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Personally, I'd like to see separate prose and poetry challenges, perhaps offset by two weeks. It would accomplish three things: first, it would create more activity on the site since there would be something new to look forward to every two weeks; second, it would give people that only do one form or the the other a specific peer group to participate with (and therefore be perhaps just a bit less daunting to enter); and third, it would allow prose to be compared to prose and poetry to poetry. I appreciate both forms, but judging them side by side in a challenge is like comparing apples to oranges. (I like both apples and oranges too, by the way.) I'd love to see meaningful feedback. I'd much rather get a comment or two on what people liked or disliked about something I wrote than a vote. I know giving feedback is both difficult and time consuming to do, but I thought all the entries were great, but I had to pick one, so I vote for for #5 does not help anyone improve. Perhaps we should start voting on the best feedback as well as the best entry perhaps even canonize those that do it? And yes, I'm the pot calling the kettle black. I'd like to see some specific themes. Not many, since that would become tedious rather quickly, but a few. Specifically, I think an annual Halloween ghost story challenge would be nice. I also greatly enjoyed Crescent's old Bad Writing Challenge those entries were a hoot (see link). I'd like to see it made into an annual event. jon

 
~jon
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