admin note: rectember brainstorming?

[snickfic]

Hey, folks! I've been thinking about doing an event in September to encourage reccing and maybe even draw some people out of the woodwork who haven't recced anything here yet. I was thinking of some kind of daily or mostly-daily themes, so for example:

Sep 1 - rec a work you've read many times
Sep 2 - rec a work rated explicit/NC-17
etc

Would folks here enjoy doing participating in an event like this? I'm envisioning coming up with the themes in the next day and a half, publishing them all in a list on Sep 1, and then posting weekly reminders.

It would be zero-pressure - people could post for days that inspired them and skip the days that didn't. You would be posting your recs each day directly to the comm (both to increase posting at the comm and because it means less tagging work for me). You could also post several days in one post if you wanted.

Yay? Nay? Suggestions on daily themes? Suggestions for improvement?

Comments

[doranwen]

Ah! Yeah, I did not catch that you meant multiple themes at one time. I was assuming one theme at a time. That might help, actually. Like if I can only think of one or two per theme, I might actually be able to come up with five or six recs that way, if I can post for multiple themes in the one post. We'll see, it really depends on the themes.

I actually *want* to post actual posts at some point (that's one of the major bonus features of the database I built, how easy it makes that to do based on themes and stuff), I just have had projects weighing me down and I haven't felt like I had a lot of free time for even writing, but I'm hoping to wrap some of that up in the next month.

Hee, yeah, I don't find tagging takes that long, but I didn't know if you found it just mentally exhausting or what. :)

I should repost one of the recs posts I did in the past on my own DW, maybe - or link to it or something. I had a super extensive recs post I did a couple years ago for Rookie Blue (180+ fics, organized by episode and to some extent, by ship), and I've got a general multifandom recs post on my DW by theme (romantic friendship, hurt/comfort, friendship, missing scene, AU, etc.) that would be really easy to share, but I didn't know whether I should link to it from here, whether I should just copy the text from the post, or what…