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?

Comments

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. :-)

[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.