Poll: Yuletide! Yay!

[thefourthvine]

I am very excited about yuletide, and I've been bouncing around like a crazed thing since I signed up. (This is the Anticipation phase of Yuletide. Yes, there are phases of Yuletide. Yes, I have actually written them down. I know, I know, so pathetic, but it's an important thing to me, okay? I was never that excited about the holidays as a kid, but as an adult, Yuletide makes me absolutely delirious with joy.)

Anyway. I deal with the Anticipation phase (This is actually Anticipation Part One, because sign-ups are still open. When they close, I will start hard-core Anticipation. It is dangerous to come within seven feet of me during that time.) in many ways, but in part by refreshing the requested fandoms list, so that I can admire the shiny numbers climbing ever higher. (Plus, this year, there is a festival of gold and green to admire there. You can even see how many people asked for and volunteered for a given fandom. It is the coolest thing ever!)

But the site went down briefly today. Suddenly, I had no outlet for my Yuletide glee. Hence, this poll.

And if any of you have friends listers who are also doing Yuletide, I'd love it if you'd point 'em over here, 'cause I don't know how many of my own friends listers are. (You all should, though. You get a story! In a tiny fandom of your choosing! And you can write a story that will make someone else's heart sing! And this year there is no qualifying requirement! Go, sign up, and then come back and take the poll!)

Yeah, yeah. 'Tis the season to abuse exclamation marks and the Create Poll function on LJ. Happy holidays!

[Poll #855532]

Comments

[cereta.livejournal.com]

I always offer a handful of "safe" fandoms, things I know I can write, and then one or two wild cards (a movie I've seen once, that kind of thing). I have a reasonable amount of confidence in my ability to come up with something given a prompt, and I like to challenge myself a little without panic. Mostly, I'm cautious when it comes to tone or style: with a few exceptions, I tend towards contemporary sources, or ones where the style is not a huge part of it. That's why I avoid Shakespeare, despite both knowing the source well and having ideas. It's the one cowardice I allow myself ;).

Mind you, I suspect I'll get the same fandom I've already written in twice, just because it happens like that.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

I always offer a handful of "safe" fandoms, things I know I can write, and then one or two wild cards (a movie I've seen once, that kind of thing).

*nods*

I tend to consider even a movie I've seen once a "safe" fandom, provided it has the style I'm most comfortable writing. (I know what I can write. And it involves dialog. And more dialog. A lot of my sign-ups were for movies, and I'm sure you can see why.)

I like to challenge myself a little without panic.

Okay, I'm sorry, but I might have to hate you. Because this suggests, to me, that panic is not a part of your regular Yuletide routine. In which case I am sick with envy. Hatred may be my only recourse.

*sad*

That's why I avoid Shakespeare, despite both knowing the source well and having ideas. It's the one cowardice I allow myself ;).

Oh my god yes. I know the source, and I have ideas for about half the plays, but I never, ever sign up for them. It seems like - I don't know. Like the Yuletide equivalent of standing on the battlement saying, "Is that all you can conjure, Saruman?" Anyway. I'm scared, and that's all there is to it, and so I give myself what I think of as the Shakespeare Out. (It doesn't help that a lot of the existing Shakespeare FF, both in fandom and out, is so brilliant. I mean, am I going to sign up for Hamlet? No, because of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.)

Mind you, I suspect I'll get the same fandom I've already written in twice, just because it happens like that.

Huh. Most people are saying they don't volunteer for fandoms they've written before. I was feeling rather outre for offering one of the two fandoms I've already written - I mean, I had an idea, so I went ahead and did it, but it seemed weird.

(And I have to say that I really hope you don't get Dark Tower again. Someday, I want you to write a Yuletide story I can actually read.)

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm sorry, but I might have to hate you. Because this suggests, to me, that panic is not a part of your regular Yuletide routine. In which case I am sick with envy. Hatred may be my only recourse.

Aww, if it makes you feel better, I do get my panicky moments when everyone else is posting their writing progress and I'm doing my yearly "I HAVE TOO MUCH TO DO BEFORE THANKSGIVING TO WRITE!!!" Mostly, though, I'm just kind if ridiculously susceptible to suggestion.

And I have to say that I really hope you don't get Dark Tower again. Someday, I want you to write a Yuletide story I can actually read.

I wrote Magnum last year! But yeah, I didn't offer it last year, and this year, I only offered very narrow parameters, mostly because I already have a story 1/4 written ;). I'd feel bad discussing it here, but everyone's gonna know it's me, anyway.