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Yuletide Weather Forecast:
 
Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, it's within the rules, but last year I had a signup that basically said "I have no idea how to write fic for this fandom, I hope you do, go for it" and that was a great writing experience. This year I have literally nothing and it's been incredibly frustrating.

If you leave your signup blank you're basically putting onto your writer not just coming up with an idea, but also guessing, based on absolutely no evidence, things like what you consider the edges of opt-in/opt-out. You requested two characters and nothing else, does that mean you think this is a shipping fest? You have no characters in your request, does that mean you are okay with any characters in the character set, or any characters at all, or no characters, or you just didn't know how the signup worked? Etc. So if you want to do a good job you're stuck trying to write to a very narrow interpretation of the YT rules and assuming anything anyone has ever considered opt-in is off the table, which generally means a boring safety fic. You can't even really ask the mods because with nothing to ask questions about it's going to either come out as "Does recip like this very specific idea I had?" or "Could recip please give me any optional details at all?" and with a blank sign-up it's even odds you get no answer anyway. Or you just throw it out and write whatever and don't think about the recip.

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

You are make this way too hard. If you get a blank signup, write whatever you want that fulfills the request, leaving out things you would NORMALLY leave out unless requested (probably snuff, scat, etc). That's all you have to do.

You have no characters in your request, does that mean you are okay with any characters in the character set, or any characters at all, or no characters, or you just didn't know how the signup worked?

It means you get to write any character nominated. That's how "any" works. This is not a mystery.

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, that's the "follow YT rules strictly and write for yourself" option I mentioned. That's what a lot of people who've been saying they got no signup are saying they did, and that it serves the prompter right. Which it does.