[Teresa Edgerton]

And something has happened, but not quite that.

After consultation, the moderators involved in running the Challenge have decided that it would be best to have a new discussion thread every month, and for the sake of continuity transfer any messages that involve the previous month's entries, extra stories, or the Challenge in general. Off-topic conversations won't be transferred, because we don't want to have to move discussion of the Challenge to the Lounge -- which, in all good conscience, we would have to do if the conversations continue to ramble on too far and too long away from the topic at hand. We hope that the change each month will help to remind all of us -- moderators, too, because we've helped to derail the thread on occasion -- what these threads are supposed to be about.

Of course we want the conversations to remain fun, but ... well, there are limits. It's important to remember that this is the Workshop, not the Lounge.

Accordingly, I've locked this thread and started a new thread for January. The last twenty messages have been moved to the new thread, because they are mostly on topic.