Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 15

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Continuing the meme/challenge begun and tracked here.

Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 15

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something fun you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this [the assignment] post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I don’t have anything specific to recommend, but there’s a general challenge that will cover a lot of ground:

Stretch yourself. Try something new.

There are so many different ways to do that. My first participation in the Fandom Snowflake Challenge was new to me, though I’d gone along with memes before, and I can’t adequately describe or properly value just how much this event (both times) made me think and reach and get outside my personal comfort zone. The first time I ever heard of the thing called ‘remix’, I knew I wanted to get in on that, and I’ve been happily at it for — let’s see — eight years now.

(More than a few remix opportunities out there. RemixRedux skipped a year but came back in 2014, so it can still be considered a possibility. I run a small one of my own, the Circle of Friends (cof_remix). kerravonsen hosted GenRemix a few years ago, and she’s still active so she might respond to requests to run it again; deird1 did BuffyRemix the year RemixRedux was on hiatus, and she might be open to another run. akamine_chan is pointing — here — to a reverse-remix event/idea that doesn’t appeal to me at all … but I’m me, and some people might love the challenge. I’m sure there are others I don’t know about … and, if you really want to quietly give it a try, you can contact someone privately and ask if you can remix one of their stories. Most people would be flattered by that, and if they decline permission, it’s easy enough to just ask someone else.)

NaNoWriMo is still active. The only time I ever tried that, I crashed and burned spectacularly, but it’s been a great experience for a lot of happy writers.

You can keep your eyes open for memes run by other people, particularly those that go over several days. My experience has been that a single day can stretch you a little, but when it runs over time — ten to thirty days — you have to dig a lot deeper. That can be a labor, but it can also be surprisingly fulfilling.

You might think of some kind of event you wish someone would host because you’d like to take part in such a thing … and put together an event like that. (Personally, I’d enjoy a Harmony ficathon.) You’ll run into problems you never anticipated, and it might not work out at all, but you could be surprised in many pleasant ways as well.

Mainly, be ready to give a try to something new, and keep your eyes open for opportunities. They’ll be there … or, if not, you can perhaps create them yourself.

So long, folks. It’s been fun.