Day 6

In your own space, create your own challenge. What’s something you want to see more people doing in fandom? Is there something you’ve tried that you think other people would enjoy if they gave it a go? Dare your friends to try it out, and have fun with it. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Well, as I talked about the importance of reviewing yesterday, I won’t make that as a challenge. Instead I challenge you to rec more! There is a lot of fanfic out there and it can be difficult to find something you like, especially in very large fandoms. It’s impossible to read everything and I’m sure I’m not the only one who set up certain parameters for what to read. Special characters or pairings, themes one likes best, authors one allready know writes well. But sometimes it would be nice to read something outside the box and here I find recs invaluable. I’ve read so many great fics that has been recommended to me that I would never have read otherwise.

I’m sure there will be a Snowflake challenge about reccing, but I’d like to challenge you to rec more in general. As a recurring feature or occasional rec dump. Or once in a blue moon when you have read something spectacular. Or volunteer to do a stint at some reccing community.

And you will also make an author happy- it’s very flattering to have a story other people think is good enough to rec!

Here is my list of recs.