Dear Challenge Writer letters
So, I've written a bunch of these letters, and they tend to either be highly repetitious or say, "Check the tag for these letters". The differences mainly lie where I talk about how I view the characters/fandom in any particular request.
I suspect that other people who have participated in exchange ficathons are in the same boat, but I don't know that you are. Are you?
Anyway, this whole cutting and pasting deal has begun to feel very burdensome. (My Satedan Grabass letter was ungraciously titled "JFC, not another one." wince. Not my shiniest fandom moment.)
However, when I am assigned someone else, I really do quail at the prospect of either a blank slate or diving undirected into the sea of someone else's psyche as filtered through their online journal keeping habits, and even a pointer to a letter written for Yuletide 2006 is better than "This Journal is Friends Only."
So, this leads me pretty unsure how to procede, in the general case, and wondering what other people think about this sort of thing, both as the writer of a Dear Challenge Writer letter and as a potential Challenge Writer.
Also, out of curiosity, if you are an innocent, challenge non-participatory bystander, are you bored as hell by seeing a flurry of "Dear Challenge Writer" letters spread across your reading page, or do you enjoy this insight into the fictional desires of the people you've subscribed to?
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I suspect that other people who have participated in exchange ficathons are in the same boat, but I don't know that you are. Are you?
Anyway, this whole cutting and pasting deal has begun to feel very burdensome. (My Satedan Grabass letter was ungraciously titled "JFC, not another one." wince. Not my shiniest fandom moment.)
However, when I am assigned someone else, I really do quail at the prospect of either a blank slate or diving undirected into the sea of someone else's psyche as filtered through their online journal keeping habits, and even a pointer to a letter written for Yuletide 2006 is better than "This Journal is Friends Only."
So, this leads me pretty unsure how to procede, in the general case, and wondering what other people think about this sort of thing, both as the writer of a Dear Challenge Writer letter and as a potential Challenge Writer.
Also, out of curiosity, if you are an innocent, challenge non-participatory bystander, are you bored as hell by seeing a flurry of "Dear Challenge Writer" letters spread across your reading page, or do you enjoy this insight into the fictional desires of the people you've subscribed to?
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