New Year’s Resolution Requirement and Schedule Announcement
New Year’s Resolutions
If you took part in Yuletide and defaulted after the default deadline, or you submitted an incomplete story at the posting deadline, we ask you to complete a New Year’s Resolution story before you sign up again.
There are currently over 200 people on our NYR list. We are sending an email to everyone who was added to the list after Yuletide 2015. We don’t want you to get to Yuletide 2016, try to sign up, and realise at this late juncture that you are under a restriction.
The email we use is the one currently associated with your AO3 account. If you have any doubt about whether you fulfilled the Yuletide challenge last year, please check your AO3 account details to see what email address the message was sent to. It’s also possible that our message has gone to your spam folder.
You are welcome to comment here or to email yuletideadmin@gmail.com and ask if you are on the list of people who need to complete a New Year’s Resolution fic.
More information about New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Resolution fics written for the purpose of re-qualifying for Yuletide must be posted to the New Year's Resolution 2016 collection before sign-ups begin for Yuletide 2016. They must be over 1,000 words and written to a previous Yuletide prompt. You can write for any Yuletide 2015 prompt, or you can choose an older Yuletide prompt as long as the fandom in which you write is small enough to still qualify for Yuletide (that is: when adding the total fics on AO3 and ff.net, there are fewer than 1,000 fics that are in English, complete, and over 1,000 words long).
The New Year’s Resolution system exists for several reasons
-It's an incentive to encourage people either to default early, or, to push on through and post something
-It's a reality check if you're uncertain of your ability to finish a story at all
-It's a contribution to the project of getting more stories written in tiny fandoms
-It's a way of ensuring that past prompts don't get entirely forgotten.
If you had to default in a past year, we are aware that this may have been for a carefully-considered reason or in a difficult time. Needing to complete a NYR does not mean we think you're a terrible person. We hope you use it as an opportunity to write something you enjoy.
You are also welcome to submit a NYR story if you just feel like writing one! The collection will stay open for late fills until Yuletide 2016 assignments are sent out.
Writers are especially encouraged to write stories for prompts that were not filled during the main Yuletide run.
2015 prompts on AO3
Google spreadsheet of 2015's Dear Author letters
Database of 2015's Dear Author letters
2015 prompts as a text file
Prompts from 2015's non-signed-up pinch hitters on LJ and on DW
Some Day My Fic Will Come mini-challenge: info - This challenge is about those prompts that are posted year after year after year... add yours to the spreadsheet to increase their visibility, or see if you can fill someone else's perennial request.
Schedule note
Yuletide will be on the early side this year.
Yuletide nominations will begin on September 9.
Yuletide sign-ups will begin on October 1.
We will have more dates and information for you in August.
If you took part in Yuletide and defaulted after the default deadline, or you submitted an incomplete story at the posting deadline, we ask you to complete a New Year’s Resolution story before you sign up again.
There are currently over 200 people on our NYR list. We are sending an email to everyone who was added to the list after Yuletide 2015. We don’t want you to get to Yuletide 2016, try to sign up, and realise at this late juncture that you are under a restriction.
The email we use is the one currently associated with your AO3 account. If you have any doubt about whether you fulfilled the Yuletide challenge last year, please check your AO3 account details to see what email address the message was sent to. It’s also possible that our message has gone to your spam folder.
You are welcome to comment here or to email yuletideadmin@gmail.com and ask if you are on the list of people who need to complete a New Year’s Resolution fic.
More information about New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Resolution fics written for the purpose of re-qualifying for Yuletide must be posted to the New Year's Resolution 2016 collection before sign-ups begin for Yuletide 2016. They must be over 1,000 words and written to a previous Yuletide prompt. You can write for any Yuletide 2015 prompt, or you can choose an older Yuletide prompt as long as the fandom in which you write is small enough to still qualify for Yuletide (that is: when adding the total fics on AO3 and ff.net, there are fewer than 1,000 fics that are in English, complete, and over 1,000 words long).
The New Year’s Resolution system exists for several reasons
-It's an incentive to encourage people either to default early, or, to push on through and post something
-It's a reality check if you're uncertain of your ability to finish a story at all
-It's a contribution to the project of getting more stories written in tiny fandoms
-It's a way of ensuring that past prompts don't get entirely forgotten.
If you had to default in a past year, we are aware that this may have been for a carefully-considered reason or in a difficult time. Needing to complete a NYR does not mean we think you're a terrible person. We hope you use it as an opportunity to write something you enjoy.
You are also welcome to submit a NYR story if you just feel like writing one! The collection will stay open for late fills until Yuletide 2016 assignments are sent out.
Writers are especially encouraged to write stories for prompts that were not filled during the main Yuletide run.
2015 prompts on AO3
Google spreadsheet of 2015's Dear Author letters
Database of 2015's Dear Author letters
2015 prompts as a text file
Prompts from 2015's non-signed-up pinch hitters on LJ and on DW
Some Day My Fic Will Come mini-challenge: info - This challenge is about those prompts that are posted year after year after year... add yours to the spreadsheet to increase their visibility, or see if you can fill someone else's perennial request.
Schedule note
Yuletide will be on the early side this year.
Yuletide nominations will begin on September 9.
Yuletide sign-ups will begin on October 1.
We will have more dates and information for you in August.