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Summergen Assignments
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spn_summergen will be going out this weekend. I'll be sending the emails out in batches over Saturday and Sunday. A new post will be made in this community once all assignments have gone out. Please don't contact the mods asking where your assignment is until after that post goes up.
We've got 54 participants this year. Welcome and thank you to all those taking part in Summergen for the first time!
The assignment email will tell you who your recipient is, what her prompts are and give you a link to her journal.
About the matchups: The matching is done based mostly on positives, not negatives. That is, I look at what you've said you can do, not what you say you can't. This does not mean you won't receive a prompt or two for characters or genres you didn't include. I wish it were possible to give everyone a perfect match for their offerings and prompts, but it's not. I lost count of the number of times this year I thought I had a perfect match, only to find I was trying to give someone their own prompts! You should recieve at least two prompts that match what you offered to write.
Some prompts are very short and cryptic. Where a short prompt doesn't specify a genre, I haven't made assumptions. Where a long prompt doesn't specify a genre, I've used my best guess but your interpretation of the prompt might be very different from mine.
Other prompts are pretty detailed. In these cases, I've tried to match character and time more than genre, on the understanding that the writer who gets it could choose to take the prompt in a different direction from what the promptee intended. You can also put your own spin on many prompts: a prompt for a casefic, for example, could be written as hurt/comfort, darkfic, comedy, angst, deathfic...anything that might blend well with the case.
( Some advice for when you receive your prompts )
( Any questions? )
Most of all, if you get a prompt set you dislike or can't work with, I beg you not to post publicly about it. Think how your recipient will feel if she sees a post like that. If I've screwed up a match-up, it's MY fault. Complain to ME. I can't guarantee I'll be able to help, but you might not be the only one. Sometimes I can arrange a trade.
( If you need help )
( Pinch-hitters )
Rules, Schedule and FAQ
spn_summergen will be going out this weekend. I'll be sending the emails out in batches over Saturday and Sunday. A new post will be made in this community once all assignments have gone out. Please don't contact the mods asking where your assignment is until after that post goes up.We've got 54 participants this year. Welcome and thank you to all those taking part in Summergen for the first time!
The assignment email will tell you who your recipient is, what her prompts are and give you a link to her journal.
About the matchups: The matching is done based mostly on positives, not negatives. That is, I look at what you've said you can do, not what you say you can't. This does not mean you won't receive a prompt or two for characters or genres you didn't include. I wish it were possible to give everyone a perfect match for their offerings and prompts, but it's not. I lost count of the number of times this year I thought I had a perfect match, only to find I was trying to give someone their own prompts! You should recieve at least two prompts that match what you offered to write.
Some prompts are very short and cryptic. Where a short prompt doesn't specify a genre, I haven't made assumptions. Where a long prompt doesn't specify a genre, I've used my best guess but your interpretation of the prompt might be very different from mine.
Other prompts are pretty detailed. In these cases, I've tried to match character and time more than genre, on the understanding that the writer who gets it could choose to take the prompt in a different direction from what the promptee intended. You can also put your own spin on many prompts: a prompt for a casefic, for example, could be written as hurt/comfort, darkfic, comedy, angst, deathfic...anything that might blend well with the case.
( Some advice for when you receive your prompts )
( Any questions? )
Most of all, if you get a prompt set you dislike or can't work with, I beg you not to post publicly about it. Think how your recipient will feel if she sees a post like that. If I've screwed up a match-up, it's MY fault. Complain to ME. I can't guarantee I'll be able to help, but you might not be the only one. Sometimes I can arrange a trade.
( If you need help )
( Pinch-hitters )
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Rules, Schedule and FAQ
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