Attention CCC Folks. You Pick The Words

by Shane Arthur on July 13, 2010

We’ve decided we’re going to try somthing new, and something we believe will be cool.

We’re going to let CCC members choose the words for Thursday’s challenges. The first one will be this Thursday.

If you want to choose the words we use, tell us so in the comments below. We’ll put everyone’s name in an MS Excel spreadsheet (in the order they appear in this post), use a ramdon number generating formula that picks numbers which will correlate with the names of people entered into the sheet in the adjacent cell, and announce the pick. We’ll cycle through the list of people until everyone has had a chance, then we’ll start all over again.

We thought about sponsored posts, but we want to try this first and see how it goes.

So every Tuesday, we’ll choose a name and post the results. You send us your words by no later than Wednesday night (E.S.T in the U.S.). If we don’t receive them by then, we’ll post the words ourselves.

Now, I realize some people may not want to change anything, and I can understand this. For whatever reason, if you don’t want to use words for a particular challenge you can simply skip them and wait for another set.

Write on!

Update: Kool aid reminded me of something. I’ll email you all a copy of the current word. You don’t have to avoid words already used, but I try to just to keep it fresh. You can use the sheet if you like, or choose whichever words you like.

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James Chartrand - Men with Pens July 13, 2010 at 7:15 am

ME! ME ME ME ME ME!!!!!
 
*ahem*
 
Yeah, this sounds neat. I might be interested…

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Shane Arthur July 13, 2010 at 7:18 am

@James: Great, I knew you would like this. I can’t wait because being the administrator who chooses the words, I want to see where 10 words from other people’s creative minds takes me. In other words, I want to let my baby take some baby steps and sit back without trying to catch him if he falls. :)

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ThoreyO July 13, 2010 at 8:08 am

OOH I wanna play :)

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Shane Arthur July 13, 2010 at 8:16 am

@Thorey: So, play you shall!

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margaret July 13, 2010 at 8:28 am

heh, heh, heh…are you sure you really want to do this?…I’m in..muwahahahah!

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Shane Arthur July 13, 2010 at 8:42 am

@Ma: You behave! ;)

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Kool Aid July 13, 2010 at 9:55 am

Now, we’re talking!  I think this could be great fun :)

Although, I just had a thought. Do you keep track of words already used? I know I’ve missed quite a few challenges and I wouldn’t want to repeat anything.

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Shane Arthur July 13, 2010 at 10:03 am

@Kool Aid: Thanks for reminding me of something. I do keep a spreadsheet of all the words. I try not to repeat words because I want to use as many of our language’s cool words as I can, but it’s not a set in stone thing. If people want to repeat they can. I’ll email the person whose name is picked the words so they can avoid them if they like.
Thanks for bringing this up.

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Cathy Miller July 13, 2010 at 1:30 pm

I’m always willing to play a new game. :-)

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Tracey July 13, 2010 at 2:34 pm

Oooh, I’d love to try this!  This could be so much fun!

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Karetha July 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I’m a word junkie…count me in, please!

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A. Hamilton July 13, 2010 at 5:15 pm

Count me in

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Justin Matthews July 13, 2010 at 6:10 pm

You realize that Aaron will be here with words we will all have to look up in the dictionary….But count me in, I will choose you up some words!

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Shane Arthur July 14, 2010 at 6:10 am

@Justin: That’s cool. I love learning new words. :)

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KathleenL July 15, 2010 at 11:50 am

Add me in the hat. I am up to lookin’ up new words to better extend my vocabulary… Heck, I’ve already started thinking of my list of 10 :]

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Shane Arthur July 15, 2010 at 11:55 am

@KathleenL: Okay. Your name’s on the list.

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