Ongoing snowflake stuff?

[kate]

So every January, I do snowflake. I love it. It reminds me of why I love fandom, it gives me simple, low-pressure challenges that I look forward to. I don't feel guilty if I miss any. And I always, always get comments from friends saying "oh, it's so good to see you on here again!"

And then I feel a little guilty, too, because I do have a hard time keeping up if I don't have something specifically goading me to post.

So I was thinking... what if there was snowflake stuff every month? Would anyone else be interested in that? I love the snowflake format, so I'd want to at least connect the challenges, if the folks at snowflake wouldn't want to do an expansion there. I mean, snowflake is really special, I get that. And I don't want to diminish it, but I also would like to keep things going in the interim between Januarys.

Any thoughts about this? Anybody willing to jump on the train to do this more often? (Maybe every other month, if not every month? Or quarterly? (since November is Nano and December is December))

Every other month would be March, May, July, September.... and maybe skip November because a) it's NaNo, b) all the holiday challenges etc., c) it would give a little extra break before the original snowflake started up again.

Okay, I could brainstorm all night, but this really was just supposed to be a placeholder for discussion. Let me know what you think?

Comments

[athaia]

Maybe we could stretch the challenges to once a week instead of every other day? That would easily cover three months, and would maybe make it easier to participate? I fell completely off the bandwagon this time after challenge #3 because I'm totally exhausted from my crazy workload, and thus felt overwhelmed by things like creating a challenge on my own page etc.

I found a writing meme that I'm now doing every weekend, and this rhythm is something I can manage.

[kate]

Yeah, I get that! I have definitely had snowflake years where I only did a handful of challenges because I couldn't keep up. I think extending it, or maybe shaking up how they're done would be helpful.