Yuletide for bystanders
I have had multiple people express some confusion over this "Yuletide" thing I'm doing, and while there are FAQs at the Yuletide site, they're more focused on participants. So here's a quick info dump for bystanders.
(Those who know more about Yuletide than me, please let me know if I've said something inaccurate or misleading.)
Yuletide is an annual fanfiction exchange for rare fandoms. There are debates about what exactly is rare, but among other things it is a chance for people to read and write fanfiction for stories (or concepts, or what-have-you) that don't generate a lot of fic on their own. For example, last year I responded to a request for fiction about the Beatles album Revolver, and other 'local' fics last year were about Order of the Stick and Flora Segunda.
Story assignments are created by a nominate-offer-request system, which allows a program to give out assignments so that everyone is writing a story they've offered, and receiving a story they've requested. The assignments go out in late November, and the stories (which must be 1000 words or longer) are due in late December. These stories are uploaded to a central system, and the stories are revealed to their recipients (and the world) on Christmas morning. The authors of the stories are not revealed until a week later, on New Year's. My understanding is that this is so that the stories are appreciated for themselves, not for the reputations (fannish or otherwise) of their authors.
tl,dr: Yuletide is for odd fanfic; please don't talk about what people may be writing until New Year's Day.
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(Those who know more about Yuletide than me, please let me know if I've said something inaccurate or misleading.)
Yuletide is an annual fanfiction exchange for rare fandoms. There are debates about what exactly is rare, but among other things it is a chance for people to read and write fanfiction for stories (or concepts, or what-have-you) that don't generate a lot of fic on their own. For example, last year I responded to a request for fiction about the Beatles album Revolver, and other 'local' fics last year were about Order of the Stick and Flora Segunda.
Story assignments are created by a nominate-offer-request system, which allows a program to give out assignments so that everyone is writing a story they've offered, and receiving a story they've requested. The assignments go out in late November, and the stories (which must be 1000 words or longer) are due in late December. These stories are uploaded to a central system, and the stories are revealed to their recipients (and the world) on Christmas morning. The authors of the stories are not revealed until a week later, on New Year's. My understanding is that this is so that the stories are appreciated for themselves, not for the reputations (fannish or otherwise) of their authors.
tl,dr: Yuletide is for odd fanfic; please don't talk about what people may be writing until New Year's Day.
This entry was originally posted at http://cnoocy.dreamwidth.org/2345.html, where there are
comments. Please comment there using OpenID.