So about FKFicFest 2021

[brightknightie]

It's time to start thinking about fkficfest for 2021. (Did you realize that this year is the 25th anniversary of the first airing of "Last Knight?")

I'll soon put up a poll with the usual questions:

• Do folks want to play this year, or skip a year?


• Do we want to play exchange-gift style or challenge-prompt style?
  • If we play exchange-gift style, I think we should adopt a modified HLH_Shortcuts sign-up style, instead of our original sign-up style.
  • If we play challenge-prompt style, how many prompts should we have? 1, 2, 3? We'll definitely elect the prompt(s), and use proper stack-rank voting, instead of first-past-the-post or points, to identify the most popular.
  
  
• When do we want stories to come due? We need ~2 months to write. So April, May, June, July, August?


• I hope everyone is okay with the minimum word-count staying lowered to 500 words...? No maximum, of course.

What else should our poll ask? What else should I consider?

Thank you!

Comments

[batdina]

(Did you realize that this year is the 25th anniversary of the first airing of "Last Knight?")

I can honestly answer this with a "yes" as leela and I will have been together 25 years in February, and we watched it together the week before it aired (remember satellite tv?).

[brightknightie]

Oh, my, those counts do match, don't they? Happy upcoming anniversary!

I never understood the satellite TV / early access phenomenon back in the day. I have since learned more about how many of those mechanisms worked... in plenty of time for it to be useful in, um, historical fiction. ~grin~

[batdina]

Yes. It's like the old modem sound. I'll never forget it; kids don't have a clue what it is.

(Have you ever seen the video with the kids trying to figure out what a rotary phone is? I haven't laughed that hard in years.)

[nicholas_lucien]

Definitely want to have one this year. I'm not quite sure what the HLH sign-up style is, but I'll try it. It was also fun to play the challenge-prompt style with a few of the highest-ranked prompts to chose from (three seemed good from last time). I tend to like it earlier in the year rather than later. I'm fine with the lowered word count so long as there is no upper limit!

[brightknightie]

I'm personally inclined to go challenge-prompt fest style again, electing 3 common prompts.

But I'm happy to go back to exchange-gift style, if we can loosen our parameters and expectations just a little (given how few of us there are, and how widely our tastes diverge).

I wrote up a model similar-to-HLH sign-up template for us last year: take a look at it? Instead of an "order" from the reader to the writer, it's more like a "menu" from which the writer can assemble a meal...?

[pj1228]

It's great that we're still coming up with stories a quarter of a century after the last episode aired!

I'm looking forward to playing again this year. I think you've covered all essential aspects for the survey.

I liked the way we played last year with a selection of three mutually chosen prompts. We'll ptobably be too few for exchange-style. But I don't know what the Highlander sign-up is and if it would amend the limited number of participants.

[brightknightie]

I'm personally inclined to play prompt-challenge style again. Yet if folks would prefer to go back to gift-exchange style, that's fine, as long as we loosen our expectations of each others a little, so that writers don't feel burdened, and recipients don't feel disappointed, as much as possible.

I wrote up a model similar-to-HLH sign-up template for us last year: take a look at it?

[dlyt]

Count me in!

[brightknightie]

Will do! :-D