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


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Re: Mutual cheer squad

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Either Renault fandom - or JS&MN - or the Aubreyad.

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
emergency pinch hit

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Emergency Pinch Hit - one that goes out after the collection is supposed to be complete. For cases where mods thought recip had a story at deadline, and only realized too late that it was not an acceptable gift, usually because of DNW violations but sometimes it's something like an incomplete story that the mods didn't notice in time or a writer who deletes a story before the collection opens.

Re: let's play: DNW WTF

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
You're doing fandom right, coalie <33 I appreciate you

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
Seems like there's a 50k work most years, so that should be a safe bet.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Having just finished the outline for my assignment, it feels likes it's going to be in the 3.7-4.1k range.

Longest fic, I'm gonna say 62k words

Average fic, probably 1.8-2k

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
how do you block tracking on butts
how do you block rabbits on pinch hits
how do you pinch butts on tracks

Re: One IPH left!

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
They may need to recover from popping their own bottles.

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
pls track my butt

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty sure that got talked about on coal at the time, because I was boggled by it.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
i don't know how people do that but good for them

Winterblumensaat

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Looks like the original poster of the Winterblumensaat and Nur die Sonne fics took their original fics down.

Coward. We were building something beautiful for you.

Re: two IPHs left

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
SA. Yup. https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/11512.html?thread=39871736#cmt39871736

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Having done it, I do know. You start as early as possible and write every day for eternity.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
The writing period has heavy overlap with NaNoWriMo, so I'd imagine the people who pound out a longfic for Yuletide are at least doing something NaNo-adjacent.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
+ 1

Or its a drawerfic that fit a request.

Or they started writing it last Yuletide/had been working on it for another exchange and can finally finish and post it.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
Mine will probably be 3k or so based on my outline, but it's the sort of thing that could easily expand. I'm considering writing my recip 2 fics since I know one of their other fandoms, but their prompts aren't amazing so we'll see. (tbf, my prompts for this fandom weren't great either).

Longest fic = 57k?
Average = 1.3k (lots of people in chat seem to be saying their comfort zone is usually less than 1 or 2k, so I feel like it'll skew low)

Re: Winterblumensaat

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
I shall mourn you forever, Fioriloriorientina.

Re: Winterblumensaat

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Did they sign up this year at all? Since their ruse was headed off at the pass?

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
When a 30000 word yuletide happened to me, it was "oh this is a great idea it'll probably be about 8-9000 words I should start early" and then both estimated length and franticness of writing schedule went up asymptotically as I wrote and wrote and somehow got no closer to the end.

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
Somewhere in the 10-12k range. I'm a little alarmed by this. I need to get cracking, but I have a fic for a different exchange I need to finish first.

Re: Winterblumensaat

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
My theory is that they're this person:

https://coaltide.dreamwidth.org/4801.html?thread=9032897#cmt9032897

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, NaYuleWriMo definitely helped.

Re: Winterblumensaat

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oooh that would be interesting! I never saw any links to that happening so wasn't sure it was real

Re: Fic lengths

(Anonymous) 2021-10-27 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
considering I just outlined it and it's 2k words + plus a bunch of notes I have, I'm estimating at least 10k
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