User blog comment:Webly/Wiki Read-A-Thon/@comment-1874924-20130414205144

I'd like to do this, but I doubt that I'd be able to keep up. Most weeks have 40-70K words (80-175 pages equivalent) of assigned reading, and I'm a very slow reader.

A few observations on story selection:


 * TDI:FYE and TD Alpharama are both over 170K words--far longer than any other story on any of the lists--so they should probably cover three weeks each instead of two.
 * 1) Having two-part stories assignments in the backup listings is problematic. What if someone has to read Part 2 of Deception island, for example, when they didn't have to read Part 1? You could be setting people up for what amounts to a double-length reading assignments.
 * 2) The lists of backup assignments are dominated by stories whose authors are no longer active here, if they're still present at all. Surely you could replace one of those with TD Explosion, for example, per the thread below. How many other worthy stories by active users didn't make the "A" list and now stand to get frozen out completely in favor of stuff written by people who aren't even here anymore?
 * 3) If you want to use one of my stories on the backup lists, I'd frankly prefer that you use Courtney and the Violin of Despair rather than Legacy, unless you think that CatVoD is too short. (It's only 5500 words, although it does have 8 chapters.) Although CaVoD is (or at least once was) popular enough to win Featured Story, it's always lived in the shadow of my greater works, whereas Legacy has always gotten plenty of love.