Are You Ready to Weigh in?
WELCOME TO THE PUBLIC WEIGH IN CHALLENGE
vexed_wench and I are proposing a challenge between ourselves and are encouraging others to join us.
Our bunny piles are too fat. Each January, we vow to widdle them down and by the end of December each year, they still sit fat and bloated, despite our best efforts.
2017 shall be different. Clearly, we cannot police ourselves and are setting up a community to check in with our progress periodically. cheshirejin has agreed to be our taskmaster to run this little challenge and crack the whip... er wield the hammer? Arm the cattle prod? I'm sure she has a torture device of choice she will be wielding.
We are still hammering out the details themselves, but here are the basics: You join up with a finalized version of your bunny pile (aka your todo list of fics) and the total of fills on that list. Periodically, there will be check ins. By the end of the year, you will need to have completed 25% of your bunny pile or there will be a consequence.
Questions we imagine you have:
How often are check ins?
We have no bloody clue yet.
How do I figure out my totally fills?
One fic equals one fill. In order to count as completed, the fic must be posted, until then it is an open fill.
But I spent the year writing one 150,000 word fic!
We don't give a flying rat's ass about your word counts. One fic, one fill.
But I have tables on my todo list. How do I count that?
You subtract how many fills you have made on your table already from the total fills on your table. The number left is how many fills go towards your total.
Example: Kat's Halloween Table of Doom (14/115) = 101 fills to be made
But I have a bunch of bingo cards. What do I do?
A bingo card counts as 5 fills. If you have a 3x3 card instead of a 5x5 card, well, you are going to have to write 2 extra fics for this challenge. If you have a 7x7 card, clearly you are kattrip033 and cheshirejin will be having a stern talk with you.
What if I make a blackout on my card instead of a bingo?
Well, my little overachiever, that depends. If the other 20 fills on your bingo card don't count towards anything else on your bunny pile, you have two choices. One, you add the 20 other fics to your overall total, thus raising your total, but making all your fics you wrote count or two, you just wrote 20 fics that don't count towards anything.
What if I did something more complicated?
That depends on what you did. Let say you had a 5x5 card = 25 total prompts. Five of those filled count towards the 5 fills your bingo was worth. Out of the 20 left, one was a chapter to an ongoing story on your bunny pile, two were part of a series you pledged six fills for the year for, and three were individual fills in your bunny pile. Those eight fics count towards those eight fills, leaving you twelve fics that count towards nothing, unless you add them to your overall total like above.
Complicated fills will be discussed on an individual basis. kattrip033 seems to be the most willing to find a way for your stuff to count out of the three crazy people running this though.
Wait, did you just sort of say we can double dip?
Yes, you can double dip! We reward ingenuity! If you can find a way for your fic to double or even triple dip things in your bunny pile, we say go for it! If you are quadruple dipping though, that is beyond suspicious and you will most likely be speaking to cheshirejin.
What if I have a series I am writing or a chapter fic where I haven't decided how many total fics or chapters it will have in the end?
Just figure out how many additions you feel you should be able to make in a year's time and that is how many fills it will count for.
Wait, did you just say that each chapter of a chapter fic counts as a fill?
Yes, twice now.
What I if I have a question you haven't covered?
Ask. We are still setting up the rules and the comm itself isn't up and running yet. We are just trying to give people a heads up now so they can start preparing. We figure sign-up will be the first two weeks of January.
vexed_wench and I are proposing a challenge between ourselves and are encouraging others to join us.
Our bunny piles are too fat. Each January, we vow to widdle them down and by the end of December each year, they still sit fat and bloated, despite our best efforts.
2017 shall be different. Clearly, we cannot police ourselves and are setting up a community to check in with our progress periodically. cheshirejin has agreed to be our taskmaster to run this little challenge and crack the whip... er wield the hammer? Arm the cattle prod? I'm sure she has a torture device of choice she will be wielding.
We are still hammering out the details themselves, but here are the basics: You join up with a finalized version of your bunny pile (aka your todo list of fics) and the total of fills on that list. Periodically, there will be check ins. By the end of the year, you will need to have completed 25% of your bunny pile or there will be a consequence.
Questions we imagine you have:
How often are check ins?
We have no bloody clue yet.
How do I figure out my totally fills?
One fic equals one fill. In order to count as completed, the fic must be posted, until then it is an open fill.
But I spent the year writing one 150,000 word fic!
We don't give a flying rat's ass about your word counts. One fic, one fill.
But I have tables on my todo list. How do I count that?
You subtract how many fills you have made on your table already from the total fills on your table. The number left is how many fills go towards your total.
Example: Kat's Halloween Table of Doom (14/115) = 101 fills to be made
But I have a bunch of bingo cards. What do I do?
A bingo card counts as 5 fills. If you have a 3x3 card instead of a 5x5 card, well, you are going to have to write 2 extra fics for this challenge. If you have a 7x7 card, clearly you are kattrip033 and cheshirejin will be having a stern talk with you.
What if I make a blackout on my card instead of a bingo?
Well, my little overachiever, that depends. If the other 20 fills on your bingo card don't count towards anything else on your bunny pile, you have two choices. One, you add the 20 other fics to your overall total, thus raising your total, but making all your fics you wrote count or two, you just wrote 20 fics that don't count towards anything.
What if I did something more complicated?
That depends on what you did. Let say you had a 5x5 card = 25 total prompts. Five of those filled count towards the 5 fills your bingo was worth. Out of the 20 left, one was a chapter to an ongoing story on your bunny pile, two were part of a series you pledged six fills for the year for, and three were individual fills in your bunny pile. Those eight fics count towards those eight fills, leaving you twelve fics that count towards nothing, unless you add them to your overall total like above.
Complicated fills will be discussed on an individual basis. kattrip033 seems to be the most willing to find a way for your stuff to count out of the three crazy people running this though.
Wait, did you just sort of say we can double dip?
Yes, you can double dip! We reward ingenuity! If you can find a way for your fic to double or even triple dip things in your bunny pile, we say go for it! If you are quadruple dipping though, that is beyond suspicious and you will most likely be speaking to cheshirejin.
What if I have a series I am writing or a chapter fic where I haven't decided how many total fics or chapters it will have in the end?
Just figure out how many additions you feel you should be able to make in a year's time and that is how many fills it will count for.
Wait, did you just say that each chapter of a chapter fic counts as a fill?
Yes, twice now.
What I if I have a question you haven't covered?
Ask. We are still setting up the rules and the comm itself isn't up and running yet. We are just trying to give people a heads up now so they can start preparing. We figure sign-up will be the first two weeks of January.