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[labellementeuse]

So guise, I had a really super time doing yuletide this year, and I really can't wait to show y'all what I wrote. But I had such a good time I'm also thinking about maybe doing some NYR challenges, but I know I won't do them unless I have a reason to. What do y'all thinking about someone running a structured-ish NYR challenge, where you sign up and have to do 1 NYR fic a month, every month? (maybe with the option to opt out at the beginning of the month if you know it's not going to be a good one.) Is anyone already doing something similar? Should I spam yuletide in the middle of all the rec posts and see what other people think? Would you play if I did do it? (There wouldn't even be a word limit... *tempts*)

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[everysecondtuesday]

Ooo, this sounds like it would be a lot of fun to try. I'd already planned to write a few, and they are all so tempting! I might wait a few days to post to Yuletide, just because I know there are people who've taken it off their reading list during the initial recs rush who might also want in on it.

(I wandered in from the Yuletide tag feed, if you're wondering how I got here.)

[senri.livejournal.com]

you know my answer B)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

<333 best enabler ever.

[morbane.livejournal.com]

Gods. Yuletide looks MASSIVE. Is it as terrifyingly massive as it looks? What does this fan community do for the rest of the year?

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

It is indeed hugenormous, with over 2000 people participating this year! You should check out this year's fic (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide/fandoms), in fandoms as diverse as "12th century Real Person Fic", Gilbert & Sullivan, Tamora Pierce... name it, someone probably wrote it for Yuletide.

OTOH, it's a bit of a misnomer to call yuletide a fan community. Yuletide is a huge exchange for rare fandoms, but it tends to be participated in by people from diverse fannish backgrounds - so you have me, whose primary fandom is a yuletide fandom (Young Wizards) but who also reads in a bunch of non-Yuletide fandoms, but you also have people whose primary fandom is, say, a big one like Stargate Atlantis but who does Yuletide to get A Dog's Breakfast fic, or someone like my friend Aria who's a fannish serial monogamist who moves from fandom to fandom, of whatever size, but who does Yuletide every year anyway. And you also have people who only do yuletide - in terms of writing fic, I'm a bit like that! But there are fans out there who don't really do any reading or writing except in Yuletide, who aren't interested in participating in fannish circles in other ways. &c. So basically, the rest of the year Yuletide participants do a lot of other things, and all come together in a touching, festive miracle for Yuletide!

[morbane.livejournal.com]

So then, what fanfiction activities do you usually concentrate on yourself, during the rest of the year? Do you focus on particular communities for Duane stuff, or what?

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

this sounds interesting, but i'm clearly missing some of the lingo - what is NYR?

[trialia]

*shifty eyes*

Well, I wrote for Yuletide Madness... I'm interested in knowing if you can guess what I wrote. XD

[the_antichris.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be interested in something like that, though possibly deciding month-by-month if I was doing one. I wrote something in a fandom I would *never* have tackled on my own, and it was surprisingly fun!