Blogocentric Formulations

The Eleventh and Twelfth Days of Christmas

Twelve Days of Christmas


                   

PROMPT: For the glory of the number eleven, send notebook posts (or comments to notebook posts) to eleven different WdC members.

Linked 'Note' no longer available. - I posted on a new member's notebook post, welcomed her to the site, and offered some links and personal help if she ever has any questions about Writing.Com.

"Note: I made this awesome veggie chili last night. It st..." - I had to comment on this one because the recipe sounds delicious!

Note # - Great advice about writers block and a strategy for overcoming it.

"Note: Writing again! Sending oxooxo to all here,that I k..." - Sent some encouraging words to someone who's writing again.

Note # - Had a fantastic idea about putting Quills-eligible items in your highlighted items so people can quickly peruse your port, check out your eligible items, and nominate if they're so inclined. Fantastic idea, goldenautumn!

Note # - Sent some words of encouragement to an eleven-year-old attempting to write her first book.

"Note: Entered a book reading challenge... 104 books be..." - A goal of reading 104 books in a calendar year pretty much puts my goal of a book a week to shame.

Note # - Wanted to have a little fun with a clever post about New Years' related gym attendance.

"Note: Heading to the chocolate exhibit at the Academy of..." - She had me at "chocolate exhibit."

"Note: I have some great stories I might write in this ne..." - Writing encouragement for the new year.

Note # - Ah, email storage capacity limits... my old nemesis...

                   

PROMPT: To finish out the challenge, respect the number twelve by combining anything you've already done for this challenge for twelve new WdC members. They can be all the same or different or any combination (e.g., you can do 12 more newsfeed posts, or 6 newsfeed/4 cNotes/2 reviews or any other combination you want that adds up to twelve.)

Honestly, this challenge was a lot harder than I intended it to be. Not being able to repeat any users (yeah, I think we've all got a few double-ups by accident, which is fine) meant that there would be 78 unique recipients of each person's holiday cheer during this activity. On the face of things, that doesn't seem like that many... but since I went through this challenge along with everyone else, I quickly gained an appreciation for the strategy involved in who you pick when. Finding interesting newsfeed posts - or finding people to fan - can be pretty darn challenging when you've already used up a ton of people with the forum posts, cNotes, review, and blog comments!

I decided to keep things simple on this last day; it's the first day back at work and while I'd love to have been able to do at least one from each of the eleven previous days, I'm running a little short on time and doubt I'll be able to finish up before the deadline tomorrow afternoon WdC time, so I complete this activity with the following:

I fanned pinkbarbie, Osirantinous , 💙 Carly-wrimo 2024 , and goldenautumn. Honestly, the ten we did a few days ago wasn't nearly enough so I felt like I should spend at least some of these extra challenges fanning some more people that I should have been following a long time ago. I know a couple of these are repeats from earlier in the challenge, but they definitely deserve to be the exception to the rule!

I also nominated the following items for Quills:

         BEST CONTEST: "The Weekly Quickie Contest" 
         BEST CONTEST: " Magic Words Contest " 
         BEST MULTIPLE-PERSON ACTIVITY: "Merit Badge Projects" 
         BEST MULTIPLE-PERSON ACTIVITY: "Invalid Item" 

And, to wrap things up, I sent out four surprise "just because" merit badges to some WdC members. I had to put this challenge near the very beginning of the Twelve Days in order to make it cost-effective for everyone who wanted to participate, but I had always wanted to give out more than just the two that were required. And now is my chance! Here's the last four to complete my twelve additional holiday cheer efforts for the day:

                             

I sincerely hope everybody enjoyed the challenge; I had a blast and it was fun to be reminded about some of the features of the site that I think a lot of us overlook on a day-by-day basis. I know I'm going to try to be better about fanning people and good items, sending cNotes, and sharing some good cheer around the site all year round instead of just these twelve days of the year.

Thanks to everyone who participated!