And we're off!

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

‘Sup BOBbers.

April is upon us. Are you ready? We’re betting yes, and we’re looking forward to seeing how you all do with our first weekly target. Which, for the record, is:

20 points

However you get them is up to you. You’ve all got the points chart in your team posts and you’ve got a week to get there. We have every faith you will. Please start counting points/tracking your progress as of 12:01 a.m. April 1 in your time zone, thanks. ♥

We’ll also be holding two Bonus days this week:

Wednesday, April 4 and Saturday, April 7

Can’t make those? No worries. There’s no penalty for missing these, and we’ll be running two each week throughout the month, so you’ll have plenty of other chances to make use of them.

There will also be a bonus for your team if everyone participating this week checks in by Monday, April 9, noon EST. Easiest way to avoid missing that deadline, based on previous experience? Check in with your total Sunday night before you go to bed. Not going to be around this weekend? Check in early or let someone on your team know you’ll be offline. For the sake of this bonus, anyone on hiatus will be excluded from the count.

If at least half your team checks in on time, your team will be awarded 1 point above your averaged total. If everyone on your team checks in on time, your team will earn a 2 point bonus.


How to BOB
You do the thing(s) you need to do to get your April project(s) done. Write, edit, draw, colour, record, research, anything that moves you forward towards your goal. On Sunday, find your team’s check-in post and report your progress so we can flail encouragement and award you points.

Don’t have a team? Pick one and jump right in.

On Tuesdays, we’ll post points stats and team rankings, and issue new weekly targets, which are for motivation only and are completely optional, so no worries.

The details and the FAQs are here.


Should LJ fail: You can find mirror posts to report your check-ins on Dreamwidth here and InsaneJournal here.

As always, if you have any questions or concerns (or you want to report a hiatus in advance), let us know in comments.

Good luck, everyone!

~ curiouslyfic and kinky_kneazle

Comments

[naturegirlrocks.livejournal.com]

Stupid question: So we shall begin counting points from today on? Or is it tomorrow (1st)?

[singlemomsummer.livejournal.com]

Agreed, since it's still the 31st here in the states.

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Still pre-dawn on the 31st here in Canada, too, but it's evening in Australia. We're posting a bit early so everyone has a chance to see the weekly targets and bonus schedule before we start. Sorry for the confusion, but please start counting points as of April 1 in your time zone.

Thanks. ♥

[singlemomsummer.livejournal.com]

Awesome,thanks :) (hehehe I guess I'll put off my beta for one more day if the author's cool with it, lol)

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Start counting from April 1 in your time zone. The post is up a bit early so Australians participating would see it before April started for them.

[tryslora]

A question about hiatus and stuff like that. I'm going on a trip, and while I'll definitely have my laptop with me and HOPE to get some writing/editing/research time in there since OMG I have SO MUCH to do... can we declare hiatus if we suddenly figure out that this isn't happening? I keep hoping that the phrase "go away and leave me alone for an hour" will work each day. As long as it's not raining and they can actually leave the camper, that is... *fingers crossed*

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Yep. Declare it anytime if RL's getting in your way. Not ideal but things happen. Have fun on your trip, bb! All the words when you get back, right? *\o/*

[tryslora]

So far I'm hoping I still get to write on my trip. The hard part is going to be convincing everyone else to give me time alone in the trailer! *fingers crossed*

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

Oh, BOB. I'm excited.

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Same! Looking forward to seeing you push through Conscience this month. :)

[sordid-humors.livejournal.com]

About 26k in March. Hoping to break 30k for April. The sooner this is done and out of my hair, the better.

[tryslora]

A question about hiatus and stuff like that. I'm going on a trip, and while I'll definitely have my laptop with me and HOPE to get some writing/editing/research time in there since OMG I have SO MUCH to do... can we declare hiatus if we suddenly figure out that this isn't happening? I keep hoping that the phrase "go away and leave me alone for an hour" will work each day. As long as it's not raining and they can actually leave the camper, that is... *fingers crossed*

[tryslora]

The time/points for beta work feels odd (in other words, I feel like I'm getting way too many points for the critique I just finished for someone)... I just wanted to let you know, but then I do my most brutal critique work fairly rapidly?

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

After much deliberation: Yep. If you mean by "critique" what I think you do, I can see how the numbers would come back funny. No way to adjust the beta points value without potentially reducing/removing the incentive for other marathoners to get their betaing done, so the best we've got here is to call it a question of self-reporting.

You know how much work you put in, you have a rough idea of what sort of incentive it takes to get you to do that thing, and you're in the best position to figure out what sort of points value it should have. Personally, assuming your crits are anything like mine, I'd be inclined to call it an hour of Other for every chapter I critted, with possible adjustments of +1 or so if it was a really thorough crit (i.e. extensive notes on every other page, unusually long or difficult chapter, etc).

Basically, we're trusting you to be fair in your reporting. If the points are coming up skewing high, adjusting them so they're reflective of time/effort/incentive required is cool.

Hope that helped.

[tryslora]

For me, critique and beta are the same thing, just done for different audiences. I do SPAG and plot picks and all the usual for my critiques. I just sometimes whip through them fairly quickly (I'm required to do one a week for my online group, whether I actually like the fiction I'm reading or not). But yeah, it went by so fast (a couple of hours work) that it didn't feel like it jibed with the length of the piece I was working on (12k+). So I shall adjust. I'm keeping my BOB spreadsheet of what I did, not just the points, so I can easily report in at the end of the week, and it'll be quick to fix.

I think it's just gotten to the point where I've gotten used to spending only an hour or two on beta work for up to 15k because I do it so often. And I'm lucky enough to read very quickly.

[curiouslyfic.livejournal.com]

Awesome, sounds like a plan.

[singlemomsummer.livejournal.com]

I've been having the same crisis of conscience so I'm going to cut my own points, maybe a point per 1k? and the finishing. Some of my fics take longer than others, but I can still do 14k in less than a day so for the first few days I did 30k.