It was the Coal of Times

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It was the best of assignments, it was the worst of assignments, it was the age of gaming your offers, it was the age of forgetting to remove that one fandom from your offers, it was the epoch of treat writing, it was the epoch of apocapinch-hits, it was the season of fics of your dreams, it was the season of explicit DNW spitefic, it was the spring of hope that the anon in the comment above is writing for you, it was the winter of ars_belli is your author.

Prompts revealed and Madness opens: Approx 9 November
Default deadline: 11 December, 9am UTC
Assignment deadline: 18 December, 9am UTC
Main Collection Reveals: 25 December (time tba)

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Comments

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

The letter is a placeholder, how could this happen to me!

How long do you usually wait before asking mods about placeholders?

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

At least the 8th.

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but that's the earliest you can ask. I meant do you usually wait longer or is that not an expected courtesy?

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

Don't wait longer.

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

If you want to start on your story, you should start on your story. Not everybody has all the free time in the world to wait for their recipient to get their act together.

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

Three days is hardly "all the free time in the world".

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

I don't ask the mods about placeholders. If the recip doesn't care enough to update *shrug* I write a story I'd like based on whatever scant info they gave.

I have a placeholder letter. If it's not update in a week, I'm writing what I want anyway.

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

I like this approach, but if they a letter super late, like after you've already started/finished, do you feel like you need to go back and revise to give them what they want? What if they put DNWs in there?

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

I'd check my story for it to avoid a DNW, but that's really on them and not my fault. DNWs need to go in the sign-up, because there are people who don't even read letters. And nobody's obligated to check back for weeks to see if they bothered to write one anyway.

Re: Yuletide - Assignements out

[(Anonymous)]

This happened to me once with a placeholder that was updated many weeks into the writing period with DNWs added. It was dumb luck that I happened to check on the letter again and that I didn't hit any of those DNWs. Even if I had, I'm not sure I would have changed the story at that point.