One Wank After Another

[coalcube]

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)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

Is it readable? When I've shaken my gifts and they've ballooned between deadline and reveals, they're always riddled with errors like the writer didn't have time or didn't bother to get a beta or even do a second read through. Oh look, much longer unreadable crap, thanks for writing for me I guess.

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

dc

Personally, between deadline and reveals my stories always turn from “1200 word good start to a fic that I guess stands alone but isn’t very satisfying” to “actual story I meant to write, even if the ending is a little rushed” because that’s just how my brain works (the good stuff doesn’t come out until I’m under pressure like an orange in a juice squeezer). It’s not fun and I wish I could finish earlier with less stress, but my recipients have always been very pleased so I’m mainly the one who suffers haha.

Re: Yuletide crimes

[(Anonymous)]

DC

A lot of my favorite gifts went from just over the minimum word count to 8k-20k after the deadline, and none of them were ever sloppily written.