/lit/ - Literature

>>16934814
Yeah that’s exactly my fear and i think you are ultimately right. It might come down to a question of marketing in the future, e.g. in trying to reach outside of /lit; but then the populations become fairly self-selecting and i am not sure its the route that would be best for the project as a whole. We shall see, though; finding tactics that might work in todays Instagram environment seems to require a willingness to “meet people halfway” and offer some materialistic stuff they respond to.
Thank you for your feedback, btw; very helpful.

>>16934819
I think that’s a great idea—having certain dedicated competitions around coordinating events, like holidays, would make sense. Will definitely develop along those lines—thanks for the idea!

>>16934861
A couple of anons specifically requested that, if they don’t win, if i could still edit/provide feedback on their essay and maybe help improve their overall writing. I’ve taught freshman writing seminars before and college writing more generally, so i’m not opposed to that—that kinda feedback is just gonna be a little bit more time on my end.
Turned out to be 37 submissions in total, 1 lingering one that i still considered in ultimate. What’s crazy is that going into the final night was 17, and I wasn’t expecting much if any last minute interest. Turns out /lit is a procrastinating bunch: roughly 20 submissions came in before i woke up on December 1st. I will say that a couple of them lacked virtually any legibility—but for the most part they were all well-written, well-thought through pieces. I was really, really surprised and really, really impressed.

>>16681252