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[acchikocchi]

Shamelessly swiped from 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!

Comments

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

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.

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

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*

[chaosraven.livejournal.com]

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