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Challenge Journal

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Swap Coordinator:TheFallenAngel (contact)
Swap categories:
Number of people in swap:7
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Last day to signup/drop:January 4, 2010
Date items must be sent by:May 15, 2010
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

AKA, The swap formerly known as The Dare Journal, but due to SoS members having diction issues with the word "dare", has now been renamed to better reflect what it is trying to accomplish (which is bettering ourselves and sharing the experience so that we might also inspire others) and with this new name will hopefully entice others to join. Oh, and it is still a journal swap.

For this swap:

  • you will undertake at least twenty challenges of your choice, four of which must be harder or more involved according to your perception. It would be helpful if you noted what level of difficulty each challenge is for you.
  • you will write as much about each experience as you can. This may mean that you will only write a paragraph, or it may mean that you will write three pages. You can definitely supplement your entries with artwork if that is how you can best convey how your challenge went!
  • you will include something extra with each entry (such as a brochure, a ticket stub, a picture, a recipe, etc.) in order to help draw your partner in to your experience. A few of these items must be "larger" things that you must purchase or make.
  • you will spend a minimum of $15 and a maximum of $20 (not including the price of the journal or shipping).

Please remember that this swap is very fluid:

  • your partner will be choosing their own challenges because everyone is different and set challenges would not work for this swap. For example, getting a tattoo would be easy for me since I love body art, but I'm not so sure that I could attend a crafting class because I'm agoraphobic.
  • your partner may choose what type of journal they wish to use. It can be store bought, handmade, unconventional, anything. This swap is all about having fun and doing new things... so if you get a box with the entries on recipe cards, then consider that to be a journal!
  • there is no minimum page limit since artwork is allowed.
  • when rating, keep in mind that these are the "minimum" requirements: 1) that your partner undertook twenty challenges and wrote a five sentence paragraph about each of them, 2) that at least four of the challenges were a little difficult / time consuming for your partner, 3) that your partner included some sort of artwork or extra with each entry, and 4) that a few of those "extras" were larger. In other words... we're all friends and established swappers, so we should be able to recognize when people make an effort and rate accordingly.

Please remember to send what you would love to receive! We want to know exactly what it's like for our partners to try something new or different for them, so make sure to go into as much detail as you can, include interesting extras, and try your hardest at your challenge. :-)

Discussion

smokeyquartz1980 12/10/2009 #

Ok, and just for the record we will not be daring anybody to get naked. I live in Canada, and I don't even want to be naked in the shower, it is to damn cold!!!!!!!

grimmlynn 12/14/2009 #

Now here's a dumb question: If I do more than 20, do I need to include extra 'things' for those entries?

TheFallenAngel 12/15/2009 #

@grimmlynn - Nope, because those entries / "dares" would exceed the requirements and would be "extras". You could add little inclusions if you wanted to, I suppose, to prove that you did something / to draw your partner into the experience more, but it definitely isn't necessary.

CrowsFox 12/21/2009 #

ok hang on... who is chosing the dares? do we all get the same ones? how is this working? HELP! LOL

TheFallenAngel 12/23/2009 #

Hehe, it all makes so much sense in my mind... but I can't figure out how to explain it! I'll sit down today and write up an example, then post it here and in the forums. That way we can tweak the swap to work for whoever wants to join.

But, basically, there will be a list of ideas... and you'll choose one, or come up with one on your own. Try something new, or do something that you haven't done in ages, and write about the experience, include a little something extra to draw your partner more into the experience, and have fun. I'm sick of stagnating! If I don't have motivation, I won't try anything new, so Sarah and I were talking about how to do it in a swap, and this was the result.

I'll try to explain better when it isn't 4am. ::grins::

TheFallenAngel 12/23/2009 #

This thread should hopefully clarify some things... and if not... I can keep trying until I figure out exactly how to explain it, heh.

DebP 12/27/2009 #

Can we start this journal early? Or should we wait til partners are assigned?

TheFallenAngel 12/27/2009 #

You can start early. :-)

DebP 12/28/2009 #

I'm trying to look at this as more of a Challenge Journal than a Dare Journal. The word Dare always rubs me the wrong way. :)

TheFallenAngel 12/30/2009 #

You can just retitle your journal. "Dare" was the first thing I could think of that didn't involve "Make This Year Kick Ass Instead of Suck Ass". ;-)

DebP 01/ 1/2010 #

How come we're losing people now?

TheFallenAngel 01/ 1/2010 #

That's a really damned good question, Deb.

smokeyquartz1980 01/ 2/2010 #

Sorry, thats was prob me, but I'm signing back up because i really don't want to miss out on this one.

grimmlynn 01/ 2/2010 #

No, it was me. I dropped out (back now) because I was scared no one would like it if I made a paper bag scrap book journal or altered a book for a journal. I have been reassured and now feel better.

TheFallenAngel 01/ 5/2010 #

Partners have been assigned, so... have fun!

DebP 01/ 5/2010 #

I'm so excited!

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