As was discussed on the Discord, some people thought it might be fun to set up some kind of "book club" for fanfics, where a group of people get together and read/discuss the same story at the same time. Moving it over here to finalize some details and let more people in on the discussion!
- One suggestion was that we roll a story once per month, then read and discuss it until the next month rolls around. At that point, if we hadn't made it to the end of the story, anyone interested in continuing could break off into their own group to continue discussing, and anyone wanting to try a new story or new people wanting to jump in would have a new fic rolled for them. Perhaps a different cadence for this? Once every two months/once a quarter instead, if the fics selected for reading tend to be long?
- Would you instead prefer a general organization thread where people could find other people interested in reading a story who could then go off and discuss on their own?
- Combination of both? Other??
- What sort of fics should be read? This sort of thing definitely seems to lend itself to longer stories, so should there be some kind of chapter/wordcount minimum? (Though it also might be fun to do the odd "one-shot month" or similar, where a one-shot is read and discussed each week.) Should it be limited to stories posted on Thousand Roads? Should this be an opt-in thing where authors choose to submit stories for discussion, or opt-out where permission is sought only after a potential story's been selected?
And if you're interested... what's the first story we should tackle? Or if we choose to roll randomly, which one would you like to submit to the pool?
- One suggestion was that we roll a story once per month, then read and discuss it until the next month rolls around. At that point, if we hadn't made it to the end of the story, anyone interested in continuing could break off into their own group to continue discussing, and anyone wanting to try a new story or new people wanting to jump in would have a new fic rolled for them. Perhaps a different cadence for this? Once every two months/once a quarter instead, if the fics selected for reading tend to be long?
- Would you instead prefer a general organization thread where people could find other people interested in reading a story who could then go off and discuss on their own?
- Combination of both? Other??
- What sort of fics should be read? This sort of thing definitely seems to lend itself to longer stories, so should there be some kind of chapter/wordcount minimum? (Though it also might be fun to do the odd "one-shot month" or similar, where a one-shot is read and discussed each week.) Should it be limited to stories posted on Thousand Roads? Should this be an opt-in thing where authors choose to submit stories for discussion, or opt-out where permission is sought only after a potential story's been selected?
And if you're interested... what's the first story we should tackle? Or if we choose to roll randomly, which one would you like to submit to the pool?
