i don't have too many extra thoughts on this, but i just wanted to say that my preference is definitely something a little more structured, especially since new events and newly written stuff is likely to get a little more blood and activity flowing than just a plain sandbox! it sounds perfect to me.

the form of it isn't necessarily important to me, so i don't really have an answer as to whether it should be a separate thing or not. i guess i'm just here to say yes, would love some structure and events or other things to play with being written up!