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

[brightknightie]

Thank you for the insight!

At this time, I intend to offer another game next year, if enough folks are interested, and if I can make time in my schedule. We've managed to do this every year for fifteen years now, though it has been as early as early May and as late as late August, as many as 23 stories and as few as 6, as many as 20 authors and as few as 5 (including me).

I have wondered whether we should switch to every second year, instead of every year, to maintain freshness and enthusiasm.

[greerwatson]

"I have wondered whether we should switch to every second year"

Please no. I have seen other smallish exchanges/fests do this, and it seems to be a fatal move. Rather than maintaining enthusiasm, it has the opposite effect. People who have "written it into their calendar" for years drift off to doing other things and a lot of them never return.