Author spotlight/Themed weeks planning

[geraineon]

Hi all,

I'd love to get some stuff going in August, so I'd like to ask you all if anyone wants to help out with this!

Author's Spotlight

What: A post, or collection of posts (depending on your energy/time) on one specific author and their works. Ideally it will include links to the works, available translations if any, some thoughts of your thoughts on some of their works. Feel free to include your favourite fanworks too or other reviews!
When: An author every month

Please reply to claim an author and month!

List of authors and months (will be updated as we go):

August: geraineon (Jiang Zi Bei)
September: momijizukamori (priest) + requesting for help
October: geraineon (Musuli) [note: if you want to do this, let me know!] We will have a themed novel spotlight instead! (thanks hazevi)
November:
December: douqi (Ning Yuan)
January: hazevi (Yi Zhan Ye Deng)

Themed weeks

What: During the themed weeks, recommend anything related to the theme or create fanworks/request for fanworks related to the theme (e.g., Thousand Autumns, but make it e-sports). Or discuss them however! (We can even do read-alongs, I think?).
When: Every month, for two weeks (tentatively, testing it out the week of August 4th)

This is what I'm having more trouble trying to think about what to do and duration. I have a list of suggested themes and genres compiled through past posts (thank you!). I suppose we can try it first? Any and all comments/suggestions appreciated on how to do this! (if you have examples from other communities/other spaces, that'd be great!)

List of suggested themes/genres

Sci-Fi
Detective stories
Esports/Entertainment industry
Female Protagonists
Quick Transmigration
Infinite Flow/Unlimited Flow
Modern Day
Xianxia
Wuxia
No Romance
Short stories/Novellas
Short Novels (max of 50 chapters)
Really Long Novels (500+ chapters)

Comments

[halfcactus]

Could we link to the corresponding spotlight posts in this post + add them to the community memories, maybe?

[geraineon]

Good idea! I'm gonna make a fresh post to link the spotlight posts and also other resource posts later when I'm back on my laptop.

I always forget that memories exist... Ahaha. I'll do that!