BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Secret Santa 2018?

**Posted by Yitzock** November 4, 2018 2:40 pm

Yes, indeed!

So our participants are:
-SusiGo
-Kirkerian
-Schmiezi
-gently69
-nakahara?
and myself.

If there's anyone else, speak now. Otherwise, I'm thinking we should start on the questionnaires this week. Any final thoughts before we finalize it?

**Posted by nakahara** November 5, 2018 3:37 pm

Yes, count me in, please.

**Posted by Yitzock** November 5, 2018 5:19 pm

Awesome!

Last edited by Yitzock (November 5, 2018 8:42 pm)

**Posted by Yitzock** November 6, 2018 1:48 pm

OK. If we've got our list of participants and nobody has any other questions or comments then I will send out the questionnaires in the next 24 hours. Is a week long enough to think and filp them out?

**Posted by Kerkerian** November 6, 2018 8:00 pm

I'd say yes, it is.
Thank you for doing it!

**Posted by nakahara** November 7, 2018 7:42 am

It´s OK with me too.

**Posted by Yitzock** November 7, 2018 2:52 pm

OK. I have sent out the questionnaires to all of you who are participating.

**Posted by Kerkerian** November 7, 2018 6:46 pm

Thank you!

**Posted by gently69** November 15, 2018 8:18 am

Hi everyone
I was ill the last days so I answered the questionnaire just now.
But only one day of delay.
So we stick with a limit of 1.000 words?

**Posted by Yitzock** November 15, 2018 3:23 pm

I think that is what we are sticking with, unless anyone has any objections?

Anyway, now that I have received all the questionnaires I will start working on the matchmaking process. I will do my best to do that and send out your prompts before the weekend. Do you all think a month from when you get the prompts is long enough to write a short fic?

**Posted by SusiGo** November 15, 2018 7:31 pm

For me it should work. And now I hope very, very much to get a prompt that matches the idea I have been pondering for quite some time.

**Posted by Kerkerian** November 15, 2018 7:45 pm

Works for me as well. Hopefully. *nudges muse*

**Posted by gently69** November 16, 2018 7:04 am

Hopefully it works for me as well.

**Posted by nakahara** November 16, 2018 10:59 am

Works for me just fine too.

**Posted by Yitzock** November 16, 2018 3:15 pm

SusiGo wrote:
For me it should work. And now I hope very, very much to get a prompt that matches the idea I have been pondering for quite some time.

No pressure, though, right?

**Posted by Yitzock** November 16, 2018 4:05 pm

All right, I have sent out all the prompts (I call them that, though it's basically just the questionnaire of the person you will be writing for). I hope you will be happy with them.

Please do your best to finish your 1000-word or less story by December 16th. I was thinking of possibly extending that to December 20th, but let's see how we do with the one-month span.
Also, as you are writing it would be a great help to me if you put the BBCode for any italics, underlined, and bolded text so that I don't have to fix it later.

Happy writing!

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**Posted by Kerkerian** November 16, 2018 7:15 pm

Thank you! I'll do my best re the BB Code...
And have fun writing, everyone!

Last edited by Kerkerian (November 16, 2018 7:15 pm)

**Posted by Kerkerian** November 16, 2018 7:54 pm

PS: Strict 1000 word limit or give or a take a few?

**Posted by SusiGo** November 17, 2018 1:01 pm

Yitzock wrote:
SusiGo wrote:
For me it should work. And now I hope very, very much to get a prompt that matches the idea I have been pondering for quite some time.
No pressure, though, right?

It worked out fine, thank you so much.

**Posted by Yitzock** November 17, 2018 3:11 pm

Kerkerian wrote:
PS: Strict 1000 word limit or give or a take a few?

Give or take a few words is fine. I just wanted it to be manageable for writers so nobody feels pressured to write something really long if they don't have time.