Heads Up This Thursday's Reading Room - and a Poll!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

This week's story is double-barrelled again The Lost and Found Series by Hutchynstarsk (two interconnected stories, 18,585 words) - and again our host will be fiorenza_a!

The Reading Room Schedule So Far
Thursday 24th September - fiorenza_a - The Lost and Found Series by Hutchynstarsk (two interconnected stories, c19,000 words).
Thursday 1st October - nypagan - The Secrets Beneath by Sally Fell (Longer story - c40k words,80 A4 pages)
Thursday 8th October - jessebee - story to be decided
Thursday 15th October - byslantedlight - story to be decided
Thursday 22nd October - nypagan - story to be decided
Thursday 29th October - byslantedlight - Legacy of Temptation by Ellis Ward (zine length, c100,000 words).
Thursday 5th November -
Thursday 12th November- msmoat - title to be decided
Thursday 19th November - fiorenza_a- The Pillory by Kitty Fisher (3,888 words)
Thursday 26th November - fiorenza_a - Any Other World by Andromeda (16,937 words)
And then it's December - shall we do a December/Winter/Christmas/Solstice/etc. Fic Calendar again? Or are we bored with that...?

Previous Recent Reading Rooms (for catching up!)
Thursday 20th August - jessebee - On The Side Of The Angels by AnythingButPink
Thursday 27th August - paris7am - Trip Through Your Wire by Garnet
Thursday 3rd September - gilda_elise - 19 Cleveland Street by Jaicen
Thursday 10th September - kiwisue - Festival of Lights by Dorinda
Thursday 17th September - fiorenza_a - <http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/279118.html">The Waiting Room Affair and Incident in a Stairwell by Debra Hicks (two connected stories).

-----------------------------------------------------------------
Volunteers to host stories all welcome - there is an ordinary spare date on the 15th October at the moment, and I've been asking a couple of questions about the 5th November and December dates for the past several weeks, but I think they must have been lost in the excitement of seeing what was up next, so let's try another way... *g*

The first question is about the Reading Room that falls on November 5th, which is An Occasion in the UK, has thus been included in various Pros fics, and which made me think it might be fun to have a Reading Room themed around that, since it's the exact day. *g* It could either just be a Bonfire Night-based story, or it could perhaps be a more general discussion about Bonfire Night-based stories, where perhaps we have a list of them (or make a list of them) and discuss them via favourites etc., and how we think they generally fit the lads' world etc.

The second question is about the Reading Room through December. In 2014, in 2013 and in 2012 and in 2011 and in 2010 we've had December/winter/Christmas/etc. themed recs, via a calendar of posting days for the advent countdown to Christmas. Everyone gets to join in, everyone gets to remind people of fics they like to keep us cheerful through the dark months (or the blazing hot months *waves to Southern Hemisphere and elsewhere that doesn't shiver*) and it's nice to have a fic pop up in our list every day, I reckon. (The idea was based on the Hatstander's Pros Advent Calendar of many years ago, posted by then-Nell Howell, and much missed). And we'd have to come up with some special kudos for people posting about stories that haven't been recced before, because that's a proper challenge now!

Or... I've just had another idea... *g* Maybe it'd be fun (and even more participatory, since we're a community after all *g*) to have a December Prosfic Treasure Hunt - we'd end up with a list of Pros December/Christmas fic to read in the same way, but we could organise it as a Treasure Hunt, just for a fun change. Either... *thinks*... I could post a themed Prosfic to guess from clues (helped by anyone who wanted to help) or people could volunteer for a day as usual, and they'd be the ones who give the clues. What d'you reckon? (Can't edit the poll to include this, so I'll do a separate one - if you answer all three polls please, then if people don't like this December-idea, we'll use the answers to the original December idea. *g*

[Poll #2022834]

[Poll #2022835]

And finally - I've nabbed the last free date on 15th October, if someone else would like to volunteer I'm happy for them to do that, so that we have lots of different people joining in. Just let me know if you'd like it!

Comments

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Duh, I wanted to do the reccing on November 5th...just forgot to tell you.
And I already now the story, just have to find it again....

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hi, and ack, sorry (always, always...) for the delay in replying...

Hmmn - I've had my thinking cap on a bit for this, cos hurrah for offering a November 5th rec, but on the other hand, the vote's come out on the side of having general bonfire night fic discussion. But maybe we can combine the two... (if it's a Bonfire Night fic that you had in mind?)

What if I opened a general discussion of Bonfire night fics, but we organised it so that each different fic discussed had it's own thread in the comments - so for instance, as volunteer reccer, yours would specifically be advertised the week before so people could definitely read it, and you'd put the title of the fic in the subject header of your comment, and then people would reply about that fic there, and then if other people wanted to throw in other Bonfire Night fics, then they'd make a new comment with that fic title in the subject header...? Maybe? Would that work for you at all? (And if it would, can you let me know the name of the fic, so I can add it to the schedule? *g*

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

That sounds lovely!
Lot's of bonfire night fics!
I'm not even sure mine is really one.
Tricks and treats by Callisto (http://www.thecircuitarchive.com/tca/archive/19/tricksand.html)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh! No, it's not - it's a halloween one, with tricks and treats! Would you like to share the halloween posting with me instead, then? I was going to do Legacy of Temptation, but maybe we could have the same kind of general theme-chat that day actually. Again I could do a general halloween-fic post, and we could both post our recs as comments for people to reply/chat to? Would that work for you? So that'd be the week before, on the 29th October? (Actually, it could be a trial-run for the format too - if it gets tangled we'll just do the bonfire night one as straight discussion, without separating fics into different comments...) *g*

Would that work for you?

[milomaus.livejournal.com]

Duh....I thought they belong together, but now, that I start thinking, I remember that it's not the same....

Anyway, it would work perfectly for me! Trial runs are always great, nobody can moan if something does go wrong. *gg*