as well. But I don't think I can keep up this reading/critiquing pass on a weekly basis.

And if some folks have all that extra time, they should spend it writing!!

[jjb]

And if some folks have all that extra time, they should spend it writing!!

Which is kind of the point of doing more submissions.

[Chaos]

Try having a full time job plus attending a class!

I've managed to read over half the submissions, and comment on them as well. But I don't think I can keep up this reading/critiquing pass on a weekly basis.

And if some folks have all that extra time, they should spend it writing!!

Everyone else puts me to shame. I haven't looked at a single piece yet. Soon... soon I shall...

[Karl]

Don't know why this was running through my brain:

"The first rule of write club is that you don't talk about write club. The second rule of write club is that you don't talk about write club. The third rule -- if this is your first night at write club, you have to write!"