Follow Friday 6-7-21

[ysabetwordsmith]

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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Re: Yay!

[soc_puppet]

Phew! Okay, posted to all of the general above, and posting templates saved for next year. (Probably the thing that'll help most is that I saved the tags I used by community...) I may do some digging around for other communities to post to as appropriate, but definitely no more advert posting tonight! My advert-writing brain is tuckered out 😴

Oh, for roundups I'm talking about fill roundups when themes close at Sot69. Like, "Theme X is now closed! [Here are the things that people created for it!/There were no creations for this theme, but Amnesty is always an option!] Remember, Theme Z opened this week, and Theme Y is open until next week!" So the tracking down of the various links I need to include (Themes X, Y, and Z) take some time, even if I can pre-load a lot of it, and then there's also tracking down and properly crediting anything that gets posted for a theme. It's not difficult work, it's just kind of A Lot for my poor, poor ADHD-riddled brain. I'll have to see if I can organize things better this year.

On the plus side, I don't necessarily have to write a whole lot of new theme essays! I may have to tweak some of the old ones a bit for references to other themes/theme order, but other than that, I think there's only five new themes? That's fewer than half I need to write whole new essays for this year. I mean, I love writing those mini essays, but they are also Work 😜 Oof, the fest opens with two new mini-essays right out of the gate...!

Re: Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Phew! Okay, posted to all of the general above, and posting templates saved for next year.<<

Go you!

Also, save the date you posted those. Then next year, just go back to the old post, copy-paste into a new window, and edit if necessary. I do that to reuse posts that I only make once every 3-4 months.

>>I'll have to see if I can organize things better this year.<<

If possible, save entries as they get posted with their relevant information. It's how I keep track of stuff to recommend for snowflake_challenge. Also, you can just copy-paste the 69 list of entries as your Snowflake recs come January.

Re: Yay!

[soc_puppet]

Oh yeah, I literally just copy-pasted the entry code into a comment on a sticky private post, listed with the community name (user name style) and relevant community tags. Copy-pasting should be a cinch, if a bit tedious 😂 I'll have to go back through and collect previous entries at some point, but I've got some time before I need to get to that 😜