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[Ana, Moderator]

I also really like Snowdrop and Winterberry! I like Hibiscus :) and there’s also Primrose and Jasmine.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I am fine with Primrose and Jasmine!

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Thanks y'all! I'm good with Snowdrop, Winterberry, Primrose, and Jasmine! Those are really pretty names:)

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

What do you think about making a point system for writing prompts and reviews? From this previous challenge, I learned that people sometimes have a hard time writing 150 words, so we could make something like:

Less than 50 words = +2 point
50-100 words = +3 point
101-150 words =+4 points
151-200 words = +5 points

Or something like that. I also talked with Mackenzie earlier about bumping book prompts up to 7 points and activity prompts to 3 points, so people can earn more points when they log points:)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine that’s fine! We can go with those teams names then. And I really feel like book prompts should unlimited because if we are limited to 3 book prompts then people are going to run out of prompts….

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

OK, sounds good! I'm going to keep the limitation rule on activity prompts, though.

[Ana, Moderator]

I also like the different points for how many words in the review and writing prompts. And I also agree with V that the book prompts should be unlimited because it’s kind of hard to keep track of how many prompts everyone has used.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I’m just saying the book prompts should be unlimited because there are several books out there that you need to use that prompt and if you read it and you have no prompts to use then you’re not making any points off that and that’s my opinion that’s a waste of time if I’m not getting points For my team.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I agree and I’m totally fine with the points of the review. I think that looks good and it looks great but the prompts I don’t think it’s fair writing prompts not normally everybody takes the time to write out their answer of who is their favorite character and why you know not a lot of people take the time to do that.

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Sounds good! True, writing prompts are optional- do you mean you want to add more writing prompts? :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I mean I am not gonna lie this challenge yes I knew books prompts were limited but I didn’t even check to see people used more than 3 times just because that makes it more time consuming and keeping track of what prompts everyone uses….

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Yeah, me neither! I didn't expect anyone to, it was just so that people wouldn't be using "RAB with a blue cover" every single time, since that prompt is a lot easier than "RAB where it snows" (I don't even remember if that's a book prompt XD).

[Ana, Moderator]

I didn’t keep track either of how many times people were using the prompts.

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

No problem, I didn't either ;)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

It’s totally up to you guys on book prompts limited but I just find it really hard to do.

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Oh yeah, sorry I didn't say this before- I already changed that rule in the Google doc ;)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I will create the new reading challenge today but Catherine or Ana do you want to place people on teams?

[Ana, Moderator]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "I will create the new reading challenge today but Catherine or Ana do you want to place people on teams?"

Sure! I can do it :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Just made the new post!

[Ana, Moderator]

Just saw it! Hey did we create the book prompts? And do I create the team placing post now?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Yes I am doing book prompts now!

[Ana, Moderator]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "Yes I am doing book prompts now!"

Oh ok great :)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Should be posted now!

[Mackenzie :), Moderator]

Sorry for being inactive, it's been a constant rush with school and work right now! I'm will to help with whatever you all need now if you would like

[Mackenzie :), Moderator]

I also figured out how to turn on my notifications with the new phone! So I should be more active

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Mackenzie :) wrote: "I also figured out how to turn on my notifications with the new phone! So I should be more active"

We are glad to have you back and we understand that life comes first!

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Hey, thank you, all of you! Congrats on the new phone, Mackenzie:) I think I am going to take a hiatus from GR for Lent, which means I won't be able to participate in this great challenge :(

V, I saw your sign up post for the Winter Blooms Challenge and Kay-Mika's post, and I just had a few suggestions if you'd be open to them. I know I'm not running the challenge, so if you decide not to take my suggestions I get it:)

1. I agree with Kay-Mika that all of the months should be changed to February and March, since that's when the challenge takes place.

2. It would be great if we could use the points system for the reviews/writing prompts that we made earlier, instead of saying that all reviews/writing prompts have to be 150+ words each.

3. It would be nice to give credit to Emi-Jo for coming up with the challenge and team names for the challenge at the end.

4. I talked with Mackenzie sometime in late December or earlier January, and we agreed that we should increase the number of points earned for book and activity prompts. Book prompts=7 points, writing prompts=3 points, writing prompts are based on how much you write

5. As you know, I like making images for the challenge, and I made one for this one a little while back. It would be cool if we could include it in the signups thread. Here it is:



6. I also agree that it would be nice to switch up the book/activity prompts a bit, so they're not the exact same as the challenge (and therefore not just a continuation of the previous challenge). If you give me a couple of days I can think of a few, and we could always ask the group for suggestions as well.

If you look at the Google doc I posted the link to earlier (or here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X...), you can copy and paste the template, so that all of the HTML formatting will show up. I'm not done yet (I'll add some prompts and finalize some things. However, if you'd like to keep it all the same please let me know, because I wouldn't want to change stuff and then not have the changes be used ;)

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about what I said, all of you! :D

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I can add those changes! And we will make sure the group runs smooth while you’re gone.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine I made those changes can you take a look at that and let me know.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "Hey, thank you, all of you! Congrats on the new phone, Mackenzie:) I think I am going to take a hiatus from GR for Lent, which means I won't be able to participate in this great challenge :(

V, I ..."

I feel like prompts shouldn't change much. I mean I added a few of them but what much more prompts can we add? Like are we changing book prompts for every challenge? That's alot of work and we are going to run out of ideas quickly. I personally don't see the issues with book prompts being the same since we can only use them 3 times?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I will also say Catherine... since you are not able to join this challenge do you want me to keep points for 2 teams which i don't mind doing... or do you want to make a trivia question or something and let another team member do that... How do we want to go about this....

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Thank you so much! As for prompts, yes, I think the idea is to have different prompts for each challenge, just so there can be a variety of them. In my head, prompts can differ based on content (themes, characters, genre, etc.), release date (year, month, etc.), and cover (title, author, general appearance of the cover). Classifying book prompts into those three categories in my head makes it a lot easier to come up with prompts, just personally:) Activity prompts are a lot easier to come up with. Prompts in general are definitely not going to be drastically different for each challenge, but they can be somewhat different.

I'm working on the template now; that way after I'm done you could just copy and paste it into the signup thread, instead of having to make a bunch of different changes? That might be easier:)

Regarding the 4th team, yes it would be great if you could keep points for both teams! I know that could be a lot, though, so if we want to find a person from the group to be captain, that would be fine. With the new way of keeping track of points, it should be fairly easy to update points on the scoreboard, because the captain doesn't have to keep track of every single point (so we don't have to worry about how active the person's going to be).

As far as choosing a captain would go, I know (just off the top of my head) that Aoife has been a great team captain before. We could ask her specifically if she's willing to be captain, or we could just ask the group *shrugs*

I think either way would work out fine. (Also, I know I'm saying a lot; if anything I'm saying is confusing, lmk!)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "Thank you so much! As for prompts, yes, I think the idea is to have different prompts for each challenge, just so there can be a variety of them. In my head, prompts can differ based on content (th..."

No i totally understand and I have no issues with being the member of two teams. I will just not log books since that wouldn't be fair. I will keep logs for both teams. And I get if the theme is different and book prompts need to change I am fine with that but I added a few book prompts to this one like color of books and stuff but I changed the dates and changed the points. Added the point system for the writing prompts!

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Cool, sounds great! Yes, I saw, thank you! I'm done with the template now; it's basically the same as your post, but I rearranged a couple of things, added the challenge photo, and added/changed some book/activity prompts.

It's all in here (you could just copy and paste) with the HTML formatting so that stuff can be bolded, italicized, underlined, etc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X...

If we think of more book prompts between now and the start of the challenge, we could add those too later!

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I dont know if it made it easier for you guys but I also thinks we should stick with how when you log books you put the team total at the bottom. Made it so much easier that way.. can we keep that rule?

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "Cool, sounds great! Yes, I saw, thank you! I'm done with the template now; it's basically the same as your post, but I rearranged a couple of things, added the challenge photo, and added/changed so..."

When will you start your break then?

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "I dont know if it made it easier for you guys but I also thinks we should stick with how when you log books you put the team total at the bottom. Made it so much easier that way.. can we keep that ..."

Yup, of course, that's why I added that rule. When making team threads, it would be great if they could all look something like this:

"~ Members ~

~ Total points ~

~ How to log books ~
Book title:
# of pages:
Any prompts done:
Review/buddy read/BOTM?

Total points:
Team total:

~ Example ~
Book title: Eragon
# of pages: 509 (+5)
Prompts:
- RAB with a blue cover (+7)
- Give a loved one some flowers (+3)

Total points: 10
Team total: 10

Please include the team total- this makes it a lot easier to update points! Thank you so much:)"

[Ana, Moderator]

Yeehawwlovesbooks wrote: "I dont know if it made it easier for you guys but I also thinks we should stick with how when you log books you put the team total at the bottom. Made it so much easier that way.. can we keep that ..."

Yes! That made things so much easier!

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Lent's from February 14th-March 28th, so I'll be around for the end of the Snow Falling Winter Sweets Challenge. I won't be totally absent from GR (I think I might stay in a Bible Study group because I'm reading Revelation with them in February), so if anything urgent comes up, just message me:)

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "Lent's from February 14th-March 28th, so I'll be around for the end of the Snow Falling Winter Sweets Challenge. I won't be totally absent from GR (I think I might stay in a Bible Study group becau..."

Okay if it's serious and we can't figure it out we will shoot you a message.

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I have also added those prompts to the challenge.

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Thanks! Also, to include the hyperlinks to GR lists so that people can easily find books that match the prompts and add HTML formatting, could you copy and paste the doc that I sent into the signup post? It's basically the same as yours with just the hyperlinks and HTML formatting. If you don't want to or if you want to change something in the Google doc, please let me know!

[Ana, Moderator]

Ok I’ve created the Snowdrop team chat and I used the template that you made Catherine so that the links can be used too, thank you so much for doing the template :)

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Yay, thanks Ana! I think there are some differences between V's signup post and the template I made. The first difference is the time- the template says Sunday, February 18th to Friday, March 22nd, and V's says February 16th-March 29th, I believe. Which date do we want to go with?

Second difference is that in the template I took out some activity and book prompts from the last challenge, so that this challenge focuses more on the transition from winter to spring & Valentine's day themes (not just with one's significant other) then just winter. Which version do we want to go with?

(Again Imk if anything I said was confusing:))

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Also I realized I forgot to embed the "RAB w/ a blue cover" book prompt, so I just changed that. There's not really a difference between having the HTML formatting there or not, just to let y'all know.

Going to go watch the Superbowl now! :D

[Yeehawwlovesbooks, Lead Moderator]

I thought I changed everything but apparently not. I was just making that date that way if we have any inactive people we have time to let those people be active does that make sense?

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

(oops, meant to say "Super Bowl" LOL)

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

Yes, do you mean to give people time to join the challenge? If so, February 18th might be the better start date. However, I don't think it makes much of a difference, since signups don't close the day the challenge starts. Just wanted to make sure all the dates match:)

[Ana, Moderator]

Catherine wrote: "Yay, thanks Ana! I think there are some differences between V's signup post and the template I made. The first difference is the time- the template says Sunday, February 18th to Friday, March 22nd,..."

So what if maybe the challenge starts February 18 and end on March 24? And the winner be announced March 25?

What team are you cheering for in the Super Bowl Catherine? I’m also going to watch and since I live in Kansas the Chief are home team so I’m cheering for them!

[Catherine (semi active), Co-Founder (inactive)]

That sounds good to me! V?

The 49ers, but I'm mostly just watching for the commercials and the food 😆 I'm not a huge fan of football (especially the outfits 😂), but I'm up for anything that involves food 😁