AetherX
make plove not warble
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Not trying to distract from awards or Game of Thrones, but I have a quick announcement.
So I realize that post counts don't really mean anything, but given that I have at most 50-60 posts on BMGf somewhere other than what is now called the Written Word or Fiction Fairground, I think it's pretty cool that I'm nearing 1000. I mentioned a little while back that to celebrate this largely meaningless occasion I was thinking of doing a review spree. After some thought I decided that I definitely want to do one. So here's the plan:
Post #949 will be in this thread letting everyone know I'm starting and what the dealio is. I will then read and review the first 50 fics in the Fairground over the course of however long as it takes. The reviews themselves will be proportional to the length of the fic (or at least, how much of it I haven't reviewed before). Anything more than some arbitrary amount of chapters will get one of my full-on page long reviews that I haven't done in a while. Then post #1000 will be an Unpredictable update because that silly story is what made me come to this wonderful forum in the first place.
I'll hope/try to get it all done in a month from the starting date, kind of a NaNoWriMo of reviews that I hope some of you will also consider setting goals for. I realize that this probably won't happen for another few weeks at least, but I thought I'd bring it up and see if you all had any thoughts or suggestions.
Here's hoping schoolwork doesn't get any worse.
EDIT: Something I meant to say: If I owe any of you reviews, I've kind of been putting them off for this. Not trying to cop out or anything, it's just that the first 50 means the first two pages. That means that I'd probably end up writing reviews that one-time inactive authors never see. I want to avoid that.
So I realize that post counts don't really mean anything, but given that I have at most 50-60 posts on BMGf somewhere other than what is now called the Written Word or Fiction Fairground, I think it's pretty cool that I'm nearing 1000. I mentioned a little while back that to celebrate this largely meaningless occasion I was thinking of doing a review spree. After some thought I decided that I definitely want to do one. So here's the plan:
Post #949 will be in this thread letting everyone know I'm starting and what the dealio is. I will then read and review the first 50 fics in the Fairground over the course of however long as it takes. The reviews themselves will be proportional to the length of the fic (or at least, how much of it I haven't reviewed before). Anything more than some arbitrary amount of chapters will get one of my full-on page long reviews that I haven't done in a while. Then post #1000 will be an Unpredictable update because that silly story is what made me come to this wonderful forum in the first place.
I'll hope/try to get it all done in a month from the starting date, kind of a NaNoWriMo of reviews that I hope some of you will also consider setting goals for. I realize that this probably won't happen for another few weeks at least, but I thought I'd bring it up and see if you all had any thoughts or suggestions.
Here's hoping schoolwork doesn't get any worse.
EDIT: Something I meant to say: If I owe any of you reviews, I've kind of been putting them off for this. Not trying to cop out or anything, it's just that the first 50 means the first two pages. That means that I'd probably end up writing reviews that one-time inactive authors never see. I want to avoid that.
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