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sun surfer · 06-11-2013, 02:36 AM

Help us choose the categories that the MR Literary Club will keep to alternate for our July 2013-June 2014 cycle.

The poll will be open for seven days.

The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like.

Six months of the next cycle will be devoted to alternating selections from our members, leaving six months of other categories. We have 12 categories from the previous cycle, so we need to pare down by half.

The 12 categories are:

July - Highly Challenging
August - Lottery
September - Contemporary
October - Plays
November - Region
December - Open
January - Poetry
February - Time Period
March - Non-Fiction
April - Obscure
May - Region
June - Short

I'm taking three categories out without a vote - Lottery, Open and a second Region.

I'm also fast-tracking two categories past the vote - Poetry and Highly Challenging. These two will be categories for the next cycle. They are two of our most challenging categories and I'd like them to stay.

That leaves seven categories with fates unknown. Another category - Biographies & Memoirs - has been suggested as well, bringing the total to eight.

These eight have been arranged alphabetically and listed in the poll. With four slots open, half of these eight possibilities will become categories for our next yearly cycle.

We are not necessarily voting on categories to get rid of altogether; we may switch out some categories from year to year. Making it to next year will ensure a category isn't eliminated, but some categories that don't make it may or may not appear the year after.

Since I fast-tracked two categories, I won't vote in the poll, but if there is a tie, I will cast a vote to break it.

06-11-2013, 02:36 AM	#1
sun surfer languorous autodidact ✦ Posts: 4,235 Karma: 44667380 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: smiling with the rising sun Device: onyx boox poke 2 colour, kindle voyage	The MR Literary Club 2013-2014 Categories Vote Help us choose the categories that the MR Literary Club will keep to alternate for our July 2013-June 2014 cycle. The poll will be open for seven days. The vote is multiple choice. You may vote for as many or as few as you like. Six months of the next cycle will be devoted to alternating selections from our members, leaving six months of other categories. We have 12 categories from the previous cycle, so we need to pare down by half. The 12 categories are: July - Highly Challenging August - Lottery September - Contemporary October - Plays November - Region December - Open January - Poetry February - Time Period March - Non-Fiction April - Obscure May - Region June - Short I'm taking three categories out without a vote - Lottery, Open and a second Region. I'm also fast-tracking two categories past the vote - Poetry and Highly Challenging. These two will be categories for the next cycle. They are two of our most challenging categories and I'd like them to stay. That leaves seven categories with fates unknown. Another category - Biographies & Memoirs - has been suggested as well, bringing the total to eight. These eight have been arranged alphabetically and listed in the poll. With four slots open, half of these eight possibilities will become categories for our next yearly cycle. We are not necessarily voting on categories to get rid of altogether; we may switch out some categories from year to year. Making it to next year will ensure a category isn't eliminated, but some categories that don't make it may or may not appear the year after. Since I fast-tracked two categories, I won't vote in the poll, but if there is a tie, I will cast a vote to break it.