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Sounds cool. I think motivation can be the biggest problem for a lot of creative types (myself included) and having a constant list of low-stakes creative challenges could get the juices flowing.

Not that I'm necessarily going to go first, but what's the first task?

EDIT: Nice cover, btw! Musical typing is really weird so if you were playing that live with no experience that's pretty impressive.

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As I said, I think it'd be best if everybody makes some suggestions and we take a vote on it. But if nobody comes up with any, I'll make a list of sorts. I also like the idea that this might introduce people into something which they've never tried before and could possibly be quite good at.

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Hmm, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of the everyone do the same thing type thing, I think it could fun if it's more of like a little round table thing of people throwing ideas at each other. And if someone likes an idea they'll do it, and if they don't then they won't. Also people could challenge someone to something specific. (Probably would be wise to have some sort of opt in option for that though)

So yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the competition style. But that's just me.

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That could also work, there's nothing stopping us from doing a mix of both.

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I didn't really mean for it to be competitve, I just thought having one task would be more 'motivational' so to speak as it would be a bit more focused. If it was simply a list of suggestions, it's be easier for people to procrastinate - I like the idea of people checking every week to see what the task is. I'm open to anything though, I guess we can try a few different things - after all, it's all about having fun really. Maybe instead of just one task, there's a choice of say three different ones?

Perhaps the first task could be to pitch how the hell we should do this thing? tongue

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Damn, I thought I was being original!

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Well, let's fuckin' do it, then, shall we?

Call 'em "Create This Week:" 's, and give everyone a prompt, and we'll all throw something together. Shitty, awesome, whatever. Just somethin.' How many times a week do you have nothing to do for a minute and could stand to doodle something or take a picture? Nobody's on the hook for a masterpiece, it just keeps the blood flowin.'

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Seeing as how the Olympics opening ceremony is happening right now, how about we go for an Olympics theme?

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I like this.

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I like this idea a lot, since we'd all be working with different materials/limitations. I'll participate for sure.

"The Doctor is Submarining through our brains." --Teague

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Weekly Creations™? I'm game.

But I also like the idea of song covering. We could have a weekly song, and let people that want to cover it cover it. Of course they could wind up collaborating, if they want to.
Then there should also obviously be the other choices, like short films, drawing pictures etc. Don't make it a compo, make it fun smile

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I fucking love you Zarban.

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I like where this is going.

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That's on an iPad? Nice! What app are you using?

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I would partake, but I'm stoked for ideas related to the Olympics.

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It doesn't have to be directly related, more just like that's what sparks the initial idea. For instance, the Olympics may make you think of general competition and you could write a short story about a guy striving to be the best Connect 4 player in the world.

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