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)
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

[(Anonymous)]

How can people have no idea what they'll even be writing by now? It's the second week of December! You had since October 27th to work on this!

[(Anonymous)]

Calm down Morbane

[(Anonymous)]

It's still plenty of time until the deadline, though.

[(Anonymous)]

That depends on how good you are at writing quickly. The same people I see dithering about not having started yet are the same people whose exchange output is crap. Oh, you didn't start writing until two days before the deadline, wow, I'd never have guessed from all the typos, bad prose, and OOC nonsense, some of which could have been fixed if you'd spent time editing.

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

That's assuming that if they started earlier, they would spend more time editing. I don't think it works like that. If they wanted to spend time editing, they'd have the whole period between the deadline and reveals.

(Like, I finished my Yuletide fic super early this year, for reasons. But I wrote it in a day, went over it twice and uploaded it. I could theoretically have done the same if I started the day before the deadline.)

[(Anonymous)]

dc

yeah, i did canon review on a friday and wrote the fic on sat/sun - that happened to be in november but it could've been in december too.

[(Anonymous)]

There's at least a week to edit after most deadlines you big baby

[(Anonymous)]

This is textbook confirmation bias.

Fic I write 'in the zone' is usually much better than fic I write by forcing myself to sit down and put words on paper way ahead of the deadline. Obviously, this can backfire if the scope balloons, but usually it's fine.

[(Anonymous)]

The fic i took the longest to write is by far my worst. Different people work differently

[(Anonymous)]

Until very recently I always spent November on Nano and didn't even think about yt until December 1. It's fine. It's 1000 words. I daresay most of the fic being started now will be better than the stuff posted two days after assignments went out.

(Also depending how tough your canon review is and how inflexible your schedule it's very normal to need a month for canon review? I'm not getting through 60 hours of TV or ten novels in much less than that.)

[(Anonymous)]

are you familiar with human nature?

[(Anonymous)]

I have a life. Also shit keeps happening.

[(Anonymous)]

Is this your first time on planet earth?

[(Anonymous)]

Some of us have jobs.

And some of us HAVE been thinking wtf to write since october but recip wants characters we dgaf about in combinations we notp and we made the mistake of choosing "any"