Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
Reading challenge suggestion box and new rules for next year!
Rose:
You're right on both counts.
Three if you count the idea to just do a poll LOL.
mare:
LOL!
I do just want to add that the way the challenge is now it's set to that second rule but sometimes those stories do not read like they are 2/3 finished. Keep that in mind too.
RokofAges75:
Yeah, as a reader, I would prefer to read something complete so I can give feedback on the whole story. Also, I would not want to feel obligated to read the rest of the story after the challenge if I didn't really want to or to have to read a lot more than I signed up for because of the story being updated as the challenge was going on. That said, as long as we get a choice in what we read, it shouldn't matter because readers who feel the same way I do can just choose stories that are complete.
From the writing side of things, I'm kind of on the fence. I usually only submit complete stories for this challenge, but this year I would have submitted Song for the Undead for sure and maybe Sick as My Secrets because those are really the only stories I have worth submitting that haven't already been read for this challenge. I'm glad Rose went ahead and submitted Undead, but I'm also glad I can wait another year before submitting SAMS because it will be so much farther (hopefully finished?) by next summer.
There's not a rule about submitting the same story more than one year, is there? Because I've always tried to submit stories that haven't been read for this before, but I'm running out of ones to submit! Have any of you submitted a story that was already chosen and read for a previous year's challenge?
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on August 03, 2014, 04:41:57 AM ---LOL!
I do just want to add that the way the challenge is now it's set to that second rule but sometimes those stories do not read like they are 2/3 finished. Keep that in mind too.
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Sometimes it's hard to know if your story is 2/3 finished or not, unless you have the whole thing planned out chapter by chapter. Otherwise it's just an estimate.
mare:
No, you can submit the same story every single year because the rule is you can't read the same story for the challenge, so you'd just always get someone else reading it. A new pair of eyes for the same story is always a good thing too.
And that is also a good point when it comes to picking your stories. Sometimes people only have a few left to chose from though and sometimes people claim they are more than halfway done but when you read it you see they are clearly not or at least it reads that way.
As far as the whole obligation part, that's why I decided to make that slight change from last year. Last year I said that as long as the story was being updated while the challenge was going on, you had to keep reading. I decided that wasn't really fair to the reader to have to wait on the person updating it to finish up their surveys. So now, once that final survey is done, the obligation is over. Then if you want to continue reading it's your choice and not mine.
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