New Year Resolutions

[amaresu]

Every year after Yuletide the New Year Resolutions archive opens and sits all year long. The collection usually collects somewhere around 100 works. I think that's a bit sad and was wondering if anyone would be interested in a focused attempt to fulfill more NYRs?

Poll #12644 New Year Resolutions?

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I would be interested in participating in a NYR ongoing challenge

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Yes
26 (50.0%)

No
0 (0.0%)

Maybe
26 (50.0%)

Please discuss your opinions and ideas.

Comments

[senmut]

Bless you.

Back when we had daily yuletide stories, and NYR prompts attached, I wrote more NYR stories. Now, despite the effort of the soul who does a weekly round up, reminding me NYR exists, I don't go looking for prompts.

Why? I hate lists. I get through a couple hundred, then +poof+ my attention span melts.

Seriously, if there was a way to just ... show some random prompts on a daily or weekly basis, I think more folks might write them. Because seeing it in a list is different than seeing it pop up in a small post. The small post and random invite to write a prompt that suits your brain on that day just... does something.

[amaresu]

It'd be neat if I had just a script that would go through and grab random prompts. Because that list is huge and even just grabbing random prompts makes my eyes blur.

What would that even be coded in? Maybe having a goal would get me to learn a programming language? I don't know.

[senmut]

+lol+

One reason I didn't finish my IT degree was my lack of love for programming. But maybe someone on our list can figure out that?

Parameters would be a certain number of prompts with no duplication of previous results (which means it basically would 'delete' the prompts from access for the next generation of prompts. The certain number could be decided by taking the total number of unwritten prompts and dividing by the number of days to December, perhaps, for a daily, or by dividing that number by the weeks left for a weekly list.

[rmc28]

In theory I should be able to write something like this (I've been a software developer for over 13 years now ...) but it's not my usual day-job stuff so I'll need to figure something out. Subject to my usual lack-of-free time but I think daily would be better, make it only a few prompts per post.

I'll have a think and a play but if someone else gets there first, hurrah.

[senmut]

Oh you rock if you get a chance to do it!

[amaresu]

That would be awesome if you could do it.