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brightknightie) wrote2016-06-18 10:31 am
brightknightie) wrote2016-06-18 10:31 am
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ficathon thoughts
MyOldFandom
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myoldfandom was scheduled to reveal its stories yesterday, but hasn't yet. It looks like someone defaulted on the reveal day itself, even with a week between the due date and the reveal day... but perhaps the default was itself a pinch-hit. Things happen.
I feel on edge for the stories to release now, while I'm near my keyboard, rather than later, when I'm out and about and device-free. Ah, well. I suppose it could even be days until the reveal! And then we'll be in the middle of the work week...
FKFicFest
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fkficfest as an exchange game, please try to sign up this weekend!
We don't yet have enough players (9). This will be the last week of sign-ups (deadline June 25). There may well be people who would sign up if they knew for sure that we would play exchange style, but who are hanging back in hopes that the exchange will fail and we'll play challenge style. If those who want to play exchange style wait until the last minute to sign up, I worry that then the hanging-back people will get shut out, and we'll end up with fewer total players (and therefore more difficult matching) than we might have had, if everyone had known clearly what to expect.
The FKFicFest community voted for exchange style overall, and also among the subset who said they'd "definitely" play. But it looks to be so, so close. It would great to be able to post the final promo reminders with a firm declaration of exchange style.
myoldfandom was scheduled to reveal its stories yesterday, but hasn't yet. It looks like someone defaulted on the reveal day itself, even with a week between the due date and the reveal day... but perhaps the default was itself a pinch-hit. Things happen.I feel on edge for the stories to release now, while I'm near my keyboard, rather than later, when I'm out and about and device-free. Ah, well. I suppose it could even be days until the reveal! And then we'll be in the middle of the work week...
FKFicFest
If you're planning to sign up for
fkficfest/fkficfest as an exchange game, please try to sign up this weekend!We don't yet have enough players (9). This will be the last week of sign-ups (deadline June 25). There may well be people who would sign up if they knew for sure that we would play exchange style, but who are hanging back in hopes that the exchange will fail and we'll play challenge style. If those who want to play exchange style wait until the last minute to sign up, I worry that then the hanging-back people will get shut out, and we'll end up with fewer total players (and therefore more difficult matching) than we might have had, if everyone had known clearly what to expect.
The FKFicFest community voted for exchange style overall, and also among the subset who said they'd "definitely" play. But it looks to be so, so close. It would great to be able to post the final promo reminders with a firm declaration of exchange style.
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Also, I'd like to offer this link for people who have trouble thinking of prompts:
http://writingexercises.co.uk/dialogue-generator.php
That page generates a random line of dialogue that can be very useful for writing prompts.
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And thank you for reminding me to share links to assorted prompt resources. I'll reuse those that I posted last year," if they're all still available; I believe that I included the first-line generator then.
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It's going to be close. If everyone who promised to sign-up does, we'll hit 9 exactly. Anything we can do to boost turnout, like finalizing the fact of exchange-style rather than challenge-style, could help win us another player (or two or three), which could help with generating appealing matches across preferences.