Brief Fishbowl Followup

[ysabetwordsmith]

Okay, yesterday's Poetry Fishbowl went bonkers again.  I'm still processing what happened and why, and how to work with it.  A bunch of new poems are already up; click the "poem" tag to see them.  I didn't get through all the prompts I wanted to cover -- or even one from everybody -- so I'm going to try doing a bit more today.  Plus I have all the usual aftermath work to do.  We need to make an extra trip into town today as well.  Just keep an eye on my blog, and I'll do my best to keep you-all posted on developments.  And look at the fishie swimming!


$201.50 raised, first goal MET, second goal MET

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Comments

Re: Yes...

[marina-bonomi.livejournal.com]

One more vote for the ticker (and delegating its management), it's great to be able to see how the fishbowl is doing and how near (or far) the goals are.

Sorry about the time-consuming historical prompts, but I love bot history and what you do with it.
I'll try to give more 'no-background-research-needed prompts.

Re: Yes...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

>>One more vote for the ticker (and delegating its management), it's great to be able to see how the fishbowl is doing and how near (or far) the goals are.<<

This helps a lot, thank you.

>>Sorry about the time-consuming historical prompts, but I love bot history and what you do with it.
I'll try to give more 'no-background-research-needed prompts. <<

I like historical prompts, as well as other kinds. Some series are just going to lean that way, for instance. It's when things stack up that I start scrambling; this month there just happened to be a bunch of factors that ate time. Other months, I wind up doubling back to write extra prompts by the same people because very little is coming in. I'd say, if there are already several prompts that look like they'll take research and/or if the prompts are running way ahead of me posting thumbnails, that's a time when non-research prompts would be more welcome. But if there's not much going on yet, go ahead and give me something historical.

Basically, the kinds of things that eat time break down into things I can influence readily vs. things I can't, and things I'm willing to tinker with vs. things I don't want to mess up. I will at some point collate my musings into a post about what happened during this fishbowl and what I think can be done in the future to keep the activity high without swamping me.