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May
Update: How does Wednesday sound for Blog Carnival day? And I’d like to get theme suggestions in today, so I can put a poll up for the next carnival (the week after next Wednesday).
This is an idea that sprung to mind this afternoon, and was fleshed out by chatting with a few other authors.
What do writers think of a blog carnival for twitter writers? For those who don’t know what a blog carnival is, this is a great example (just click on any week). Basically, each week a blog would have the privilege of hosting the carnival, and provide links (and usually short excerpts) to all those who submitted articles for the week. This drives traffic to multiple blogs and writers, and allows new writers to get their name out there in a simple manner.
To differentiate this from Friday Flash and Tuesday Serial, I would suggest that each week has a theme (or perhaps two themes) around which the stories are written. This theme would need to be announced a week in advance of the submission date. I believe a poll would be the best method, so that writers may choose that which most interests them.
Stories would be of approximately 1000 words, and can also be submitted for Friday Flash or Tuesday Serial. Good stories deserve as wide an audience as possible.
There would also need to be a coordinator for the blog carnival. Much as I like the idea, I won’t have consistent enough internet access over the summer to serve in the role, so someone else would need to be nominated.
For those interested, please comment here, or send me a message on Twitter. I would like to have 5-10 interested authors before starting this up.
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T.S. Bazelli on 05.11.2010
Interested! But don’t have the time to do the coordinating. I’d love to participate though.
Ziggy Kinsella on 05.12.2010
Sounds like fun, count me in
Emma Newman on 05.12.2010
I am definitely interested too, but I barely have enough hours in the day as it is… Happy to help promote it on Twitter and my blog though, for what it’s worth. x
The Four Part Land on 05.12.2010
Thanks all. Updated the front post with a few more notes.
@Emma You can just use your Tuesday Serial entry for the writing, and promoting it is a great help 🙂
@Ziggy Will do 🙂
@TS All you have to do is write 🙂
@lil_monmon on 05.12.2010
I’m interested in participating. I can’t do the coordination. Too many things are out of balance for me to be able to reliably take the helm.
Doreen McGettigan on 05.12.2010
I have no idea what it is but would love to participate!