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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!