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[prillalar]

I have my santa_smex assignment and it is love. I can't decide whether I should write the pairing that will make everyone know that it's me or the pairing that no one will guess. Or one of the other pairings. Or see if I can plausibly work in more than one. (I don't like "everyone is gay" but sometimes it can work.) Whee! Except I can't tell anybody about it, which I really want to do.

And I shall break my rule and paste in for you a bit of chat from a few weeks back:

kestrelsan: so, question for you, only because I've seen it mentioned a couple of times recently - are we still steadfast in our no-Yuletide or other holiday story writing rule?

prillalar: um

kestrelsan: LOL
kestrelsan: say YES

prillalar: I already signed up for a holiday thing

kestrelsan: ohhhhh

prillalar: I thought it was just Yuletide!

kestrelsan: you get no cookie

So, I have no cookie. But I get to write some smut and that has less carbs anyhow.

Message to intrepid author who drew my name: I'm really easy. The most important thing for me is that you write a story that you like and are happy with. So don't worry too much about shoehorning in any of the stuff I asked for. If the boys are in character and the story is interesting, that's all I ask. (That said, the "other sports" thing is something I really, really like.) I like things more R than NC-17 and that's about it so far as what you need to know.

I think that people sometimes shoot themselves in the foot when they are too specific in challenge requests. It's good to give some ideas about what you like as a starting place, but if someone has to write to a grocery list, they probably won't be doing their best work. If you want something that specific, you might want to write it for yourself.

Comments

[pixxers.livejournal.com]

I want to talk about my assignment. A whole, whole lot.

You raise a good point, though - I don't want anyone writing for me from a script. That really does kill creativity.

And you used my favorite icon. :)

[kestrelsan.livejournal.com]

Ha, when I'm free and carefree come middle of December, I will laugh and laugh....

[alice-and-lain.livejournal.com]

I'm really excited about mine too! Even though I'm nervous about writing R/NC-17 because I've done it only two times before. But mostly I'm excited to see all the results in December!

[weetanya.livejournal.com]

There was only one word in the "laundry list" that made me go 0o.

And I might have to do that one just to stretch my writing ;)

[happiestwhen.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, yeah, I feel sort of bad for authors who get me in fic exchanges because I... get embarrassingly form-happy and then type until I'm breaking the comment character-limit and have listed, like, fifty things I'd like to receive and another fifty I'd never want to read in my life. Which is misleading because generally I'm pretty happy reading anything with certain characters or pairings. Like, for example, I don't think I would have ever requested someone write a data pair fic that featured hair-cutting, and yet, I sure wouldn't say no to such a story appearing on my flist. ;)

If the boys are in character and the story is interesting, that's all I ask.

Exactly. The sign-ups are meant as a springboard, but only that. Most of the stuff I request is stuff that interests me about a pairing, but sometimes I can be sort of narrow-minded XD, and I want to see what interests and captivates the author as well.