A thought...

[valis2]

I was hoping for a little input from the community members.

Do you think we should list out all of the challenge pieces for each challenge, have a poll, and vote to determine a "winner"?

My first thought in creating this community was to have a non-competitive place for unusual short HP writing, but I realized that people do enjoy the "winning" aspect of a challenge, and even though I was only making challenges for fun, some of you might want to have a real competition.

Comment here and let me know what you think!

Comments

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

Oh I dunno, you probably shouldn't listen to me since I haven't even manage to get over there and join, but competition usually leads to wank.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking about keeping it mostly competition free, as I originally envisioned it, with the occasional judging for certain events.

That is if I can get the membership boosted. I've been racking my brain over where to post it. I put up a couple poems today with a "crossposted to quirky" thing, hoping to get a little foot-traffic.

I'm wondering if I've gone about it in the wrong way. I never envisioned it as a humorous community. I was originally going to call it "oddhpshorts" and have it as a place where I could put little bits and pieces of unusual fic. But a friend said "odd" was too off-putting and that I should use "quirky". So I did. And now it looks demented because half of it is really dark!fic and the other half is humor!fic.

Oh well.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

LJ will not let me reply to your other comment, so I'll do it here.

You wrote: I thought it was supposed to be all humor, where'd all the dark!fic come from? Ugh. Aren't there enough sites overrun by angst?
I should go look, eh? I've been meaning to join but as I don't write in the fandom anymore it felt rather voyeristic.
But if it's gone all dark---aggghhh.
Damn. And I was gonna post a limerick.

I actually wanted it to be a dark!fic community, but it started in a much more light-hearted manner, with lots of squids and poetry and such. I keep posting dark!fic and now I'm giving myself a headache because I'm so worried that it looks bizarre to have dark!fic and limericks on the same community.

So most everyone else is writing happy stuff, but I keep posting these dark poems and such. Right now it has a rather schizoid appearance.

Just post your limerick! Everyone will be thrilled, I'm certain.

Now I'm wondering if I should break off and create a second community so that the light!fic and dark!fic will be separate. Then I keep thinking that is just too much.

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

Ok well I got the humor idea from the icon I think. Snape in a party hat didn't say dark!fic to me. I can do dark. But I'm kinda over it. It didn't go over all that well.
It's YOUR site! Put what you want on it!

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I may just run with the whole dark & fun fic all in the same community. What the hell. We'll see what happens.