a post-reveal fandom poll!

[healingmirth]

I've been wanting to ask this question since assignments went out, when I decided (for the second year running) to write in a fandom where I was not already familiar with the source material. And now that the authors are revealed, I can!

Poll a post-reveal poll!

Comments

[yahtzee63]

I wrote a crossover between the offered/matched fandom and another fandom I didn't offer, but that my recipient mentioned as a favorite in her Yuletide letter and with which I was already familiar.

[emily_shore]

I wrote my recipient's main Yuletide story in a fandom that I offered, and a treat for her in the same fandom.

I also wrote three treats in two different fandoms that I had offered, all inspired by DYW letters. DYW letters are good!

[spicy_diamond]

Ah, ditto for me!

The fandom love in the DYW is amazing. And browsing the DYW letters before signing up helps remind me 'Oh! I should sign up to write for that fandom!'

[marag]

I wrote a treat for someone on my flist, in a fandom I offered. It turns out that she was my assigned writer and she wrote for me in the same fandom. Hey, it's a fandom of three people, it happens ;)

[tinx_r]

I did this too!

[andelendir]

Here as well.

[rabidsamfan]

To be perfectly honest, I no longer remember which fandoms I offered with very much precision...

[ankaret]

I was just about to say the same thing! I know there was a lot of 'shall I offer 'any' in this one' and 'do I have time to re-read the source for that' and 'oh dear, I am clearly too stupid for this form' going on in my head, and it kind of blanks out the actual details.

I'm more willing to write extra stories in a fandom than offer it, I think, because committing to writing to any prompt that comes down the wire requires more flexibility than flipping through DYW letters or pinch-hit emails and thinking 'Could I do that?'

[carolinecrane]

I started a fic for my assigned recipient in the fandom I offered, then I had a 'panic and freak out' moment about trying to get it to, you know, not suck, and I learned the canon for another of her requests because I knew someone who knew it well enough to beta.

So then I wrote a back-up fic, after which I went back and fixed my original fic. And that's how I ended up writing two fics for my assignment.

I also wrote four treats for fandoms I didn't offer, because I knew I'd be AFK during Madness, so I figured I'd do it while I had the time. Luckily I didn't write anything that was already covered by the assigned writer, AFAIK.