FKFicFest '24 nearing finish line

[brightknightie]

fkficfest continues revealing. After today's, we have three stories left. Friday will have two shorter stories, Saturday a long story, and Sunday will have the round-up/index and "closing ceremonies" post.

I've posted promos to all the relevant DW communities that I know of, and to ForKni-L after every fourth story. A person on the email list replied there to say, "Thank you all." (I do encourage people there to share comments and kudos on the stories; I'm not sure that registers.) Please consider promoting the fest as appropriate on whatever platforms you like.

The story I wrote, myself, posted a week ago today. It's Nick-centric, historical, and pro-virtue; you know me. You'll find a wide variety of stories in the rest of the fest, so hopefully approaches to appeal to many assorted tastes. It's okay that not every story is for every reader, of course!

(I still don't know what to make of the unusually high percentage of multiple stories by single authors this year. Of the remaining three stories, two more are coming. Was it the calendar? The prompts? Coincidence?)

I hope people have had fun, both writing and reading.

Comments

[switchbladeeyes]

Thanks for running and promoting the fest!

Can't speak for anyone else, but multiples for me was a function of having ideas AND *time* to execute them. Last year was the first time I learned about the fest, having been inactive in any fandom for many, many years, and not active in this one this one since... late 90s/early 00s? Something like that.

While I had ideas last year, I lacked time, and did not participate (though quite some time after the fest ended, I still went back and read most of the stories, and even later finished a story based on an idea I had from a prompt). This year just shook out differently. I knew I could likely hit three once I finished the first two by the end of April. That I hit a 4th was more luck than anything else. The 4th (and remaining to be posted) story just kind of popped into my head one day last month and was very short so not difficult to execute.

So the biggest factor for me was the availability of time in my life. Followed by ideas. Followed by luck. Having a bit more confidence in myself at this point also helped, I am sure.

[brightknightie]

Thank you for the insights! I appreciate it.

From a macro level, for fest planning, it sounds like your happy experience falls under "coincidence," that is, as not anything directly replicable to help scale enthusiasm for the community at large. So I will try to stop worrying that there's something I should do here. :-)