The Future of Sherlock60

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We're heading towards the end of Round 4 and thesmallhobbit and I thought it might be a good idea to put up a discussion post about sherlock60's future. We definitely want it to have a future but we also think it’s time to give it a revamp.

So, I’m going to list some points here and whether you’re already been posting, you’ve just been reading along or you’ve been considering joining in, if you’re interested in what’s going to be happening in the comm after we come to the end of this round, we’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions.


1. Canon Discussion Post: I have been involved in some very interesting discussions over the years but it has to be said this post gets the least attention out of the various comm activities, and a lot of discussions about the week’s story often happen naturally under the 60s and on the poetry page anyway.

So, thesmallhobbit has come up with an excellent suggestion to rejig the discussion post. Instead of discussing the week’s story directly we could pick a theme connected to the story. For example, with BLUE we could look at the Victorian Christmas, for SPEC we could look at exotic animals in canon, for SOLI we could look at the craze for bicycles, and so on.

How do you feel about this? Is there something else you’d like to do instead?


2. Poetry Page: We both want to keep Mrs. Hudson’s poetry page. It’s turned out to be quite popular and a lot of fun. But even though I have consulted with Mrs. Hudson (^^”), I must admit I haven’t actually come up with any thoughts regarding revamping it.

Is there anything you’d like changed or added? Anything in particular you’d like to try regarding poetry?


3. Reading Schedule: So far we’ve had R1: alphabetical order, R2: Baring-Gould chronological order, R3: the ones thesmallhobbit needed to do, the ones scfrankles needed to do, followed by the ones scfrankles had already done (er, this is probably not one to repeat...), R4: published order.

Is there a particular order you’d like to go in for Round 5—either a new order or repeating one we’ve had before?


4. Any other thoughts and suggestions?



As well as discussing sherlock60, there’s something else we’d like to talk about.

thesmallhobbit and I are planning on setting up a sister comm, for all forms of microfiction. Or rather a little brother comm: it’s going to be called Holmes Minor (holmes_minor), the subtitle being: a playground for little fics and poetry.

This comm would still be dedicated to the ACD Sherlock Holmes ‘verse but we wouldn’t be concentrating on individual ACD stories—we’d just be writing in the ACD Holmes ‘verse in general. And all kinds of microfiction would be welcome, not just 60s. Forms like 6 word stories, 55s, drabbles, double drabbles and 221Bs. Or just anything that had a word count up to 500 words. And as it says in the subtitle, poetry would be welcome too. Our initial idea is that we might have monthly prompts.

Would you be interested in joining us in this new comm?