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helmine!
Assignments will go out tomorrow. I'm waiting on clarification from a couple of folks, but most of the assignments are made and ready to go out the door.
In the meantime, some info about how assignments were made, how they will be communicated to you, and how to proceed once you receive yours:
You will each receive an email from me by midnight tomorrow. In the email I will identify your story recipient, and will give you verbatim the information they provided to me about the kind of story they want.
Your Assignment
For the most part, I made assignments based on articulated first preferences (as much as I could determine from the emails I received). That is, I tried to match your first preference on the kind of story you wanted to write with someone else's first preference on the kind of story they wanted to receive. HOWEVER, you are not required to write stories based on stated first preferences: the only requirement is that the story fit one of the recipient's stated requests, and that the story not contained any material specifically vetoed by the recipient. Given that, you are standing in for Santa--try to make the story one the recipient will enjoy receiving!
You are getting instructions from the recipient verbatim: I will simply cut and paste the instructions I received into the email to you. If you are confused by anything the recipient has requested, DO NOT CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY TO RESOLVE THE CONFUSION. This would obviously defeat utterly the seekrit part of this exercise. Email any questions you have to me, and I will communicate with the recipient and try to get the information you want.
It's a Seekrit
For the same reason, please refrain from posting details about your assignment in your livejournal or any other public place. Pairings in particular should not be identified, unless the pairing is Fraser/Kowalski, in which case the field is heavily populated enough to prevent anyone from figuring out anything specific.
Deadlines and Formatting
Deadline for stories is midnight on December 19th. At that time, if you don't deliver your story, and the story written for you is easily substituted for the story you failed to deliver, I will feel absolutely no guilt in making a substitution. If a substitution cannot be made, I will contact those of you who volunteered to help out in this situation to see if you can put together something in the week before the reveal.
Stories should be delivered to me appropriately coded for a livejournal entry: html or rich text. I haven't figured out all of the ins and outs of this, but the tentative plan is that I will set up 28 separate friends groups for theds_seekritsanta journal, so that once I receive and post your story, I will be able to make it accessible to you and only you for a final look before the reveal at midnight on the 24th.
Identities will be seekrit for a week--on New Year's Eve, I'll attach names to stories.
That's it for now. Any questions, please ask. Suggestions are always welcome!
helmine! Assignments will go out tomorrow. I'm waiting on clarification from a couple of folks, but most of the assignments are made and ready to go out the door.
In the meantime, some info about how assignments were made, how they will be communicated to you, and how to proceed once you receive yours:
You will each receive an email from me by midnight tomorrow. In the email I will identify your story recipient, and will give you verbatim the information they provided to me about the kind of story they want.
Your Assignment
For the most part, I made assignments based on articulated first preferences (as much as I could determine from the emails I received). That is, I tried to match your first preference on the kind of story you wanted to write with someone else's first preference on the kind of story they wanted to receive. HOWEVER, you are not required to write stories based on stated first preferences: the only requirement is that the story fit one of the recipient's stated requests, and that the story not contained any material specifically vetoed by the recipient. Given that, you are standing in for Santa--try to make the story one the recipient will enjoy receiving!
You are getting instructions from the recipient verbatim: I will simply cut and paste the instructions I received into the email to you. If you are confused by anything the recipient has requested, DO NOT CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY TO RESOLVE THE CONFUSION. This would obviously defeat utterly the seekrit part of this exercise. Email any questions you have to me, and I will communicate with the recipient and try to get the information you want.
It's a Seekrit
For the same reason, please refrain from posting details about your assignment in your livejournal or any other public place. Pairings in particular should not be identified, unless the pairing is Fraser/Kowalski, in which case the field is heavily populated enough to prevent anyone from figuring out anything specific.
Deadlines and Formatting
Deadline for stories is midnight on December 19th. At that time, if you don't deliver your story, and the story written for you is easily substituted for the story you failed to deliver, I will feel absolutely no guilt in making a substitution. If a substitution cannot be made, I will contact those of you who volunteered to help out in this situation to see if you can put together something in the week before the reveal.
Stories should be delivered to me appropriately coded for a livejournal entry: html or rich text. I haven't figured out all of the ins and outs of this, but the tentative plan is that I will set up 28 separate friends groups for the
ds_seekritsanta journal, so that once I receive and post your story, I will be able to make it accessible to you and only you for a final look before the reveal at midnight on the 24th.Identities will be seekrit for a week--on New Year's Eve, I'll attach names to stories.
That's it for now. Any questions, please ask. Suggestions are always welcome!
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