I've been thinking about this. I really love the idea of the community, and the opportunity to work further on the characterisation of my PC. A large part of my slackness in posting is because I've been focusing on finishing the first draft of my thesis, and I can't promise that that will change any time soon so please take the following suggestions with a grain of salt!
For me, personally, I think having slightly wider prompts may help. A little bit more ambiguity about them gives the writer more leeway to read into them something that works for their player character. For example, prompt 4 "change of faith", could just be "faith". Or prompt 8 "greatest fear" could just be "fear". I would also personally suggest steering clear of prompts that heavily imply a certain type of player character - such as lock-picking, but maybe that's just me.
Another thing that might work for me, but I can totally understand if it wouldn't work for other people, would be to put a time limit on replies to prompts (i.e. before the next prompt is posted), but then have an amnesty round later on for any old prompts that people have written fic for. This is the way fan_flashworks works, and for me having that closing time is sometimes enough for me to get my butt into gear and actually finish/post something - PLUS I have the fun of working on older prompts more slowly while waiting for the regular amnesty round.
Again, I really like what you're doing and would love to participate more. Hopefully I will be able to find the time to squeeze some non-work writing time in, but as I said above, a deadline would help me to make it a bigger priority! :)
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For me, personally, I think having slightly wider prompts may help. A little bit more ambiguity about them gives the writer more leeway to read into them something that works for their player character. For example, prompt 4 "change of faith", could just be "faith". Or prompt 8 "greatest fear" could just be "fear". I would also personally suggest steering clear of prompts that heavily imply a certain type of player character - such as lock-picking, but maybe that's just me.
Another thing that might work for me, but I can totally understand if it wouldn't work for other people, would be to put a time limit on replies to prompts (i.e. before the next prompt is posted), but then have an amnesty round later on for any old prompts that people have written fic for. This is the way fan_flashworks works, and for me having that closing time is sometimes enough for me to get my butt into gear and actually finish/post something - PLUS I have the fun of working on older prompts more slowly while waiting for the regular amnesty round.
Again, I really like what you're doing and would love to participate more. Hopefully I will be able to find the time to squeeze some non-work writing time in, but as I said above, a deadline would help me to make it a bigger priority! :)