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.)