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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2020-01-01 04:21 pm
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Offseason #1

Use this post for any exchanges running from January onwards into the first quarter of the year. Try to keep final Yuletide thoughts in the last coal post of 2019 for ease of conversation.

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Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Not if they're the only prompts.

If you know there's a possibility (as there is in this exchange) that you might only get <500 words, it makes sense to give some prompts that can be quickly dealt with, if you are bothered about getting what you want in a shorter fic. If you don't care what you get in a shorter fic then sure, let the author go ODOA if they want to write something shorter.

I'd rather have 500 words of something I've prompted for than 500 words of something ODOA.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
If you don't care what you get in a shorter fic then sure, let the author go ODOA if they want to write something shorter.

That's mostly me. I prefer longer fic, so I prompt for longer fic.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. And if you author isn't capable of writing longer fic, then they don't deserve any help from you with prompts, right? You won't like it anyway, so their shorter work is worthless.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Someone who can’t extrapolate a short fic idea from the prompts just isn’t trying. A lot of people don’t care about getting an exact prompt. They’re trying to convey the tone of fic they like. So, if all the prompts are about Aziraphale/Crowley doing epic historical world saving things in various points in history, the recip clearly likes historical settings. So write a snapshot of something in a historical period of your choosing, no epic world-saving needed.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Cyrt

Some people don't have prompts at all. Authors aren't owed prompts. It's not a question of "deserve help from prompts". I prompt for the fic I would like to receive. It's up to the author if they can and want to write it.

Re: Chocolate Box - Letter 3T1L

(Anonymous) 2020-01-06 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
omg lol

this started about a letter where "SOME" of the prompts are good for longer fic

meaning some are good for shorter fic

meaning there is no problem here
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