Revisiting a Summer Writing Challenge

A couple years ago, my colleague Emily Johnson wrote a post about an experimental “gamified” writing challenge she designed for our Games Research Group. We’ve run variants on this challenge in the group from time to time, but summer seems to be the most productive. This year, we’re incorporating a few social elements designed to help push back against the isolation of summer writing. Many of our group members aren’t actually on campus during the summer, and those faculty not involved in admini...