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C.R.E.A.M

Coal ruins exchanges around me - spitey spitey fic y'all.

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won’t someone think of the type 1 error!!!

But not everyone feels that way.

The best kind of wasted! I hope you also have a fantastic thursday. And Friday and weekend!

Cheers! I'm just putting my judgmental nature to good use.

To me this is like being told to recite a Shakespeare soliloquy but like as myself. It would trip me up way too much. But it's totally unenforceable which just makes me lol.

But a fanfic isn't a recital.

If it's a Shakespearen canon, you could just not write your fanfic in verse or write it in modern language or both. Voilà: pastiche DNW successfully avoided.

sarajayechan
Content: I like the mini-prompts – potential jumping-off points for fic, and gives a good idea of what the recip likes overall. 4/5

Formatting: I'd prefer the likes and DNWs to be condensed into comma-separated rather than bulleted lists; they're kind of overwhelming. Not sure why "DNWs" and "squicks" are separate lists? I'm reading it as interpreting "squicks" to mean "specifically sexual DNWs," but it's a little confusing. 3/5

Overall rating: 3.5/5, I'd be happy to get this letter as a writer.

reflectedeve
Content: Love the discussions of what the recip likes about each canon, plus the prompts. Personal and chatty tone without rambling. 5/5

Formatting: Great! Probably because the general likes and DNWs lists are shorter than in sarajayechan's letter, I don't find the bulleted format overwhelming. 5/5

Overall rating: 5/5, absolutely exemplary. (BRB, gotta go edit my own letter now!)

lebibish
Content: Again, I like the discussion of why the recip likes these fandoms, as well as the mini-prompts. 4/5

Formatting: Okay, immediate disadvantage – sorry! – for being a Tumblr letter: it's just so narrow! The symbol for the bulleted lists also looks confusingly like a lowercase "o", which keeps catching me off guard, but idk how much control you have over formatting specifics on Tumblr. Otherwise okay, though you really don't have to write ODAO at the start of every fandom. 3/5

Overall rating: 3.5/5

serephemeral
Content: I like how clear the DNW exceptions are – big help for situations where something would feel difficult to exclude entirely without going AU in a big way. I like how much the recip's personality comes through, and how fun the prompts are – the perfect level of detail, in my opinion.
Also, I adore literally all of the Oz prompts – if I had my Oz books with me (as opposed to across the country in my baby sister's bedroom) I'd be changing my offers this minute. 5/5

Formatting: Buddy, your bulleted lists are screwed up in a big way, and it's driving me slightly nuts. On the plus side, excellent use of bold/italics and varying font size! 3.5/5 (Sorry, can't get over those lists.)

Overall rating: 4.25/5

CenozoicSynapsid: Wrote a literal freaking novella last year, in the first person, with the same narrator as canon – and it was absolutely flawless.

I wish signups ended on Sunday. I haven't had a non-work day since they opened. >:(

+1 Same :(

Lilliburlero. Love their writing to death, but I’m also very intimidated by their work.

But to everyone who does, this DNW sounds like "DNW: good fic".

ayrt

That's true for a number of DNWs. It doesn't make them less legitimate DNWs.

Or it sounds like "You aren't allowed to play to your strengths but I won't tell you what to do instead."

dc - But I think the point is that this isn't like "DNW shipfic" or "DNW angst" or something. At least for some of us, it literally reads like a DNW for writing the characters and setting well. "Write me a story about these characters but don't make it resemble canon." You'd have to at least explain what you want it to resemble instead of canon, or what aspects of canon you want it to not resemble.

ayrt

IDK about the person who DNWs it, but I to me DNW: pastiche would just be the narrative voice and style, not the characters and the setting. Unless the author has a fairly bland modern prose style, not trying to resemble their style wouldn't be a big issue. I can see how it might be a complicated DNW if you match on, say, a Star Trek novel or Harry Potter. But if you match on Shakespeare or Hugo or Austen, the DNW is clear and easy to follow.

Morbane, for obvious reasons.

I'm requesting an entire slate of Canon Gays™ so I'm holding my breath for Make the Yuletide Gay.

Next time someone nominates Ninety-Three it should be with Hugo's voice as a character, is what I'm hearing. ;)

i am by no means the world's greatest lyricist, but i DEFINITELY have one eye on some of the prompts from the new yuletune challenge. hopefully i can sneak some music-y treats in there

nerds

I think they opened on Friday, so there was at least one full weekend for people who need to sign up on one (this obviously doesn't apply to people who work variable shifts). It's part of why I got everything done early this year. No time during the actual sign-ups, so I got everything ready to the point where I could do the rest during the evening after work.

Mh, if it's in a letter thread I definitely think they know about exchanges that opting out of DNWs is a conscious choice. I might react differently if it was in the optional details.

I don't think greenlily does Yuletide any more, but for a while she was writing cozyfic for Diana Wynne Jones books. I still go back and read her stories when I'm having a bad day and I want the fanfic equivalent of curling up under a fuzzy blanket with a cup of tea.

coalie if you hate bad stats so much, what are you doing here in the bad stats thread of coaltide

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