A Week's Delay...and a Poll

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I decided to wait until April 9 to start FemGen VI. A great many ficathons are starting, finishing or posting right now, so I thought it best to delay a bit so that we wouldn't be lost in the shuffle. Also, this being a holiday weekend, I know that a number of people will be away with family and friends. So it seemed better, overall, to wait a week.

But we will definitely start next Friday.

And now, a poll:

[Poll #1546819]

Keep in mind that there are only 160 prompts (well, 161, but the odd one out is for me), so when they're gone, they're gone.

Also, every year we get a few people who want to sign up when the prompts are all taken. What would you think about letting these people pick one of the existing prompts?

Comments

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

Getting a random prompt (via the pick a number style) pushed me to write something I would never have thought of otherwise, so I like the current system. I don't particularly care if people claim/use the same prompt though. Or if you gave out unfilled prompts from the past years (that is, if you aren't already recycling them into this years prompts). Whatever is less stress for you! After all, either way its more people writing about women.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

I think that I might allow each prompt to be claimable twice. The first person who picks a number doesn't know what she's getting; the second one does. So there would be 322 potential stories about women. I hope this is the year that we hit 100 stories or more.

If all the prompts are claimed twice before April 16...well, then, I might go with the unused prompts from previous years--if I haven't recycled them already for this year, that is.