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?

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[jesse_the_k]

As a lower-stress alternative, there's thefridayfive, which poses five questions to answer in your own journal with links back to a comm.

It crowd-sources the questions and the answers!

[kate]

Yes, I do like that comm, I've been on it before. It's definitely cool and low pressure, two good things about snowflake, too.

What I'm realizing (with perfect clarity as my life settles into the new year) is that I am not on DW regularly. It's just not part of my routines, daily, weekly, or otherwise. I have tumblr, slack, and discord open constantly, but not DW. I have a system of "daily things I need to do" and a list of "things I do if there's any leftover time in the day" and DW is so far down that second list that it easily goes many days (or weeks) without me checking it. And once it drops down to me checking less often than once a week, then it's likely going to fall off the list completely soon.

Snowflake works for me because it slots into my "daily things I need to do" and the interaction with all the other people keeps it in my inbox and therefore at the front of my mind. When snowflake isn't going on, the interactions are much less, too.

That's why, for me, the key to snowflake is the interaction. But that's a lot of work, and it's a strain on literally all the mods. This is all still percolating in the back of my brain, but I feel fairly certain that a spring version is out of the question, and fall will just have to see if I come up with things in the meantime and can corral enough people to do it.