Some Day My Fic Will Come!
I hope everyone enjoyed Yuletide!
As we settle down into the season of New Year's Resolutions, my fellow Yulechatters and I have a new challenge we'd like to put on the table. You see, I've been doing Yuletide long enough -- and reading letters obsessively enough -- that I've started to notice how many of us there are who have That Request. You know the one I mean: the request you've been making year after year, and you don't want to give up on it because you love the idea that much . . . but it hasn't ever been filled.
Some Day My Fic Will Come is a challenge for those prompts! The idea is that we put together a spreadsheet of perennial requests, and then people looking to write something for NYR can browse that list for fic ideas and make somebody's dream come true. :-)
Prompts for this challenge should fulfill the following two criteria:
1) You've asked for it in Yuletide at least three times, AND
2) It has never been filled.
You don't have to have asked for it this past Yuletide, nor do the requests have to be consecutive. We won't be policing the list at all, so we just ask that you not submit prompts that have been filled before, even if you'd love to see somebody tackle them again. The idea here is to draw attention to the requests that have shown up year after year, but never gotten a fic at all.
If you have a prompt that fits the bill, post the following in the comments:
Your AO3 name:
Fandom:
Character(s): (if applicable)
Link: (optional)
Prompt:
Try to keep the prompt relatively short; the idea is that people browsing can easily get the gist of what you're hoping for and know whether it's in their ballpark or not. If you want to go into more detail, include general likes/dislikes, etc, then you're welcome to link to a past Dear Yuletide Writer letter or a post written for this purpose, but that's entirely optional.
If you want to fulfill one of the prompts, all you have to do is find something you like in the spreadsheet. Then follow the usual NYR process: write the story, tag the recipient, add it to the collection. (If you want to tag it "Some Day My Fic Will Come," you're welcome to.) It's that simple!
Many thanks to everyone in chat who gave this idea an enthusiastic thumbs-up, and especially Doranwen and Morbane for helping out with spreadsheet maintenance.
As we settle down into the season of New Year's Resolutions, my fellow Yulechatters and I have a new challenge we'd like to put on the table. You see, I've been doing Yuletide long enough -- and reading letters obsessively enough -- that I've started to notice how many of us there are who have That Request. You know the one I mean: the request you've been making year after year, and you don't want to give up on it because you love the idea that much . . . but it hasn't ever been filled.
Some Day My Fic Will Come is a challenge for those prompts! The idea is that we put together a spreadsheet of perennial requests, and then people looking to write something for NYR can browse that list for fic ideas and make somebody's dream come true. :-)
Prompts for this challenge should fulfill the following two criteria:
1) You've asked for it in Yuletide at least three times, AND
2) It has never been filled.
You don't have to have asked for it this past Yuletide, nor do the requests have to be consecutive. We won't be policing the list at all, so we just ask that you not submit prompts that have been filled before, even if you'd love to see somebody tackle them again. The idea here is to draw attention to the requests that have shown up year after year, but never gotten a fic at all.
If you have a prompt that fits the bill, post the following in the comments:
Your AO3 name:
Fandom:
Character(s): (if applicable)
Link: (optional)
Prompt:
Try to keep the prompt relatively short; the idea is that people browsing can easily get the gist of what you're hoping for and know whether it's in their ballpark or not. If you want to go into more detail, include general likes/dislikes, etc, then you're welcome to link to a past Dear Yuletide Writer letter or a post written for this purpose, but that's entirely optional.
If you want to fulfill one of the prompts, all you have to do is find something you like in the spreadsheet. Then follow the usual NYR process: write the story, tag the recipient, add it to the collection. (If you want to tag it "Some Day My Fic Will Come," you're welcome to.) It's that simple!
Many thanks to everyone in chat who gave this idea an enthusiastic thumbs-up, and especially Doranwen and Morbane for helping out with spreadsheet maintenance.