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Thank you three for encouraging me to restart this! Now: Options!

The original Owl's Challenge was a daily one-word prompt. Do the whole week, get five points. If people want me to do that again, I can do that again. I still have a whole list of words... somewhere. I'll find them.

That said, I've been thinking about something more involved. Maybe a weekly challenge, and rather than anything-goes, specifically have everyone make (small!) storygames. Not necessarily complete games with a beginning, middle, and end, but something interactive. Like a piece of something that could theoretically be an actual storygame, the way writing exercises are often like a scene out of something that could be an actual story.

I realize that just getting words on a page is always good, and there is something to be said for the simplicity of Option A... but I know I'd specifically like to build my interactive fiction muscles, and maybe Option B would encourage some of us to do that.

Don't say both. I'm not doing both. If the majority favors Option B but some folks are still interested in Option A, I will happily give my blessing to someone else to run a word-a-day challenge.

So, what say you, CYS?

Option B is interesting, and the weekly timeframe sounds more ideal for avoiding burnout. There are a quite a lot of activities going on right now in addition to the big contest, so something low commitment may be best. This could be a cool idea to encourage people to play around with scripting and the like and find testers too.

This - though I know I wasn't tagged nor am I a prominent site member - sounds like a lot of fun, especially option B. It seems low-commitment, like Mizal said, but for those of us who procrastinate chronically on finishing full projects, it seems like a good motivator to keep going.

With option B, when posting a snippet, people could also give the snippets to other people as free reign. Mizal has suggested doing the same with past THUNDERDOME entries as well, I believe.

Anyway, I must go back to being productive now.

Option B!