Post by Siana Blackwood on Aug 22, 2014 12:14:59 GMT 10
Some time around May this year, the staff of FebNoWriMo, MarNoWriMo, NaMayWriMo, SeptNoWriMo, NaNoPlotMo and Arrow of Eloquence had a serious conversation about the work of maintaining and updating all these sites for a very small number of regular members. The phrase 'redundant fruit loop chickens' was involved, referring to a conversation that happened across at least three forums, involving only two or three people. Our conclusion was that it was a better use of our resources to start a new forum and settle in there. We could still run the same monthly and multi-month challenges, but discussion would be much simpler and the staff duties would be a fraction of what they were before.
So, we created Steve the WriMo Forum, a place that combined the hang-outiness of NaNoPlotMo and Arrow of Eloquence with the monthly challenges of the SomethingNoWriMo events.
What this means is that as far as September events go, I'll be concentrating my attention on Steve-related things and not really doing anything at all with this site other than posting this message. People who want to participate in 'SeptNoWriMo' have the following options:
1. Join Steve the WriMo Forum and participate in the challenges there.
2. Join NaNoWriMo or Absolute Write and participate in the monthly chatter thread and accompanying challenges.
3. Contact me about taking over this site and running it yourself. I'm happy to give an enthusiastic writer full 'admin' privileges here. Ways to contact me:
4. Start an event of your own - a new forum, a social media group, an email circle, a chat room or some other method of bringing together a group of people.
So, we created Steve the WriMo Forum, a place that combined the hang-outiness of NaNoPlotMo and Arrow of Eloquence with the monthly challenges of the SomethingNoWriMo events.
What this means is that as far as September events go, I'll be concentrating my attention on Steve-related things and not really doing anything at all with this site other than posting this message. People who want to participate in 'SeptNoWriMo' have the following options:
1. Join Steve the WriMo Forum and participate in the challenges there.
2. Join NaNoWriMo or Absolute Write and participate in the monthly chatter thread and accompanying challenges.
3. Contact me about taking over this site and running it yourself. I'm happy to give an enthusiastic writer full 'admin' privileges here. Ways to contact me:
- PM me on this site, Steve, Absolute Write or NaNoWriMo. My username is 'admin' here and 'sianablackwood' elsewhere.
- Email me - sianablackwood at gmail.com.
- If you PM or email and I don't respond. visit Steve and either join the site to PM me or leave a message in the 'shoutbox' at the top of the page.
4. Start an event of your own - a new forum, a social media group, an email circle, a chat room or some other method of bringing together a group of people.