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Default deadline: December 11 (9am UTC)
Madness Opens: December 26 (9am UTC)
Author reveals: January 1 (9am UTC)
Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
Yuletide Discord for Hippos & Exchanges After Dark Discords for Namespace
You can type some numbers or words at the bottom of your comments if it makes you happier, coalie.
I start by thinking about the themes, and how each character can be tied to the theme, and then I try to give each of them a question to answer, so the character arc of the story can be them answering or not answering it, and then I try to tie all this into a wider story, where their question drives them to drive the plot and vice versa, and then, with that outline complete, I try to divide it into acts and acts into scenes and scenes into moments that we get in to as late as possible and out of as fast as possible, to keep the pacing up, and then, about two days before the deadline, I panic like fuck, throw this all away, and hack out 3K words by the seat of my pants, which I then edit over and over between the deadline and the collection going live.
for those opting into it, how often have you got smut written for you in yuletide? if you give both smutty and non-smutty prompts, how often does your writer opt for the non-smut?
I’ve got a slice of life canon that’s a comedy and I love the original but I want a plot of some sort for this Yuletide fic and I’m coming up with nothing at the moment.
Anyone have some suggestions? At this point my brain is just like do a cosmic horror or something and while that would be hilarious it might be a bit much.
Anyone have some suggestions? At this point my brain is just like do a cosmic horror or something and while that would be hilarious it might be a bit much.
Read prompt. Get idea. Write idea from beginning to end. Post.
SA
Both characters can be any age from high school to midlife crisis adults and are best friends. The f/f is easy enough for me to add in just I need some plot framework.
Both characters can be any age from high school to midlife crisis adults and are best friends. The f/f is easy enough for me to add in just I need some plot framework.
There's no way Morbane & co. aren't aware of FakeCirilla9's deal, right? Like, they're definitely knowingly allowing someone like that to participate, huh?
Like what?
The Chechnya nomination was in bad taste. There's no reason to suppose anything else is wrong. What kind of rule about participants do you think yuletide should have?
The Chechnya nomination was in bad taste. There's no reason to suppose anything else is wrong. What kind of rule about participants do you think yuletide should have?
Does it have to be an actual cosmic horror? Would something that seems like a cosmic horror that results in investigation and being accidentally locked in a cupboard for enforced proximity sexy times and then turns out to just have been stray cats or a janitor making moonshine work?
I enjoy editing about five times more than I do writing, so most of my first drafts are written in TheMostDangerousWritingApp (website that forces you to keep typing continuously for X minutes or it deletes all your work) to force me to put actual words down on the page, after which I can play with them to my heart’s content.
This is bordering on purity test nonsense. Sometimes exchanges will have some shitty people in them who like gross shit they probably haven't thought through at all beyond the surface level of two hot people doing a trope they like. And that sucks, but they get mocked/ignored/terrible fic, and eventually they go away by themselves, like that nazi-fucker.
assign them to lolmeme like they did with ars_belli
I would get distracted and accidentally lose so much work so often doing that. :(
Are you suggesting some kind of global moral litmus test for participants?
It would be a lot funnier if it was actually cosmic horror but like the red sheep pacifist of the horror family. Spooky try hard. So embarrassing for everyone involved.
they don't always go away, though, and until they do, normal people have to put up with them. banning people from exchanges for being racist creeps is fine.
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