Madness POLL

[snacky]

Hey folks! I had a couple of people suggest that instead of waiting for the week between the fic due date and reveals, I could open the prompts now and give people extra time to write treats.

This would mean that you'd have a longer time to write treats than just a Madness week. So it would work out for people who aren't fast writers (I count myself among those!) or people who didn't sign up for the exchange, but would still like to participate.

I envision it like this:

I would reveal all prompts ASAP, people could chose a prompt to write in addition to their assignment. That's important: even if you choose another prompt (or multiple prompts) to treat, you still have to complete your assignment by the due date.

You don't have to participate. Madness and treats are never mandatory.

You don't have to be a participant in the regular exchange to write treats. You'd be writing a treat, but not receiving one.

People could write as many treats as they'd like, and multiple people could write the same prompts.

You could post any treats to the NFE Madness Collection. You'd still have that extra week to write, after all the stories are due, too, and both collections will be revealed on August 30th.


[Poll #2016790]

Thanks for voting! If you don't have an LJ account to vote with, you can comment and I'll take that into consideration!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a good idea, but is there a way indicate which prompts have been assigned? If I'm going to write a Madness story, I would rather make it for a prompt that hasn't been assigned.

[snacky]

Hmmm, I can't think of a way to do that, actually, since most people make multiple requests. With assignment matching, they're only matched on one of the requests, but if the assigned writer chooses, they can write any of them.

So I really wouldn't have a way of knowing which prompt is actually being written. It would be a little different in a multifandom exchange, where I would know what fandom they matched on, but in this one, sometimes people take elements of the multiple prompts to write their story.

Sorry about that!

[(Anonymous)]

And seeing as sometimes it's difficult to fit a broader idea into just one prompt, people may use the multiple requests to request basically the same thing... which is kind of what I've done.
So personally, I wouldn't mind two stories for the same request, seeing as I wasn't all that specific - and going by what I've seen of other people's "Dear NFE writer" posts, I suspect there are more people with broader, more non-specific requests. So it may not be such a problem.

And yes, please, more time for Madness would be awesome!

Marmota

[aurilly.livejournal.com]

I personally would love to get two stories for the same prompt! I leave the same prompts, word for word, in exchange after exchange, even if I've already received a story for them. No two people will approach it the same. I see it happen all the time in Yuletide, too, where people get two--sometimes three!--stories for the same prompt, and they're all different and all wonderful. I've been a writer in this scenario, too, and have loved seeing what the other person came up with.

[trans-element.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I think I'm confused about the way matching works, then. I made two offers, and I got matched to a recipient with two prompts. Does that mean that the recipient only made those two requests, and if the recipient had made more than two requests I would see all of the prompts, even if they didn't relate to either of my offers? Could I have been matched to a different recipient for one of the prompts?

[snacky]

Yes, it means that the recipient only made those two requests. Some people make five; if you had been matched to one of those people, you would see all five of them.

I no longer do the matching by hand (that was only when the NFE was run out of LJ), but use the automated matching from AO3, then I check just to make sure there are no egregious mismatches. In you case, I can't say exactly which prompt you matched on, since you had elements in both your offers, that matched elements in both your recipient's requests. Which can happen in this kind of smaller, single-fandom exchange.

As opposed to say, Yuletide, which is a bigger, multi-fandom exchange. In Yuletide, when you sign up, you request 3 or 4 small fandoms that you would like to receive a story in, along with characters in those fandoms (or you could do "any" characters), and you offer (at least) 3 small fandoms you can write in, along with the characters in those fandoms you'd like to write. THEN you're matched solely on the one fandom, and the characters you offered. Sometimes you luck out and get a recipient who has requested other fandoms you offer, but that's coincidence.

The matching on the one request/offer is more apparent in a multifandom exchange, as opposed to this one, where all your recipient's prompts will be for Narnia.

So technically you've only matched on the one prompt, but you have more flexibility than in a multifandom exchange with the prompts, in the sense that you're still writing a Narnia story. In the past, people have mixed and matched elements of the multiple prompts they receive.

I hope that clears it up a little?

[trans-element.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's a big help, thanks. This is the first fic exchange I've done (except for madness rounds), so I am totally ignorant!

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, change it! (I think my account got deleted way back)

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's a good idea, but is there a way indicate which prompts have been assigned? If I'm going to write a Madness story, I would rather make it for a prompt that hasn't been assigned.