Snowflake Challenge Day 6

[smirkingcat]

Day 6

In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your wish-list if you feel comfortable doing so. Maybe someone will grant a wish. Check out other people's posts. Maybe you will grant a wish. If any wishes are granted, we'd love it if you link them to this post.

so it is wishing time, i can totally do that:
if ther was a stardust fairy to grant me my wishes, i would ask for

• more podficers! there is nothing like having a fanfic read to you, and you can do it while you are cleaning the flat/fighting the ironing/amuse your pet- podfics are just awesome and we do need more of them
  
  
• in relation to one, i would wish for more authors (for me this is especially for hp-authors) to state if they give blanked permission, or have a list up of either works they are ok with to be podficed, or works they wish would not be podficed, this would be soooo helpful!



• i wish for a strict accountability partner when it goes to writing. i set out 2019 with writing every day for half an hour, i know it is possible... i haven't written a word since the 4th... this is so frustrating.
  i would do it with a point system- where we would keep each others point, everybody gets 100 base points- meeting your daily goal grants you 5 points, not doing so penalty of 10 points - the first one reaching 0 has to state so on their journal- and show the amount of the scores(or some other penalty), then there would be a reset - the idea being it never gets to 0 though; we could totally do that in groups i think- but NO excuses outside of: in hospital sick/unconcious/broken fingers is allowed- none! anyone up for that?

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this involves keeping score which sounds like work

[oldtoadwoman]

I like the idea of an accountability partner, but the act of keeping score itself seems like another task that I'd just let slide. (Also I'm pretty shameless and would just post, "Yeah, I'm at negative a million points or something.") Negative points are also discouraging. It's more motivating to me to move forward.

Anyway, today I did not get around to working on the story that I wanted to work on, but I have the goal of writing for at least five days a week so to claim this as a writing day I wrote a drabble in a completely different fandom. :-)

Re: this involves keeping score which sounds like work

[smirkingcat]

interesting point, especially seeing how different we all are
for me i am never the type to work to something i always work to get away from something so negative points would work very well with me, and admitting i failed at something that easy would kill me inside

good luck with your writing progress!!! i hope you can do it!

Re: this involves keeping score which sounds like work

[oldtoadwoman]

I need a fandom Mom who will just nag me to finish shit. In addition to writing, I have two art deadlines looming.

Did you write today?

Re: this involves keeping score which sounds like work

[smirkingcat]

wow for knowing how to art! that is impressive - i hope you can do it!
and yes i managed- i even got rid of my negative count towards gywo challenge *yay me* sad thing i did not study as hard as i should have because of that... *headdesks*

[octahedrite]

I'd be interested in this. Like the other commenter said, manually keeping score would be tedious; but if you use a spreadsheet or something to track words written per day, you could automate assigning points easily, no?

base_points = 100
daily_goal = n
if the words written on any day < 'n', points = points - 10
if the words written on any day >= 'n', points = points + 5

What do you think? I'm not very good with Excel, so I can't speak about it; but I use a csv file to track my wordcount and this would be easy enough to implement in my workflow.

I'd want to get more than 5 points for exceeding my goal, though. I'd prefer -5/+10 rather than -10/+5 as you have described.

[smirkingcat]

this sound awesome!
and wow - i can totally see you rocking algorithms <3
as for the points they are of course negotiable - my thought was to make the not writing hurt, so that one (aka me) does not start calculating how often i can miss something; "i am a minimal effort to just bearly hit the curve of passing"-person, maybe we can also agree to have different scores for the points- and then just do the "final" count as a ratio like 2:1?
but i fear that might be even more complicated

[octahedrite]

Haha, thanks, but data structures & algorithms (DSA, we call curse it) is a totally different beast.

You mean a ratio of days written:days skipped, right? That's easy too. From the spreadsheet, you know the number of days you've written/met your daily goal this year (say, N days). For a total of M days elapsed since the start of the year, the ratio would be N:M-N. What do you think? We could whip up a python script to do this pretty easily.

[On a kind of related note, If you like negative reinforcement(?), you could try something like Habitica. I've used it for a long time.]

P.S. Did you write today? All I've written is this comment...

[smirkingcat]

no i did not write yesterday, because when i had the time i said i would do it later, even when i already knew that later there would be my formula student(i dont know if you know about that) racing team party, and i only came back after midnight and was way too tired... but i will write double the amount today!

and i did try habitica (not sure if my username is still valid though)... the thing is i mostly do habits and most of my small time habits work, and i didnt find a group to work with there, when we are just 2 or three people i think it would be easier

i have no idea about python... i only use it to play around with unix shell and get to the threading and multiplexing and stuff;
and i meant an ratio of points frome one player to the other- like i go for the full penalty 10 minus 5 plus, but the other turns it around to 5 minus/ 10 plus - at the end of the run/or year if nobody ever sees 0 there must still be a ratio on how the points count towards each other, right?
... and gosh this feels too early still XD" so if i dont make sense, sorry

[octahedrite]

>but i will write double the amount today!

Yay :)

>and i did try habitica (not sure if my username is still valid though)... the thing is i mostly do habits and most of my small time habits work, and i didnt find a group to work with there, when we are just 2 or three people i think it would be easier

Yeah, Habitica sucks if you don't have a party. Sorry for the unsolicited advice :P

>i have no idea about python... i only use it to play around with unix shell and get to the threading and multiplexing and stuff;

whoa, threading, multiplexing... I have no idea how to do stuff like that. I use Python, yeah, but only for stupid stuff like arithmetic, reading files, etc :o I study electronics, not CS, so I that's probably why.

>at the end of the run/or year if nobody ever sees 0 there must still be a ratio on how the points count towards each other, right?

Hmm, not really? Because then someone could have their points as -1/+100 and pretty much never see zero. But their ratio of days written to days skipped would be the same regardless of the point system. (Correct me if my reasoning is wrong -- this is an extreme example...) So no, I think if we're going to track people's points then everybody should follow the same system. Going off your original suggestion, we could follow something like:

- if you exceed your goal by 20%, +10 points;
- if you write 0 words, -10 points;
- if you reach your writing goal, +5 points;
- if you write but don't reach your daily goal, -5 points.

I think this is similar enough to what you suggested initially; can be improved though. What do you think?

[smirkingcat]

I study electronics
uhhhhh - i want to go into robotics later on, so from where i am sitting you get to do all the fun stuff, sadly electronics was not offered through my program but wow go you for doing electronics!

- if you exceed your goal by 20%, +10 points;
- if you write 0 words, -10 points;
- if you reach your writing goal, +5 points;
- if you write but don't reach your daily goal, -5 points.

sounds amazing to me!!!!

also never be sorry for advice- i know many for whom habitica worked wonders, i am simply not one of those ;)

[octahedrite]

Hey, go you for doing CS! It's a beautiful and challenging field :)

Glad we agree on the point scheme :) What are we using for tracking? I use Python + a CSV for tracking my wordcounts, so I'll edit my script and post it on my journal by tomorrow (hopefully, might take a couple of days max).

[smirkingcat]

well if you were so kind to share your script and csv with me i can use it in my linux system
- one point how do we contact each other at the end of the day - also i think i am before you in time- i am in europe

[octahedrite]

I'll post it soon. It can count and store wordcounts to a file as well as calculate points. My primary OS is Linux and the script uses `wc` for counting words (which I think is only available on Unix), but the point calculator should work on any OS.

I'm in Asia. We could contact each other at the end of the day our time, so both of us could be updated on our progress by the next morning?

Can we use Dreamwidth PMs? Or should we make a spreadsheet on Google Drive? The spreadsheet would be easier for long-term tracking and seeing trends. I might be able to automate updating the GDrive spreadsheet through the script, I'll have to look into it...