Hi all! I've been trying to brainstorm on some ideas to help get members more active in our forum, as well as give the members that are active some extra fun and new challenges this summer. I've got a few ideas, and while some may take a while to pull off, I'm going to see what I can do. I did want to share my ideas with everyone and get feedback on which of them you'd all like to see, as well as find out what ideas you all have also. :) --We have the Writers forum challenge in the contests every month, but I'd like to add some smaller type challenges directly into the forum from time to time. These would be for all to participate if they wanted too. There would be no winners, just some feedback from each other. I think this would help all of us in many ways, and it can be a lot of fun too. --I'd also like to have a joint challenge or something with one of the other galleries. Something like this was mentioned in a previous thread, and I think it's a great idea. If we could figure out to organize a challenge either joint with one other forum (i.e. poser or 2d) or just with all forums who wanted to participate, to have them illustrate our writing in some way. I'm still trying to figure out a way to do this where it would work well for everyone. So, I'll talk to some of the contest managers as well as the Mod and Admin over the contest area to see if something like this would be a possibility. --Once upon a time there was an in tandem story being written by people in the forum. I never was able to participate in the writing of it, but reading it was a blast. I'm not sure what ever happened to it, or if it was just finished or people lost interest, but, if others wanted we could start up another one of those. Lastly, I just wanted to apologize for being a bit absent lately. I've had a lot of things going on, and while I have been here and have been checking in, I've not been posting much. I am going to try to be better about that. I am always open to suggestions and ideas, so please feel free to drop me an PM or post in the forum. Midrael or I are usually always around somewhere, so we should be able to get back to you fairly quickly. Thanks a bunch everyone! You all are great! Diana Writers Mod.