Yuletide nominations
Sep. 14th, 2017 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI nominated for Yuletide. After lots of "how could I possibly choose", I decided that I might as well pick three works I liked and thought would make good fic, and not feel like I had to pick the BEST three. I can probably dredge up more obscure things I loved, and would really love to see fic from, but I find it hard to bring to mind things I've not thought of for ages.
There's lots of things I love, things like webcomics and webfiction which might deserve attention. I eventually chose three I thought would make good stories.
Elements (experiments in character design), the tarot-like cards showing a character for each chemical element. They're just so pretty, each looks like it tells a story. I was sad the physical cards seemed to be sold out and never for sale. They were nominated two years ago, and I was sad to see not last year.
And two webcomics, Leftover Soup (from Tailsteak, the author of the awesome 1/0, ooh, maybe I should submit that instead), and YAFGC (Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, like Oglaf, very not safe for work, but sort of in a surprisingly wholesome way).
Did other people manage to nominate things?
I am also basking in the disconcertingly competent assumption that, I expect to be able to, just get a story done, without a whole lot of putting it off. I'm not at all used to signing up to something with a deadline and not assuming I'll panic but it's worth it!
I looked at my notes from last year for "what might I be interested in nominating next year". It was mostly the same sorts of things. Although one was, "Steven Universe, if it doesn't exceed the limit of number of works", I guess that must have happened now :) Although I find it really hard to predict. I went to look up Vorkosigan, the universe I was surprised was still eligible when I wrote for it two years ago, and it looks like there's more than a 1000 fics on ao3 from before that, am I misremembering how eligibility/search works?
There's lots of things I love, things like webcomics and webfiction which might deserve attention. I eventually chose three I thought would make good stories.
Elements (experiments in character design), the tarot-like cards showing a character for each chemical element. They're just so pretty, each looks like it tells a story. I was sad the physical cards seemed to be sold out and never for sale. They were nominated two years ago, and I was sad to see not last year.
And two webcomics, Leftover Soup (from Tailsteak, the author of the awesome 1/0, ooh, maybe I should submit that instead), and YAFGC (Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, like Oglaf, very not safe for work, but sort of in a surprisingly wholesome way).
Did other people manage to nominate things?
I am also basking in the disconcertingly competent assumption that, I expect to be able to, just get a story done, without a whole lot of putting it off. I'm not at all used to signing up to something with a deadline and not assuming I'll panic but it's worth it!
I looked at my notes from last year for "what might I be interested in nominating next year". It was mostly the same sorts of things. Although one was, "Steven Universe, if it doesn't exceed the limit of number of works", I guess that must have happened now :) Although I find it really hard to predict. I went to look up Vorkosigan, the universe I was surprised was still eligible when I wrote for it two years ago, and it looks like there's more than a 1000 fics on ao3 from before that, am I misremembering how eligibility/search works?
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Date: 2017-09-15 10:43 am (UTC)I'm glad that my feelings about it have moved, from my first year (2012) of "oh god how do I write a 1000+ word story it is terribly worrying" to basically "yep, I can write a story that length on demand if needed and it won't be terrible" (it may not be brilliant but it won't be terrible). I am absolutely planning to write multiple stories this Yuletide, I've really enjoyed picking up pinch hits and writing treats in the past, and I greatly resented not being able to do any of that last winter because I was studying.
Although, a good outcome of studying is that I'm now much more comfortable with turning out essays to required wordcount; essays and fiction aren't the same thing, but they both involve producing words to other people's requirements, and that's definitely something I am much more comfortable with now than I was six years ago - which is when I was a) first reading Yuletide and b) first writing university-level essays.
Re Vorkosigan: the rules include "in English" and "over 1000 words" and there's a nifty bookmarklet that will check and exclude works under the wordcount, linked from yuletide-admin.
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Date: 2017-09-15 01:56 pm (UTC)I've not tried writing any of the extras before, two years ago because I wasn't sure if I was up to doing it at all, and one year ago because I did nanowrimo :) This year I'm debating between doing a cut-down version of nanowrimo and trying to write a set number of yuletide extras :)
Yeah, "getting it done" is a skill it's really good to acquire, I'm glad you're getting on top of it. I have it a little, but still very rudimentary. I have been interested in noticing how I do a similar thing with fic and programming, that I need enough inspiration for what *should* happen, which I can generate deliberately but also takes a certain amount of time, and then there's a lot of turning the handle, which I used to find really hard but has slowly got easier.
Ah, thank you. That's what I forgot. That looks like maybe it *is* out of eligibility now, but not so dramatically so.
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