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SFF Secret Santa Idea -- Rules and Guidelines Posted
(1) To participate, PM me with something you like and something you want in a story. PM ME BY NOVEMBER 16TH. Examples:
- I like Neil Gaiman, and I want a sextant in the story.
- I love character stories, and I want a robot war.
- Pirates rule, and I want a reference to Alexandrite.
Say you as a writer get something you don't like. For instance, the person I wind up writing for says "I love romance stories, romance is so awesome especially when no one dies at the end!" This is something I cannot write successfully. Well, looks like I have a challenge
Take this as an opportunity to really stretch yourself as a writer.
If there is an element you do not want in your story (excessive violence, gore, swearing, sex) put that in your request!
(2) Stories must be no shorter than 500 words, no longer than 2000 words (this is flexible). If you are shy, you may simply PM your gift to your recipient, though I think it would be awesome if we all shared our gifts (I'm thinking in SYW--details to come on this front).
(3) You have until December 23rd to post (I say this in case someone from the states gets someone in Australia, that way the Aussie still gets it by the 24th).
(4) By dropping your name in a hat, it binds you to writing for whoever you're assigned to. Write for them. Because if you fail to deliver your gift, that's really going to be a sad day for someone.
(5) Savvy?
PARTICIPANTS
1) dempsey (done!)
2) Williebee (done!)
3) DeadlyAccurate (done!)
4) NicoleMD (done!)
5) KittyPryde (done!)
6) IdiotsRUs (done!)
7) dclary (done!)
8) SPMiller (done!)
9) BahamutChild (done!)
10) L M Ashton
11) Nakhlasmoke (done!)
12) rosemerry (done!)
13) maxmordon (done!)
14) ELMontague (done!)
15) Neurotic (done!)
16) Hummingbird (done!)
SECRET SANTA ASSIGNMENTS HAVE BEEN DRAWN AND IT'S ALL CLOSED NOW!!
Since nobody has yet posted their work in SYW, keep not-posting your work in SYW.
Instead, you can give me (the central person who already knows the Secret Santa pairups though I don't have them memorized and as of now have actually forgotten who is writing something for me) the work. I will pass it along to the person on December 23, and they can "open" their gift on Christmas. Or cheat and open early. We won't judge.
Then, after Christmas has gone past, we'll post our work. What I'll do, is I will make one BIG HUGE THREAD which will showcase all the work done for Secret Santa, to be posted sometime on Boxing Day. This thread will not be open for criticism, just for positive comments and sharing. I'll likely post in SFF. (Everybody will post their own story, so that we have the avatar-and-name association at a glance. I'll just start it off by posting mine. Take the plunge, as it were.)
Should you as a writer want crits, because we all want to improve our craft and this is a great way to do it, feel free to post in SYW, noting the challenge topic, and those can be gone through by everybody to help the writer along. Be sure to do this AFTER BOXING DAY.
Original Post...
So I had an idea. We should do a Secret Santa thing.
The idea basically goes as follows:
Everybody who wants to join puts their name in the hat. Your "name in the hat" consists of, well, your forum name, and something you'd like to have written and some personal detail of what you like to read.
Example: dempsey, something involving a sextant, favorite author is Neil Gaiman.
We'll draw and assign Santas. Everybody has to have their "gift" posted by December 23rd (I say this to account for the fact that Dec 23rd in America is Dec 24th in Aussieland, etc).
No less than 500 words, no more than 2000 words
This post is primarily to see if anybody's interested
SECRET SANTA
(1) To participate, PM me with something you like and something you want in a story. PM ME BY NOVEMBER 16TH. Examples:
- I like Neil Gaiman, and I want a sextant in the story.
- I love character stories, and I want a robot war.
- Pirates rule, and I want a reference to Alexandrite.
Say you as a writer get something you don't like. For instance, the person I wind up writing for says "I love romance stories, romance is so awesome especially when no one dies at the end!" This is something I cannot write successfully. Well, looks like I have a challenge
Take this as an opportunity to really stretch yourself as a writer.If there is an element you do not want in your story (excessive violence, gore, swearing, sex) put that in your request!
(2) Stories must be no shorter than 500 words, no longer than 2000 words (this is flexible). If you are shy, you may simply PM your gift to your recipient, though I think it would be awesome if we all shared our gifts (I'm thinking in SYW--details to come on this front).
(3) You have until December 23rd to post (I say this in case someone from the states gets someone in Australia, that way the Aussie still gets it by the 24th).
(4) By dropping your name in a hat, it binds you to writing for whoever you're assigned to. Write for them. Because if you fail to deliver your gift, that's really going to be a sad day for someone.
(5) Savvy?
PARTICIPANTS
1) dempsey (done!)
2) Williebee (done!)
3) DeadlyAccurate (done!)
4) NicoleMD (done!)
5) KittyPryde (done!)
6) IdiotsRUs (done!)
7) dclary (done!)
8) SPMiller (done!)
9) BahamutChild (done!)
10) L M Ashton
11) Nakhlasmoke (done!)
12) rosemerry (done!)
13) maxmordon (done!)
14) ELMontague (done!)
15) Neurotic (done!)
16) Hummingbird (done!)
SECRET SANTA ASSIGNMENTS HAVE BEEN DRAWN AND IT'S ALL CLOSED NOW!!
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Since nobody has yet posted their work in SYW, keep not-posting your work in SYW.
Instead, you can give me (the central person who already knows the Secret Santa pairups though I don't have them memorized and as of now have actually forgotten who is writing something for me) the work. I will pass it along to the person on December 23, and they can "open" their gift on Christmas. Or cheat and open early. We won't judge.
Then, after Christmas has gone past, we'll post our work. What I'll do, is I will make one BIG HUGE THREAD which will showcase all the work done for Secret Santa, to be posted sometime on Boxing Day. This thread will not be open for criticism, just for positive comments and sharing. I'll likely post in SFF. (Everybody will post their own story, so that we have the avatar-and-name association at a glance. I'll just start it off by posting mine. Take the plunge, as it were.)
Should you as a writer want crits, because we all want to improve our craft and this is a great way to do it, feel free to post in SYW, noting the challenge topic, and those can be gone through by everybody to help the writer along. Be sure to do this AFTER BOXING DAY.
Original Post...
So I had an idea. We should do a Secret Santa thing.
The idea basically goes as follows:
Everybody who wants to join puts their name in the hat. Your "name in the hat" consists of, well, your forum name, and something you'd like to have written and some personal detail of what you like to read.
Example: dempsey, something involving a sextant, favorite author is Neil Gaiman.
We'll draw and assign Santas. Everybody has to have their "gift" posted by December 23rd (I say this to account for the fact that Dec 23rd in America is Dec 24th in Aussieland, etc).
No less than 500 words, no more than 2000 words
This post is primarily to see if anybody's interested
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