All quiet on the Pros-y poll front

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Well, it's been nearly a week and I suspect everyone who is going to/is interested has answered the poll - that's 16 of us, including me. So - what did people reckon?

Reading Room - 8 people would like to play and 8 would be happy to read it all.
Dear Author - 7 people would be happy to play and 9 just want to read.
Pros Cinema -5 people would play, 8 people would watch the vids, and 1 person felt enough was enough.

Other ideas that people suggested:
- 2 people mentioned episode discussions. I've tended to assume those will happen at the_safehouse, but there's no reason why they have to, and the mods don't seem to be around to start things, so I don't see why we couldn't do that over here.

- murphybabe mentioned a Guess the Author game that she and solosundance and moonlightmead had once talked about doing, but never quite organised, and I thought that sounded fun. The idea would be that writers would submit a brief piece of Pros writing (maybe written to a theme) and people would be given the stories and a list of authors, and would try to match them up. Could be fun? *g*

I think most people are worried about time - how do we all seem to have so much less time that we once had? It ain't fair, is it... The tricky thing is balancing things so that just a couple of people are actually "committed" to something each week, and everyone else gets to read/be entertained (I hope "just reading" means "perhaps commenting sometimes" - I should have specified!)

So - how about this? What if we schedule a weekly Reading Room, and a weekly Pros Cinema, and then a once-a-month Dear Author in place of the Reading Room? Do we want to offer a weekly episode at the start of each week, and then people have the week to watch and post whenever they want? We could try - even if just a couple of people post, it would be nice to see in our flists. And I shall ask for volunteers in the comments now!

1 - If you'll volunteer to host either a Reading Room or a Pros Cinema, please either let me know a date, or I'll assign you whichever date is free next. If you can let me know what story you'd like to host for Reading Room, then we start giving people notice-to-read!

2 - If you'd like to request an author for the Dear Author Discussions, or if you'd like to offer up your own stories for a Dear Author Discussion, then let me know/volunteer in the comments. We could schedule them maybe the first Thursday each month, just so we always know what's coming up?

3 - If you'd like there to be a Weekly Pros Episode, then let me know in the comments! And if so - how do we choose? Maybe new "Mark" dvd series order, just to be slightly different (it doesn't matter if you have those dvds or not)? Or perhaps backwards, starting at the end of Series 4? That could be interesting - would we watch the lads get closer, or further apart?! *g*

4 - Oh - and shout out if you fancy playing Guess the Author too. Maybe we could arrange that for a week in October?

The CI5hq Weekly Roster (We can't all be on obbo! *g*)
Friday 19th August - Pros Cinema -

Week beginning Monday 22 August - Pros Episode =
Thurs 25 August - Reading Room -
Friday 26 August - Pros Cinema -

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