Nominations are what you want to read? What you want to write? Are there prompts? WHAT?

[amanuensis1]

For some reason, I am incapable of understanding the way yuletide works.

Every year I mutter, "Maybe I should sign up for that," and every year I share my mutterings with people and am met with, "Oh, it doesn't work that way." So is there someone out there who, rather than saying, "The rules are distributed over these nineteen pages" can summarize the process in, say, something like three long bullet points of text stating, "Go here, do this, be sure not to do this, and your obligation will then be to do this by this time in this way"?

HELP MY TINY BRAIN.

Comments

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

You can request specific characters-- not pairings, just request that those characters appear-- and you can restrict your offer to specific characters. There's also an optional details section of the request, in which you can specify smut or gen, or give prompts, or even outline a whole plot, but writers are not bound to honor anything except the requested characters; the only hard-and-fast rule is that that the story has to be in on time, at least 1000 words, and must contain all the characters requested.

Of course, most people do honor their recipients' details, and even stalk their journals to find out what sorts of fic they like. But it's not required.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

the only hard-and-fast rule is that that the story has to be in on time, at least 1000 words, and must contain all the characters requested.

Oh, that's good to know!

I'm honestly more interested in the writing than the requesting, so it's not a problem in that direction.

[franzeska]

But the stalking is the good bit! Fie on people who don't have unlocked ljs! :-D