Hey so the last two I’ve joined have been a bunch of fun, and the extra exposure for fan-made content is indispensable in the community. Thank you so much for devoting so much of your time to this!
1 - I was writing a non-Jam DG scenario for the first month, so this one was a bit of a rush to get done, but I find 3 months is generous and fair! I think any longer would just lead to me procrastinating, and shorter would be unmanageable with a full-time job.
2 - While I haven’t engaged with the voice calls much because I’m on GMT/BST, but the more the community of writers can communicate and share ideas the more rich this thing becomes IMO.
3 - Time and my own ambition! I had to condense three episodes into 2 just because my habit of going “oo and this too” kinda burned through the 2 months I devoted to it. I think if I had wrapped up my aforementioned other DG scenario sooner this wouldn’t have been an issue!
4 - I think the word count helps keep the aim of the Jam clearly defined. Plus the non-Jam entry I did was 60,000 words and took about 9 months., and I found the main issue with larger word counts is the amount of editing and joining up for continuous narratives increases exponentially the more words there are on the page. Actually typing it all out ends up being a fraction of the time spent doing pass-through edits! Maybe a little looseness, like 10% leeway over, but as there’s no minimum anyway idk if this would effectively just be increasing the count 🤷
5 - To be perfectly honest I think what you’ve made is golden, and the amount of quality scenarios that come out of this that you continually advertise after the fact is so encouraging.
Congratulations on a great Jam everyone who entered, too! I’ve read everyone’s scenarios and they’re just fantastic.