HLH_Shortcuts 2015 sign-ups through Thursday 10/15

[brightknightie]

The Highlander community hlh_shortcuts is open for its annual 2015 fanfiction exchange game!

• Sign-ups: 10/08/15 to 10/15/15
• Assignments sent: By 10/18/15
• Stories due: 12/15/15
• Reveals: Starting 12/20/15

I look forward to reading the stories!

I won't be playing, myself, for the usual reasons:

1. This game doesn't let players post (control) the stories. Instead, you email stories to the mod in a DOC and she posts them in LJ. It works, and some people love it! But it doesn't happen to hugely appeal to me, personally.
2. I couldn't possibly satisfy an exchange recipient when 99.9% of the players have different interests, interpretations and assumptions about the series than I do (e.g. I endlessly rewatch the first two seasons; they endlessly rewatch the last two). I would inevitably end up accidentally offending, or at best disappointing, my recipient, and I cringe away from that disaster.

(However, if someone perhaps wants to share a private HL challenge of some sort...?)

Comments

[argentum_ls]

The way posting is done irks me, too. It's outdated as a method and is really counter my writing style of tweaking until the clock runs out. I also really dislike having the comments on the story get effectively lost since I can't see them unless I go to the comm and look, which also runs the real risk of there being comments I never know about.

I think your other concern is unfounded, though. Yes, a lot of the fans are ROG fans, but I don't think anyone is exclusively. There are at least two people already signed up who'd delight in your ability to write a historical story about Duncan, and at least two others who'd appreciate your willingness to write Richie or one of the other underwritten characters. Amand-r is as careful about matches as you are, so she'd try to make sure you got someone you'd work well with, both directions. Obviously, perfection is not guaranteed, but the participants seem to be a pretty easy-going lot. Heck, last year I had to ODAO my match in a big way and I still got a nice comment.

I'd really encourage you to give the exchange a shot. Not that my reasons are unselfish, or anything :)

(Some of us obsessively rewatch the middle two seasons. There's as much spread in HL fandom as there is in FK.)