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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

DA

On the other hand, if you match on a first-person novel, capturing the character's voice is inherently pastiching the canon. If I offered, I don't know, Spinning Silver and matched to someone who DNWed pastiche, I'd definitely have to try to write that in third person because I have no idea where the line would be between "character's voice" and "pastiche of the canon style" when the character is the narrator.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

You'd have to do the same if they DNWed first person, which a lot of people do (especially in canons with first person narration).

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Right, but in that case that's a literal DNW of that thing, not "I can't tell if they'd consider accurately matching the character voice to trip their DNW or not."

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I'd definitely avoid 1st person POV for a canon with 1st person narration when the recip has a pastiche DNW! That isn't the same as matching the character voice in dialogue.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

That’s great if it’s Shakespeare. If it’s a modern prose canon, I may have absolutely no idea what to avoid.

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

they showed up to the circus and got angry at the amount of clowns

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I'm not exactly a last minute person usually but I had to make sure I signed up on the early side this year because I wasn't sure how exhausted I'd be Friday night and I wouldn't have enough time for it during the work week. Right now, on Thursday, it's looking like extremely exhausted, so I'm glad I finished up last weekend.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

OP says: someone else please do this! I'm not allowed to mess with challenges until my goddamv letter is done, which will be three seconds before assignments go out at this rate.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the highest praise a piece of tech can get

[(Anonymous)]

You made my morning, drunk coalie

[(Anonymous)]

You are way more organised than me. :(

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

A statistically significant number of clowns. 😔

[(Anonymous)]

Load up on the margs and just Chuck a signup in!

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

Generalization: there is no such thing as a Good Egg participant

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

Are there Bad Eggs though

[(Anonymous)]

Do people judge you when they see that some of your fandom sections are longer than others? It’s not that I like the shorter fandom sections less, I just wrote my letter out of order and now I’m out of brain juice.

[(Anonymous)]

Older fandom, several requests, zero letters, and too many characters nominated to have any idea what anyone is looking for. I must be a fool to still have this in my offers. And yet....!!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't. I try to keep mine mostly similar in length but sometimes there's just more to say about one. I try not to even look at fandom sections if I didn't match on them.

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds exciting, coalie!! Genuinely, I really enjoy the luck of the draw.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

I would believe them in terms of writing whatever I was inspired to write without worrying about hitting a squick or trigger. I would not, however, take it as a challenge.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but those people are neurotic idiots.

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

Since this is a stats thread, can you define what you mean by good egg participant?

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

:3 That is why I have the generalization out there. Is it possible to statistically identify a good egg? And by what metrics?

I personally end up thinking of people as nice if... they're nice to me or the community. Whether that's in interactions, comments, or a wildly personalized gift - and those things can't be drawn from stats directly.

Re: Stats Game

[(Anonymous)]

Question: Is there a correlation between letter length and number of gifts received?