Hi lovelies, have a practical question. Sorry if it's already been explained but how do we send our little stories? Via pm? On the very day? Does everybody else get to read our akward try and error, too?

mrshouse, last year we sent our stories to Kerkerian via mail, but if you have a story that's only about 221 words long, I guess it's also possible to send it via pm. But I think that we all sent it in an e-mail to Kerkerian. And no, only the finished story gets published - and we had an extra thread only for the stories and discussed the stories in the thread where we also did the planning.

No, La Jolie, I thought about this again and I think I was mistaken before, because if I remember correctly it was the other way around last year: I knew who I was writing for, but I didn't know who got my prompt. And when Kerkerian posted the stories, she didn't mention who the author was.

SolarSystem wrote:

I knew who I was writing for, but I didn't know who got my prompt. And when Kerkerian posted the stories, she didn't mention who the author was.

I agree that that would be the best way to do it.

I think your questions are good. That should help with the matching. I would prefer a more broader environment for writer, but I like the idea with the additional prompt. But it shlouldn't be to restrictive. A few key words sounds ok for me.

Would it mess anything up if I ask you to take my name off the list?

It's just that my mental state is so flakey these days.  I don't want to commit and then dissapoint someone.

I"m sorry.   

@tonnaree: Of course it would not mess up things. I will take your name off the list, but there are still two weeks before thangs get serious. So if in ten day or so you feel like joining again, feel absolutely free to do so.

@BreathingIsBoring: You are welcome to join, but you don't have to takesomeone's spot. The more the merrier.

BTW Is there someone else out there who wants to join too?

Good morning!
I'll quickly put my five scents in before I'm off to work: considering that some of the participants are rather new to writing fanfic and that the word minimum is going to be 221 words (though I sincerely hope we won't have a lot of super short stories), I wouldn't advise using five words that have to appear. From personal experience, I know how difficult and even impossible that can be.

Have a nice day, y'all!
 

Yes, you can:
http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=3893

And please don't worry, mrshouse, the idea is certainly not to write perfect stories with which to win the Pulitzer. The fic I wrote last year was my very first Sherlock fanfic ever, and although the prompt I got wasn't what I had expected at all, it was a lot of fun to write. That should be the main thing: having fun writing it, then everyone else will have fun reading it. I'm sure. 
If you want someone to have a look at the story before you give it to Schmiezi, you can always write me a PM. 

And if you want to know who wrote what last year, there is also a collection on AO3, though I'm not sure whether all stories are there.
http://archiveofourown.org/collections/Secret_Santa_2013
My favourite from last year is WhoLocked's "Message in a Bottle". It's a hilarious piece of Drunklock, all the more so because it was written before TSOT ever aired.


As for the prompts, I'd prefer it, too, if we didn't have any such formal requirements as "include these five words". I'd like to just write a Sherlock story, not labour through a Creative Writing 101 exercise. I mean, if anyone absolutely wants to put any formal requirements of this sort in their prompt, that's fine, but we shouldn't all have to have them.

Last edited by La Jolie (September 22, 2014 8:15 pm)

How about this:

Everybody gives one prompt. That can be five keywords OR an item they wants to appear in the fic OR a headline OR a part of the plot or whatever.

(I think that is basically like we did it last year, but could turn out to be more diversified now that we discussed the many possibilities.)