Welcome to the WWEnd Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge.  If you haven't read it yet, check out our challenge intro blog post for the story and the challenge page itself for the details.  If you have any questions or comments about the challenge over all ask them here.

As new challenges get created their hosts will start individual threads here so you can ask your challenge specific questions in those.

Join in a challenge or roll your own and happy reading!

Click the big logo to get to the challenge page then scroll down.  There are only 2 RYOs so far:  GMRC and WoGF.  Perhaps I should label that section.

To make the BookTrackr work for all challenge we took out the author tag part.  Now you just go to the novel page, add it to your reading list then check all the RYOs that apply and hit submit.  I'm doing WoGF and GMRC so I was able to find 2 books from women Grand Masters that will work for both challenges.

Thomcat - 2014-01-07 2:29 PM Guessing that the author addition is still being worked on; I was able to add a book by adding it to my reading list and then checking the box. To add my own request - authors that I have read are shaded on the Science Fiction grandmasters list; looks like the Horror Grandmasters list ( https://www.worldswithoutend.com/authors_horror_grandmasters.asp ) does not have this feature. Yet.

Author addition has been disabled for simplicity.  Fixing the Horror GM list is on our list of edits.  I think it just moved up the priority list since we really need it now with this new challenge.

On the novel page in the BookTrackr section there is a list of all the challenges you're signed up for that looks like this:

I'm really interested to see what kind of challenges come up.  Charles Dee hit on the translated works already which is a really cool idea.  I'm looking forward to yours, Dr.

Thomcat pointed out the image problem AND the solution in a PM so it's fixed now.  Thanks ya'll!

I think that's a great idea for a challenge.  If you build it, they will come!  "Thomcat's Killer YA Summer Reading Challenge"

Hey Steve, it sounds like daxxh's Read the Sequel challenge might be what you're looking for.

To create your own challenge just click the big "Roll-Your-Own" button in the right sidebar on the challenge page.  Don't forget that you can create your own personal challenge too and mark it private.  For instance, for your Hugo goal you can make a personal challenge to read 50 Hugos this year and fill it up with the books you intend to read.  Of course, a Hugo challenge would be a popular idea though you might have to make it fewer books to keep it attractive to other members.

So far all the challenges are just 12 books which is cool since that means you can probably choose more than one.  I'm on 2 so far and already I want to do the In Translation and Masterworks challenges.  And it's only going to get worse as you guys keep making more cool challenges!

There is a general request thread that you can use for now.  We're actually working on a book request form that will streamline things quite a bit.  Last year I got requests in multiple threads and via email etc. and it was a lot of work to organize etc.  The new form will create a first-come first-served list that will be easier to track.  There will be a flag so you can let us know if it's a challenge request versus a general request and we'll weight the challenge books more so we can try to be timely with delivery on those.

Now here's the best part.  We're getting closer to opening up the site for user submission of books so there will be a handful of select Uber User volunteers with access to help us keep up with the requests.  Should make things go much faster so keep an eye out for those new developments in the next few weeks.  Fingers crossed!

There is a general request thread for now but we'll have a request form to make things easier shortly. 

The challenges can be addictive!  I've signed up for 3 already too.  I'm a little afraid of what new challenges will come along that I'll HAVE to join.   I'm glad you're back for more and don't sweat the reviews.  They get easier as you write them... or so I've heard.  Thanks for the kind words about the site.  Our members make it fun to work on.

That is indeed a glitch!  In our database we tag every book as SF, Fantasy or Horror as a basic category for sorting and tracking etc.  Turns out that we did not mark Who Fears Death as any of those so it was being filtered out for all the challenges.  It's fixed now.  Thanks for letting us know and my apologies for the inconvenience.

A belated congratulations for coming up with this year's challenge format - it's addictive!

I'm considering making a "There's Genre in My Literature!"  challenge, but I might already be overextended with the challenges I've signed up for.  Perhaps if there's interest...

That is a glitch.  Or we've got pixlexia.  I'll have whargoul look at the code.

Thanks very much!  It really is addictive, isn't it?

There's Genre in My Literature! sounds like a cool idea.  If you're worried about taking on too much you can always make it a short challenge.  Most of the challenges seem to be sticking with the default 12 books.  Why not just 6 or even 3?

Well, that's an unexpected occurance.  I've gone into the DB and set the start date to 1/1/2014 so you can at least see it again while whargoul looks into the issue today.  The list option will show on the novel page now so you can load it up.

Yeah, the private challenges can't be seen by others and they don't count in the stats.  There are only 3 right now which is a bit surprising to me.  I thought there would be more but I guess with 20+ public challenges going there's lots to choose from already.

 Thanks for addressing this issue! Appreciate it muchly!

Yeah, the form is not complete and shouldn't be out on the live site.  We made some updates to the page and forgot to remove the form link before we deployed.  I'll take it down shortly.  Sorry to get your hopes up.