I made a poll!!!

[susan5124]

If I'm not mistaken, Glompfest should be coming up in a couple of months and I'm so excited! It's my favorite fest and this year I'm determined to be prepared with the best prompt in the history of prompts, so that every H/D writer in fandom will be fighting over it and wishing they had thought of it themselves. OK. That's not going to happen, but

Comments

[fantasyfiend09]

With a gift fest like Glomp, I like a lot of information so that I can really cater to the recipient.

If it goes too far, however, I feel like I am just filling in a form rather than writing fic. If the process gets too forumulatic, the writing suffers and I think the recipient gets a lower quality fic. I want a prompt that gives me enough wiggle room to add my own touch. The best fics written for my own prompts usually took the story in a direction I hadn't even considered and I loved the excitement of it being my prompt but also something unknown and spontaneous.

[susan5124]

Sometimes I have a very general idea for a fic, but sometimes the idea is more detailed, but IF I look at it and see that it has too many details, then I try to take out details that aren't important to my basic idea. I agree that it's best to let the writer put their touch on it. I completely agree that the best fics that were written for me were the ones where the writer seemed to have been really inspired by the prompt and went in an unexpected direction. There have even been times that something I usually consider a squick was included and because of the way it was written into the fic, it just seemed to fit and I really loved it

[birdsofshore]

Personally, if a prompt is too specific, I just can't get going with it. I need something that sort of sets me off on a path, but, I only need a push to get going. I don't want someone else steering me the whole way because then there's no joy in the process for me. I like discovering for myself what it is the characters want to do next. So, if someone has mapped the entire fic out from start to finish, I would never pick up that prompt. It just doesn't work for me

[dysonrules]

I'd rather start with an enormous amount of information regarding what they want to see, and then leave things out as necessary. Far easier than trying to dredge up an idea from "daffodil" or something. :P