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

[kate]

Thanks for this! I forgot about sunshine, so actually, quarterly (seasonally) is starting to really ping me as a way to go. Adding Spring and Fall would give us something to look forward to and allow a break inbetween and also give each of them a bit more individual flavor, as well as their own communities.

I also agree that the challenges need not have the same timeline or structure as snowflake - avoiding repetition is certainly a good thing to keep in mind. I think there needs to be a fair amount of work in the month they go on, though, so there'd have to be a lot of volunteers. I think to the work I did on fandom stocking back in the day, and there just were NOT enough people to handle that well. Many hands make light work and all.

Yeah, I'm thinking I have enough energy to maybe get the Spring one started, but I'd have to have a call for volunteers and hopefully at least one other person with enough time and fannish interest to keep me propped up (the way saekhwa did with all the Losers stuff for so many years).

Definitely thinking more on this, thanks for your $.02!