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Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2025-06-11 11:57 pm
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Contemplating July activities

After a couple of years of really struggling with mood and creativity, between burnout and family issues and god knows what (and I know I've been hard to deal with in fandom, at times), things are suddenly ... good! I can write again, I'm signing up for exchanges, whatever has been blocking me has gotten a whole lot better.

July is my birthday month, therefore Best Month, obviously, and I would really like to try to do some kind of "post a short fic every day" thing if I can make it work. Unfortunately I'm suffering a dearth of appropriate challenges, because of course now that I want one and have the mental bandwidth to do something with one, daily month-long prompt challenges and/or bingo card challenges for July are nowhere in sight. The closest thing is July Break Bingo, but I've asked for cards for this before, and I just ... never really do anything with them; I appreciate that it exists, but I think I need more of a - I don't know, social element to it, I guess? Less open-ended, more directed? Their cards just don't really click with me somehow. And I can't find a Tumblr prompt/whump/whatever themed promptfest thing for July.

So I'm kicking around a few different ideas. Why not throw it out to a completely nonbinding poll?

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What should I do for July?

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A custom bingo card/prompt list created (by me) from all my favorite tropes
17 (56.7%)

A personal challenge to finish older inbox prompts/unwritten prompts from past fests
8 (26.7%)

Find a prompt list from a previous (non-July) fest that I didn't do at the time, and use that
6 (20.0%)

Ask my flist for new prompts until I get 31 of them for fresh inspiration
11 (36.7%)

Run a comment fest over at the Biggles comm
7 (23.3%)

Something else that I will suggest in comments
0 (0.0%)

sweetsorcery: (biggles/evs_crazyisland)

[personal profile] sweetsorcery 2025-06-12 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
I've requested July Break Bingo cards again, but I'm not sure I did anything with last year's either. I think it was more a case of having too many other ideas that didn't fit any of the prompts, so I'm trying again.

Always love a Biggles comm fest!
philomytha: airplane flying over romantic castle (Default)

[personal profile] philomytha 2025-06-12 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
If you want a more social element, if you end up with a July prompt list/bingo card, you could invite your flist and other fandom people to use it too... I should expect a prompt list or bingo card made up of your favourite tropes would appeal to lots of people :-D
lunabee34: (writer by sukibluefiction)

[personal profile] lunabee34 2025-06-12 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yay for writing!
silverflight8: bee on rose  (Default)

[personal profile] silverflight8 2025-06-12 03:05 pm (UTC)(link)
*thinking guiltily of her own, not done bingos*
ellenmillion: (Default)

[personal profile] ellenmillion 2025-06-12 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I voted for the first option, but really, all of the above! Mine your older prompts and ask for ideas to compile your complete list!
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[personal profile] osprey_archer 2025-06-12 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I picked a couple of options, but they all sound fun, really. (Also, fellow July birthday here! REPRESENT.)