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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sialia" data-source="post: 6011054" data-attributes="member: 1025">All of the above logistics are ok with me. I have just one more request: when you are really ready with all the details worked out, open a fresh new thread for entries (and a few administrative what this is all about and how it works) posts only. Folks can comment with "likes" but other than that, no posting other than the entries, to make it simple for folks to find the candidates and not have to slog through all the discussion. Also, that will signal the "opening" of the time period, so we're not all wondering "as of when". If you want critique/discussion, have a companion thread somewhere else, so voters aren't swayed by the discussion, at least not as much. I like the idea of a 4 post limit--people should put up their very best, not everything in their inventory. But also have the opportunity to try more than one approach.I'd avoid the word "filk" in the title, because I think it limits the competition to "old songs with new lyrics." I really think if we're going to get something wonderful beyond just a chuckle, we're gong to need some genuinely new things no one has ever heard before. It will take our creativity new places. Which is why I like the two categories--filks are fun and easy and many can play. Orgininal songwriting is a lot harder to do well, but has the potential to take us somewhere new we had no idea we wanted to go.In that vein, I suggest something like "Ceramic Bard," building on our own original content franchise, which we've always given freely to ENWorld for the joy of having someplace to share the odd insides of our brains, and the rewarding feedback folks give freely for a job well done.</blockquote>

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