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

[pensnest]

I'm sorta torn... There is the Sunshine Challenge, in July, which is an excellent addition to the calendar, and which last year worked in a somewhat different way to Snowflake which I thought was very good. The prompts made it easier to talk about Something Interesting, without having to be repetitive.

The thing about Snowflake is that it has got to be hard to think up daily challenges that can apply to everyone. Doesn't matter what your fandom is/fandoms are, you can do X. I've been doing the Snowflake Challenge for several years, and am aware of a certain amount of repetition, because it's inevitable.

Perhaps the way forward might be to have one challenge per month? (Perhaps, per month but excluding January, July and December?) Something fairly general? Then again, it might be that the compression of Snowflake into one month is one of the reasons why it works: I know a lot of people have trouble keeping up, but if it were more spread, I suspect a lot would lose interest.

I definitely understand the appeal of the idea of more pan-fandom challenges.

[kate]

I totally hear you about repetition. For me it's a little comforting, actually, as the repetition points up how my interests and fandoms have changed year to year (and sometimes even my take on the questions), but doing the same challenges multiple times in a single year would be too much.

I had forgotten about sunshine, though I am signed up for it. If we went Quarterly, we could go with a seasonal theme, and that would tie all the comms together, but allow there to be enough differences between them for them to be unique.

I think part of the thing that keeps people doing it is the timeline - I'm literally checking snowflake every day. If it was one challenge a month, I'd forget about it for sure. But there are ways to do this that are still low pressure. I love the low pressure feel of snowflake, I feel like that's one of the most important aspects. *continues to think on it*

Thanks for your input!