See--what makes me neurotic about prompts is rarely the prompt I get so much as the person I'm writing for.
I assume this is in smaller challenges than Yuletide, yes? Because in Yuletide, I don't even know my recipients, usually. Or my writers, for that matter. (I mean, I know the ones from previous years now, but they were unfamiliar to me when we were matched.) And if it is in Yuletide, wow. That's...kind of scary and impressive, that you're getting all these people you know.
I expounded on those things with my Secret Santa letter (it mostly boiled down to 'PLEASE no female-character bashing'), but now you've got me all worried because I didn't include that stuff in my prompts.
I think basically everyone checks the Santa letters, so you're good. Even if you were a pinch hit and your prompt was picked up, your writer probably still read your Santa letter; I read my pinch hit's. But, yeah, next year, since it's such a simple, basic thing, "no female character bashing, please" might be good to put right in the prompt, just to emphasize it a bit. But, really, no need to angst.
(Of course, now I'm angsting, wondering if I have ever committed female character bashing. Would I know? Or is this one of those things you don't know until they call a Fandom Intervention on you and start reading you (OMG TORTURE) chunks of your own stories?)
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I assume this is in smaller challenges than Yuletide, yes? Because in Yuletide, I don't even know my recipients, usually. Or my writers, for that matter. (I mean, I know the ones from previous years now, but they were unfamiliar to me when we were matched.) And if it is in Yuletide, wow. That's...kind of scary and impressive, that you're getting all these people you know.
I expounded on those things with my Secret Santa letter (it mostly boiled down to 'PLEASE no female-character bashing'), but now you've got me all worried because I didn't include that stuff in my prompts.
I think basically everyone checks the Santa letters, so you're good. Even if you were a pinch hit and your prompt was picked up, your writer probably still read your Santa letter; I read my pinch hit's. But, yeah, next year, since it's such a simple, basic thing, "no female character bashing, please" might be good to put right in the prompt, just to emphasize it a bit. But, really, no need to angst.
(Of course, now I'm angsting, wondering if I have ever committed female character bashing. Would I know? Or is this one of those things you don't know until they call a Fandom Intervention on you and start reading you (OMG TORTURE) chunks of your own stories?)