Thank you for the thank you! :-) Sometimes, I do feel worn out by it.
While it's nice to have more stories, I'm afraid that I have worried that the proliferation of multiple submissions could intimidate or marginalize writers who have time for "only" one. What if they feel pushed out and overlooked? And I worry that it could also affect readers, who may choose to read fewer total authors but the same number of stories in their available time, so that fewer authors get the pleasure of comments.
>"I do fear that if you move to every other year more inertia might be lost. Hard to say."
Hard to say, for sure!
In the years where we had conspicuously, progressively fewer writers -- from 20 down to 5, as I told TheFruitBat, above -- some people who had dropped away told me that if we changed to playing every second year, they would feel more inclined to participate again. I don't know whether that would have proved out at the time, never mind now that we're back up to 10, but it's something I still wonder about.
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While it's nice to have more stories, I'm afraid that I have worried that the proliferation of multiple submissions could intimidate or marginalize writers who have time for "only" one. What if they feel pushed out and overlooked? And I worry that it could also affect readers, who may choose to read fewer total authors but the same number of stories in their available time, so that fewer authors get the pleasure of comments.
>"I do fear that if you move to every other year more inertia might be lost. Hard to say."
Hard to say, for sure!
In the years where we had conspicuously, progressively fewer writers -- from 20 down to 5, as I told TheFruitBat, above -- some people who had dropped away told me that if we changed to playing every second year, they would feel more inclined to participate again. I don't know whether that would have proved out at the time, never mind now that we're back up to 10, but it's something I still wonder about.