Rudolph the red-nosed dentist

[heavensqueen]

Writing post : http://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/6728.html

Other useful links:
2016 Timeline : https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/28822.html
Collection: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2016

 

Letters post: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274815.html
Letters DB: http://www.dennis-sellers.com/yuletide/index.html
Treat spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10Bv9vJXykH9BUgn6q5DIBliBgMWzlVpXiB9d1lNoub4/edit?usp=sharing

Yuleporn: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1276881.html
Crueltide: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1274987.html
Two for One: http://yuletide.livejournal.com/1278973.html

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Tangentially related but I've been curious for a while: how much do ya'll edit your fics after posting something to meet the hard deadline?

[(Anonymous)]

Usually I try to have everything in final form by the posting deadline so any editing after that is just if I notice anything that needs tweaking. This year though I finished my first draft late enough that my beta can't look at it till post deadline. So I guess this year I might be making some substantial edits, depending on what my beta recommends...

[(Anonymous)]

I suck at editing. Normally I want to not even look at the fic anymore for at least a few months after I wrote "the end", but I force myself to go through it one time and afterwards send it off to my beta. If the deadline is close, I might upload before that final read-through and betaing, but no sooner than that.

[(Anonymous)]

Absolutely heaps.

[(Anonymous)]

No big substantial changes, just minor wording tweaks. (But zillions of them.)

[(Anonymous)]

My fics generally at least double in length between the deadline and reveals.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I change almost everything.

What I upload at the deadline is a complete story - but most of the time not the version of the story I wanted it to be.

[(Anonymous)]

Not much, generally. I try to only post the fic at the point where if I were hit by a truck and unable to do more editing, my recip wouldn't be able to tell.

[(Anonymous)]

The hard deadline is reveals, imo. Does that answer your question?

[(Anonymous)]

Usually I do pretty substantial edits, but last year it jumped over 20,000 words in length between deadline and reveals. I...was cutting it close. No wiggle room, no beta time, no regrets--it was totally worth it.

[(Anonymous)]

I need to proofread to catch typos, since I write in Google Docs and sometimes the spellcheck function is weird. Like it underlines "really" and wants me to replace it with "very," but won't tell me when I have the wrong ie/ei.

Often I go in and update dialogue or add narration into a dialogue only part. But generally I don't have to majorly redo the story. It takes me a while to think of ideas so once I'm on a track I'm unlikely to come off it.

[(Anonymous)]

Very little. I'll smooth clunky-sounding lines of dialogue, or maybe add a sentence or two to make something more clear, but that's it.

[(Anonymous)]

I always post a complete draft, that I've gone through and edited and slept on and edited again. This year, like most years, I'm still waiting to hear back from a beta. The changes are generally minor, although there was one year when I ended up completely re-writing two scenes based on my beta's feedback.

[(Anonymous)]

Usually not much, just whatever typos I catch. This year, I only got it to my beta tonight, so . . . we'll see!