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meretricula. Comment by tomorrow morning and you'll give me something to do on the plane! (edit: obviously, later comments are okay, too. that was just a shameless ploy to keep me busy.)

I think it would be fun to talk about stories, but the usual memes are like, "What happens next?" "Tell me about Character A?" Which isn't so much talking about stories as it is writing more of a story. But you know how sometimes you read something and you're like, "I got ___ out of this story, I wonder if I have that right?" or "What on earth was ____ supposed to be?" and it's too awkward to ask the author? Now you could totally ask!

I've heard people say that writing is hard because you have to make decisions, but we never really talk about the decisions we make with stories or why we make them. We talk about plot bunnies, but not about how we actually turn them into a story.

So, if you wanted, ask me questions!

What were you trying to do [here]? Why did you decide to ____? This is what I thought about xyz, is that what you were going for? What made you write ____? Why did you decide to do this? And so on.

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Also, can someone familiar with Yuletide answer a couple questions about sign-ups/matching? I am confused and looking through

yuletide unfortunately hasn't helped. DDD:

Now I will finish packing and go to sleep. Er, soon.

edit: fic snippets in comments!

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About yuletide, I mean.

Right, okay, one is - when you fill out a request, if you specify more than one character, will you be matched with an author who's offered to write both/all of those characters, or just at least one of them? (I say "just" but it would be a good thing, as I'm trying to figure out how to allow for the most flexibility on the part of potential writers!)

...and I just realized I was assuming this, but you do have to stick to the extant character tags for offering/requesting characters, right.

Edited 2010-11-19 05:48 (UTC)

I *think* you're only guaranteed one. I know you're only guaranteed one fandom match but I'm not positive about characters. Obviously, they have a LOT of matching to do and there's always the chance that a person is only going to offer so much in a specific fandom. So, the matching is kind of a lowest common denominator process, for the most part. Especially if it's something especially obscure.

Of course, you can write a yuletide letter if you like, and hopefully your author will take your specific taste into account when writing. I've had okay luck, the years I've joined, but I tend to like smaller exchanges better.

Thanks for clearing that up! I'm totally okay with just the one character match - that's preferable, even, because I can mention totally unrelated characters (relatively) and be equally happy with a writer picking any one of them. I just didn't want to specify more than one if the potential writer had to be willing to write *all* of them in one fic. It'd make matches impossible, for one thing. *g*

Yeah, I would just say to mention in your prompt or whatever that you're down with whichever character and don't need all of them. >D

you are guaranteed a match on the fandom and ALL the characters you request. (and whatever request you are assigned is guaranteed to fit inside the subset of what you offered.) the person who is assigned your request may not be prepared to write these characters together in a romantic fashion but he/she will have volunteered to write them all. if you ask for, like, four characters and actually just want a fic with Characters A and B, or B and C, or A and D, you can mention that in your details, but otherwise your author is required to use all the characters you formally list in your request. (you are NOT guaranteed a match on anything else, btw; all the other tags are optional, and your author is not technically required to pay any attention to your "additional details".)

hope that makes sense!

AHA. Thank you, that's exactly what I needed to know! I knew everything else was option but the characters were throwing me for a loop. :)

(What fandom could I possibly referring to that has a whole raft of unrelated "characters", cough cough.)

hee! yeah, I'm like 75% responsible for how ridiculously long the list of characters for football is, I went through and added every name I recognized from the Not Just a Game archive. =/ whoops. let us pray for adventuresome volunteers who pick "any"! (or in my case the extremely rare "Barcelona slash fan" hurr.)

There's at least - *counts* - two or three of those that I know of! ...besides you! XD <3

we may be few in number, but we compensate in spirit and volume. :D