HLH_Shortcuts '19 is on

[brightknightie]

hlh_shortcuts 2019 sign-ups are now open. This is the major Highlander fanfic event of the year at this end of history. (HL has long been too big for Yuletide.) Read the sign-up post.

HLH_Shortcuts sets a 500-word minimum (shorter than FKFicFest). Sign-ups are public. The fest encourages broad matches, and daring to try to write outside your character or scenario comfort zone, if you can.

• Sign-up: September 22, 2019 to September 29, 2019.
• Assignments given: No later than October 6, 2019
• Due queued on the AO3: December 12, 2019
• Reveals start: December 20, 2019

I've read at least some of its stories every year this event has run. I've written for it the past 3 years.

I'm strongly inclined to sign up again. Yet I haven't forgotten hyperventilating over my [very real] inadequacies all 3 times I've participated as a writer. I'm on the distant outskirts of the fandom, and I worry about making a mess or hurting someone's feelings. (I've had fic events go awry like that. Trying my best doesn't guarantee I won't screw up.) Point being: I will think very hard about it. I have a week to decide!

How about you?

Comments

[argentum_ls]

I have written stories for Shortcuts that I'm certain greatly displeased the recip. Sometimes that's how it goes. I'll still be signing up again.

[batdina]

I've been considering this one for a few weeks now. Nice to hear it's a go.

[argentum_ls]

It’s starting early this year, too. :)

[brightknightie]

I would be very interested to read you write for HLH_Shortcuts!


For myself, writing, I'm not sure. I perceive that I'm the only one who likes most of what I like, and I just can't offer most of what others request. I can possibly be more use reading and commenting; I will definitely read and comment.

(I'm dispirited by my FK stories going very poorly all through in recent years, and my HL stories turning out okay in the end but being such struggles on the way. I need to re-learn how to do this, and learn, really for the first time, how to do it in today's environment.)

[brightknightie]

For the record: (1) sign-up deadline is tonight, and (2) while it may once again lead to anxiety and the edge of fanfic disaster, I'm going to sign up to try my best again this year.

[havocthecat]

I refer you to my post on Highlander (and, by extrapolation, all old fandoms) and how the years gradually fade the differences between us -

https://havocthecat.dreamwidth.org/1706622.html