Reversebang litmus test

[pentapus]

Hey, I wanted to gauge the interest in future rounds of treehouse reversebang?

(For anyone unfamiliar, that's where I make you a picture, and you write a story to that picture).

If anyone has suggestions for alterations to the format or for a different sort of exchange/activity/meme they'd like to see, I'd love to hear it. :) E.g. I've felt a few times that I've given a person a picture they find they cannot write to. I've been wondering whether I should 1) show the picture as a really rough sketch/several sketched options before finishing, 2) finish five pictures and let the five participants choose which one they want, and/or 3) make it clear that the picture could be ANYTHING and part of the fun should be getting something whacky and doing whatever the hell you want with it. Like: prepare yourself (or sign up only if that sounds fun?).

Comments

[domarzione]

I'd be game to try it again. I don't much like Option 2 because that's always the most frustrating part of bigbangs -- getting in too late to get the picture you've got the story in your head for. But I'm all for 1 and 3, with the latter being at least constrained by a few parameters (say, which fandoms) and then letting you run riot within those parameters.

[pentapus]

That's my concern with #2 as well. I was thinking that I would either sketch 5-7 ideas (for 5 participants) and let people choose at that stage, or I would let the last person choose between that last picture and an entirely new "wildcard". But that would only be for a very narrow round where everybody is writing one pairing or one fandom. Because I've had one or two times where I had an idea I thought was the COOLEST, but turned out to be not the kind of story the recippient was prepared to write - and I think a different person would have totally wanted to go there.


But it's hard to balance the feeling of the "Surprise ingredient!" of master chef/iron chef fame, and making sure I don't do all the work and find it was the wrong surprise ingredient.

Thanks for your input. It helps me plan and plot. :)