Crouching Coalie Hidden Wanker

[heavensqueen]

Yeah, I know, I have one job here, and I fail at it

Assignments out by Sunday Oct 15
Default deadline Monday Dec 11
Assignment deadline Monday Dec 18

Letter Posts:
https://yuletide.livejournal.com/1304730.html

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/94925.html

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https://yuletide-coal.dreamwidth.org/8618.html?view=flat&page=1000

 

Comments

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Most Yuletide participants don't write any treats, though. Statistically speaking, the most common thing in Yuletide is to write your assignment (whether half- or whole-assed) and then that's it.

There were 166 people on the prolific writers list last year, which isn't even 10% of the number of people who signed up. The pool of treaters is relatively small, and the pool of people who half-ass their assignments and then write treats has to be a subset of that.

tl;dr The number of people who half-ass their assignments to write treats is almost certainly smaller than the number of people who half-ass their assignments and then do nothing.

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC the prolific writers list didn't include everyone who had written a treat, only those who wrote 3+ fics, so at least 2 treats.

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily that either. It's complicated by people who write multiple fics because they pick up pinch hits, too. It's possible some of them wrote multiple pinch hits and no treats.

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

True, but the whole "people half-ass their assignments so they can go write treats" seems to imply 2+ treats. I doubt there's many people half-assiing it to go write a single 20K treat.

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Or assignment + two pinch hits...

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

Yup - I was on the 'nice' list for a couple of years where I covered at least two pinch hits as well as my own assignment. Never actually written a treat (though this year may well be different!)

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Yes,this. Even when I want to write treats, I've usually done my assignment first and put everything I can into it - which varies from year to year. But sometimes I have treats on the go at the same time if I'm struggling with wordflow

Re: Noob Anxiety

[(Anonymous)]

There were 166 people on the prolific writers list last year, which isn't even 10% of the number of people who signed up.

Does that include socks and dentists?