Prompts on their way, and Dear Writer posts

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Eager writers, your wait is almost over! Soon you’ll receive your prompts and can begin creating some delicious Summergen fic. Remember, you must respond to the e-mail we send you with your prompts, letting us know you received them. We are in the process of sending out prompts now, so watch your e-mail!

Some of you had a lot to say in your submission form. Some of you might like to say more to the person who’s going to write your fic. I encourage everyone to write a Dear Writer post on your own journal to that end. It’s not required, but your writer will appreciate it. You can thank your writer for working with your prompts, give them more information about what you like and don’t like, and say anything else you forgot to say or didn’t have a slot for on your submission form.

There are links in the comments on this post to Dear Writer letters from last year, if you’re new to this and would like to see examples. It goes without saying, but be polite to your writer in your letter—they’re making you a gift, after all! Also keep flexibility in mind—if you have too many rules or too many passionately stated dislikes, your writer might feel a bit paralyzed by them. Positivity is a plus.

I will make a Dear Writer link-post once all prompts are out. Comment there with a link to your Dear Writer letter.

Refer to this post for more information about writing from prompts.

With 90 participants (NINETY! Go fandom; give yourselves a wild, whooping ovation!) matching is a bit of a challenge, but brightly_lit is doing the matching and she has mad skillz, so I think y’all have a pretty good chance of being inspired by your prompts.

If you don’t love your prompts, first of all, don’t post about it publicly. (Just think how the person who wrote those prompts would feel if they saw your complaints!) Secondly, give it a little time and try to think creatively about how you might work with them, and with the recipient’s likes and dislikes. Remember, you can interpret prompts loosely; you don’t have to follow them to the letter. As we’ve said before, it’s more about embracing your creativity, and not writing something your recipient will hate, than it is an attempt to create the perfect story for them. We all love Supernatural, and we’re sharing that love here, and that’s what matters!

If you’re truly sure you can’t work with your prompts, e-mail us as soon as possible at supernaturalsummergen @ gmail .com (without the spaces). There are options.

Have fun, everyone! :-)