Yuletide indecision
Nov. 5th, 2009 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskylerOkay, I am seriously considering going for Yuletide this year. If I do it, I want to:
a) consider my story a gift to the recipient -- to really try to write them a story that I think they will like, not just write the story that I most want to write out of the options the recipient presents; and
b) consider it a writing challenge, and go into it knowing that I may be stretched as an author.
However, as someone who writes almost entirely G-rated fic and doesn't do a lot of shippy stuff, not even Doctor/Sarah (although I did have them briefly kiss once, wow, how extreme am I), I'm a little worried about fulfilling possible het and slash requests. I sorta kinda get the impression that it's pretty common for people to request het and/or slash, and I just don't know if I can write it. I'm not just talking about bowing out of writing anything adult-rated, which I'm assuming would be pretty acceptable to the community; I mean that I don't know if I can write a romantic pairing at all.
Anyone out there who's done Yuletide have experience with this? I know that optional details are optional, and I also know that this could be the challenge part of the Yuletide challenge for me, but I'm wondering what the odds are of pleasing someone with genfic. Any guesses?
a) consider my story a gift to the recipient -- to really try to write them a story that I think they will like, not just write the story that I most want to write out of the options the recipient presents; and
b) consider it a writing challenge, and go into it knowing that I may be stretched as an author.
However, as someone who writes almost entirely G-rated fic and doesn't do a lot of shippy stuff, not even Doctor/Sarah (although I did have them briefly kiss once, wow, how extreme am I), I'm a little worried about fulfilling possible het and slash requests. I sorta kinda get the impression that it's pretty common for people to request het and/or slash, and I just don't know if I can write it. I'm not just talking about bowing out of writing anything adult-rated, which I'm assuming would be pretty acceptable to the community; I mean that I don't know if I can write a romantic pairing at all.
Anyone out there who's done Yuletide have experience with this? I know that optional details are optional, and I also know that this could be the challenge part of the Yuletide challenge for me, but I'm wondering what the odds are of pleasing someone with genfic. Any guesses?
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:45 pm (UTC)I can't imagine someone not being pleased to get a fic written by you. And with your mistrust of prompts and deadlines, that's a gift indeed you're making.
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Date: 2009-11-08 05:53 am (UTC)Wow, that's possibly the nicest thing anyone has ever said about my writing. Thank you! Seriously, though, tastes differ, and I'm sure there are plenty of people out there who dislike my writing. Which is totally fine when it's all a matter of taste. I feel more guilty when it's a matter of "I wanted sexy slash/het and you didn't give it to me" . . . but then again, if I tried to give it to them, they still wouldn't be pleased because it would be crap. I just don't see myself as successfully writing the sexy. Not even teen-rated sexy. It's just . . . "wonky," as
I think the prompts are a mix of enough different things, looking through what was left, you should be okay.
That seems to be the consensus, which is very reassuring. And I know I can always play the "optional" card, and hopefully the recipient will be happy even if they don't get exactly what they asked for.
And with your mistrust of prompts and deadlines, that's a gift indeed you're making.
Don't think that doesn't terrify me! But the timing works out very well for me this year, and I figure if I don't do it now, I never will. And so many people talk about what a great experience it is, I'd like to say I did it once. No promises after that, though! : )