To be honest, in my sad sad sadness about Yuletide I have been thinking of searching out someone's Yuletide letter, trying to write for it and (if successful) dropping it on their LJ as a kind of Suprise Secret Santa. >> If the prompts are public or can be made public with no problems, why shouldn't people be able to sign up with no guarantee of writing?
Or, you know, divide the exchange into flakes and non-flakes, with the first part being between people who go "er, I'd like to write something but I can't guarantee I'll finish" and people who go "here, have a prompt, but I don't mind if it's not completed". It's... there *are* things you can do to make even exchange-based ficathons more open to people who can't guarantee a contribution, you just have to get away from mapping prompts-that-must-be-completed to writers bijectively one-to-one. And I will stop at this point because I want to talk about the mapping being non-injective/non-surjective which is getting way too mathematical for this audience. Oops.
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Date: 2009-11-01 04:12 pm (UTC)Or, you know, divide the exchange into flakes and non-flakes, with the first part being between people who go "er, I'd like to write something but I can't guarantee I'll finish" and people who go "here, have a prompt, but I don't mind if it's not completed". It's... there *are* things you can do to make even exchange-based ficathons more open to people who can't guarantee a contribution, you just have to get away from mapping prompts-that-must-be-completed to writers
bijectivelyone-to-one. And I will stop at this point because I want to talk about the mapping being non-injective/non-surjective which is getting way too mathematical for this audience. Oops.