Any writers there ?

[BENETNATH]

Hi,

 

i'm occasionally crawling in the forum, but i just registered to have an opinion about my morning's shower idea

 

I, as a phD, read a lot of papers and write also a lot of lines, always focused on mine scientific interest.

Sadly, i lack spare time to write down other things, even if it's something i would really enjoy.

Some years ago, i spent some time on writing and produced 2-3 novels ; what a great satisfaction

 

So basically, my idea would be a novel contest, for scientist, based on published results.

One paper would be selected for a contest, and each applicant would have a predefined time to submit a novel or short text.

 

After that, other members could tell their favorite, and one novel would be selected as a best-in-class.

 

Nothing to win, except some pleasure.

 

What do you think ?

 

I'm thinking of putting that as a forum, allowing some user interactions too.. ?

 

[EDIT: typos]

Edited June 9, 2014 by BENETNATH

[Ophiolite]

I definitely think you need to restrict this to a short story. A novel will typically take one year to write. Is anyone ready to devote a year just for the possibility of gaining "some pleasure".

 

Also, I do not understand what you mean by "So basically, my idea would be a novel contest, for scientist, based on published results."

 

Do you mean the subject of the writing should be a published paper? And published by whom? You need to clarify this part of your proposal. (Also, it would be helpful if you could use spell checker for your next post.)

[BENETNATH]

Indeed, short story would be the best option, to avoid too long delays.

And for the subject, each contest would be based on a published scientific paper,

A good possibility would be suggestion of papers by members.

 

sounds clearer ?

[Ophiolite]

OK, thank you. And the idea of basing it on a scientific paper is to give the whole project a science flavour?

[BENETNATH]

not only flavour, centered idea.

i mean, scientist are basically writers, but they are used to write with a really strict and specific language, wording..

I wanna try to provide a "sandbox" place for scientist to have fun writing, still on science, but with more fictions

[Ophiolite]

I like the idea, but the lack of other response suggests it may not attract others. May I suggest you initiate the process with the following:

1. Specify the paper on which the first story is to be based.

2. Suggest a maximum story length.

3. Specify a time limit.

4. Request members post an interest in participating.

[BENETNATH]

IThat's basically what i've done on a draft board.

 

Can you take a quick look there : LINK REMOVED

 

thanks Ophiolite

Edited June 10, 2014 by BENETNATH

[Ophiolite]

I do not believe the Moderator Team will be very happy about you directing traffic away from this site. That defeats the purpose. If you wish to pursue this with the members here then the "event" needs to take place here.

[BENETNATH]

you're right, it was not the purpose, just wanted your opinion.

I just don't see how it can be done in scienceforum easily.. I'll think about that,