Stop the madness!! I know that some people really, really love a crazy race to produce the maximum number of entries. I do not think an item a day should be a goal at all. Just smack me down! I realize this is probably a minority/heretical position. But, you asked!
I really found it hard to sort through it all as a consumer and, therefore, did not find/enjoy the quality pieces that were lost among a mountain of new entries every day.
As a producer, it exhausted me and brought me very little satisfaction. I think I wrote something like two ficlets out of the whole mess that I am happy to have done.
I had fun doing a bunch of photomanips and pasting quotations on them. But that did not exactly encourage me to try to produce something meaningful and thoughtful which added depth to my volume of work in the fandom.
Can't we do something simple that results in one or two quality pieces from each of the participants?
Obviously, there are some distinquished drabblers who would like to do more throughout the month. But, honestly, creating a fine drabble is an art form (not just the ability to count to 100) and not every writer ought to be churning them out in volume, one or more per day, simply to satisfy 31 prompts.
Sometimes less is more
I really found it hard to sort through it all as a consumer and, therefore, did not find/enjoy the quality pieces that were lost among a mountain of new entries every day.
As a producer, it exhausted me and brought me very little satisfaction. I think I wrote something like two ficlets out of the whole mess that I am happy to have done.
I had fun doing a bunch of photomanips and pasting quotations on them. But that did not exactly encourage me to try to produce something meaningful and thoughtful which added depth to my volume of work in the fandom.
Can't we do something simple that results in one or two quality pieces from each of the participants?
Obviously, there are some distinquished drabblers who would like to do more throughout the month. But, honestly, creating a fine drabble is an art form (not just the ability to count to 100) and not every writer ought to be churning them out in volume, one or more per day, simply to satisfy 31 prompts.