One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
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Comments

1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Downsides here.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

How can I write for this canon again without sounding samey?

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Write in second person. /bad advice bear

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

1-sentence commenter. At least they seem to be a reliable 1-sentence commenter.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Same for mine.

Also, my front-running story idea, I discovered while investigating their commenting habits, is not entirely dissimilar to what they received last year (in another fandom). So, we'll see what I go with.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Writing for someone I've written for before and am scared they won't like it this time around, even though they adored my previous work for them.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

yeah same here, the old two cakes problem.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely no one but my recipient will read it and it's a kind of porn I'm too precious to put on my main account.

I realize this is a me problem but hey, no one said the downsides had to be reasonable.

If I were brimming with energy I would turn this into a challenge to write the kind of niche porn that's so bold and hot that people zoom in on the tags and read it canon-blind, but I don't know if I have that in me this year.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

My recip didn’t comment on my fic the last time I wrote for them. :(

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Boo-Hiss.

See if you can't do a swap.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

I really don't agree with their characterisation about the characters in terms of their prompts. (E.g. Prompt - Character A loves the outdoors so much that they meet Character B on a hiking holiday. Canon - Character A likes technology and being indoors)

It's doable but it won't be a fic which runs away from me in my excitement.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

It's a copy-paste of a request I've already written for this person twice before. It's fine and they're clearly someone who just repeats the same requests year after year because they always want more of the same thing, but it does get progressively harder to keep springboarding new ideas off of the exact same wording every time.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

One of their DNWs is a bit wobbly, and I've had bad experiences with that before. I'm sure it'll be fine; I'll ask for clarification to settle my mind, but it makes me paranoid.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

I offered the fandom based on this letter because I was excited to do some historical research; now daunted and overwhelmed by needing to do some historical research.

(Every year my Yuletide perfectionism gets to me and I spend weeks doing deep dives and reading/watching other material, but this might be the year that bites me in the ass because I always go way beyond what my recip clearly expects but for once this recip might have expectations beyond what I can do.)

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

My recipient is a really good writer and I'm intimidated about doing one of their prompts in case they're like I could have written this myself better

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

It's pretty railroady and honestly it's pretty clear that they should have requested A & B rather than just A (the character I offered). I can work with this but it's a bit of a buzzkill to have so many avenues of creative freedom cut off. Not terribly excited.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

My recipient offered me only three incredibly barebones prompts, which I normally like in a recipient, but the prompts are just like here's three different non-canon ship options of the requested character with non-nominated characters, all of which I don't ship, and zero indication of why my recipient likes those ships. If I independently liked any of these ships, I would be totally golden, but I don't and so I'm at a loss of how to write something my recipient would like. I'm willing to try to write one of these ships, but I really don't get the appeal enough to come up with an idea on my own.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Placeholder letter with no prompts T_T

If no one stops me I'm just going to do the interactive fiction of my heart.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

I somehow failed to consider that I'm going to be writing about a bunch of children. I'm not entirely confident about my ability to do that well, at all.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

I should have thought more carefully about all the additional stuff I'd need to know while writing this fandom.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Some broad DNWs that preclude the original idea I had. Like, I could still mostly write it, but I feel like without the DNW it'll be less interesting.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

Combo of requested characters and given prompts means I can either meaningfully include all required characters or follow one of their prompts but not both.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

No letter, noncommenter.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

I was really excited to write for this nostalgia fandom, but the recipient gave me no prompts. Womp womp.

Re: 1 Less-Good Thing About Your Assignment

[(Anonymous)]

recip wants ship fluff of 2 characters i notp and don't care that much about separately.