Tips on prompting/Dear Author letters/Doing Yuletide
OMG, sign-ups are almost upon us! I'm so excited. It's about this time that I go digging through meta from previous years, to remind myself of the pearls of wisdom people have compiled about how to get the most out of your Yultide experience. These are my favourites:
liviapenn: How to Not Ruin Yuletide
penknife: Eight ways to break your ficathon writer's brain
thefourthvine: [Meta]: The Yuletide Prompt Poll Results
liviapenn: Thoughts on Yuletide prompts and requests
shusu: LJ: postcards from Yuletide
Also, I'm curious: for people who've participated in Yuletide before, what's the single most useful thing a recipient's ever written to you in a prompt or Dear Author letter, and why? Mine was 'Bonden, I am convinced, is an ancestor of Jeeves, Bunter and Alfred Pennyworth'; I can't imagine a more concise way of telling me which aspects of his character were most important to her, and it also gave me a bunny for the kind of story she might enjoy - Bonden forming a relationship with someone that was similar to the relationships Jeeves, Bunter and Alfred have with their employers.
ETA: Some more meta links, courtesy of emily_shore:
Yuletide letters and -isms in fiction
HOW TO HAVE FUN AT YULETIDE
If you have a favourite piece of Yuletide meta, link it in the post and I'll add it to the list :)
liviapenn: How to Not Ruin Yuletide
penknife: Eight ways to break your ficathon writer's brain
thefourthvine: [Meta]: The Yuletide Prompt Poll Results
liviapenn: Thoughts on Yuletide prompts and requests
shusu: LJ: postcards from Yuletide
Also, I'm curious: for people who've participated in Yuletide before, what's the single most useful thing a recipient's ever written to you in a prompt or Dear Author letter, and why? Mine was 'Bonden, I am convinced, is an ancestor of Jeeves, Bunter and Alfred Pennyworth'; I can't imagine a more concise way of telling me which aspects of his character were most important to her, and it also gave me a bunny for the kind of story she might enjoy - Bonden forming a relationship with someone that was similar to the relationships Jeeves, Bunter and Alfred have with their employers.
ETA: Some more meta links, courtesy of emily_shore:
Yuletide letters and -isms in fiction
HOW TO HAVE FUN AT YULETIDE
If you have a favourite piece of Yuletide meta, link it in the post and I'll add it to the list :)