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

[nicholas_lucien]

It might have been the prompts. I myself was going to write two stories but with work I just ran out of time.

[brightknightie]

Thank you for the insight! If these particular prompts were especially motivating, that's a lesson for me in recognizing such prompts, as I wouldn't have personally guessed that these would be extraordinary in that way.

[calliope24]

Thanks again for all your work with this.

I have to admit that the information that other writers were planning more than one story prompted me to think about doing it as well. That, and the time. I finished my primary story with a month to go and figured I could get something else written as well. I do have a third story floating around in my head which I may still write in the coming months.

The simplicity of the prompts probably helped too. All four are so broad that you could make almost any story fit one, or more, of them.

I do fear that if you move to every other year more inertia might be lost. Hard to say.

[brightknightie]

Thank you for the thank you! :-) Sometimes, I do feel worn out by it.

While it's nice to have more stories, I'm afraid that I have worried that the proliferation of multiple submissions could intimidate or marginalize writers who have time for "only" one. What if they feel pushed out and overlooked? And I worry that it could also affect readers, who may choose to read fewer total authors but the same number of stories in their available time, so that fewer authors get the pleasure of comments.

>"I do fear that if you move to every other year more inertia might be lost. Hard to say."

Hard to say, for sure!

In the years where we had conspicuously, progressively fewer writers -- from 20 down to 5, as I told TheFruitBat, above -- some people who had dropped away told me that if we changed to playing every second year, they would feel more inclined to participate again. I don't know whether that would have proved out at the time, never mind now that we're back up to 10, but it's something I still wonder about.

[greerwatson]

"I have worried that the proliferation of multiple submissions could intimidate or marginalize writers who have time for "only" one. What if they feel pushed out and overlooked?"

Not in my case, I assure you. I marvel at their enthusiasm and thoroughly enjoy the extra stories to read.