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amanuensis1 ([personal profile] amanuensis1) wrote2008-10-21 08:39 pm
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Nominations are what you want to read? What you want to write? Are there prompts? WHAT?

For some reason, I am incapable of understanding the way [livejournal.com profile] 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.
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[personal profile] florahart 2008-10-22 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
To an extent: you can offer up to a certain number of characters you'll write (so as to not make the programming completely impossible). You will get at least one match of something you said you would write with one of the requests the requester made.

So, like, you offer to write the aforementioned Newsfic, Jesse's Girl, Scarecrow and Mrs King, Garfield, and Toy Story. You MIGHT get someone who requested four of those, and then you would be lucky and get to pick. Or, you might get someone who requested M*A*S*H*, Garfield, Stone Soup, and the Mary Tyler Moore Show. You COULD see the MTM prompt and go OH I like that even better! and write that even though it wasn't your match, but you would only be guaranteed one match, which you got.

[identity profile] amanuensis1.livejournal.com 2008-10-22 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's TERRIBLY valuable info; what a great illustration, thank you.