The collector is open! Click here to enter your link and view the list of entered links. Remember, you can enter any short story or flashfiction you’ve written. I’ll be putting together a new flash tonight for the carnival.
To tweet your links, please use #WritersCarnival as the hashtag. I’ll be running a search on that and adding any links that weren’t added to the collector.
We’ve got until Wednesday morning to get this off the ground, so please spread it far and wide. I’ll be posting the final set of links sometime Wednesday afternoon.
So, this got a decent amount of feedback and comments, so I’m going ahead with it. I will be posting an open collector for the posts Sunday night or Monday morning, and closing it Tuesday night at midnight. Wednesday morning, I’ll post the links to all of the submitted entries. Those who want to do the hosting and the publishing of the blog carnival the next time, please contact me sometime early next week (I’m away all weekend).
Remember that stories posted for FridayFlash or TuesdaySerial are accepted, as are any other stories.
Thanks again for helping to get this off the ground.
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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.