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Yuletide Dear Writer Letters 2015
Yuletide letters are an optional, but traditional, part of Yuletide.
When you sign up to Yuletide, you will pick between 3 and 6 fandoms to request. On the sign-up form, you can also enter some prompts for each of these fandoms. In past eras, this Optional Details box was smaller, so if you wanted to go on about your chosen fandoms at length, you had to do it elsewhere. Now, you can enter a large number of prompts in the sign-up form. Many people stick to that, and don’t write a letter. But many people still write letters. Writing a Yuletide letter makes your prompts more visible. It gives people some idea of what’s being requested in the fandom before they offer to write it, and it (somewhat) increases your chance of treats, as prompts are not otherwise available in public until late December.
If you want tips on how to write a letter, try Yuletide IRC chat, or the recent general-questions posts on DW and on LJ, or just browse other people’s letters and think about whether they would be helpful to you as a writer.
To announce your letter to the Yuletide community at large, please comment to this Dreamwidth post or to the parallel post on LiveJournal, in the following format:
AO3 name
Link to your letter
Another link if your letter is in more than one place
Fandom name
Fandom name
Fandom name
You can have 3, 4, 5, or 6 fandom names - that is the number of possible requests this year.
Please use the 2015 tag set as a guide to formatting each fandom name.
Please keep this list simple - don’t bother with bullet points or dashes.
Please do NOT link an placeholder or a locked letter. We won’t tabulate those until they’re available.
Corrections
If you need to correct your details, please reply to or edit your comment, AND post a reply to the correction comment, one of the first under the post.
There is a google spreadsheet of letters here. Please be patient with me and other volunteers as we get into the rhythm of updating it.
louisedennis has also kindly offered to make a database out of the letters. This version is likely to be more easy to access overall, especially for people on mobile devices.
If your letter isn’t done yet, don’t panic. We will keep adding letters to the spreadsheet whenever you comment. I strongly recommend finishing your letter before 1 November, because otherwise, your writer will be waiting to see it instead of starting on their story for you.
However, that’s only if you’re writing a letter. However traditional, they are still optional. Don’t write one if you don’t want to.
Enjoy!
ETA: Thank you very much to TLvop, molybdomantic, jaclynhyde, and Isis, who are helping to update the spreadsheet.
This post on LJ
When you sign up to Yuletide, you will pick between 3 and 6 fandoms to request. On the sign-up form, you can also enter some prompts for each of these fandoms. In past eras, this Optional Details box was smaller, so if you wanted to go on about your chosen fandoms at length, you had to do it elsewhere. Now, you can enter a large number of prompts in the sign-up form. Many people stick to that, and don’t write a letter. But many people still write letters. Writing a Yuletide letter makes your prompts more visible. It gives people some idea of what’s being requested in the fandom before they offer to write it, and it (somewhat) increases your chance of treats, as prompts are not otherwise available in public until late December.
If you want tips on how to write a letter, try Yuletide IRC chat, or the recent general-questions posts on DW and on LJ, or just browse other people’s letters and think about whether they would be helpful to you as a writer.
To announce your letter to the Yuletide community at large, please comment to this Dreamwidth post or to the parallel post on LiveJournal, in the following format:
AO3 name
Link to your letter
Another link if your letter is in more than one place
Fandom name
Fandom name
Fandom name
You can have 3, 4, 5, or 6 fandom names - that is the number of possible requests this year.
Please use the 2015 tag set as a guide to formatting each fandom name.
Please keep this list simple - don’t bother with bullet points or dashes.
Please do NOT link an placeholder or a locked letter. We won’t tabulate those until they’re available.
Corrections
If you need to correct your details, please reply to or edit your comment, AND post a reply to the correction comment, one of the first under the post.
There is a google spreadsheet of letters here. Please be patient with me and other volunteers as we get into the rhythm of updating it.
louisedennis has also kindly offered to make a database out of the letters. This version is likely to be more easy to access overall, especially for people on mobile devices.
If your letter isn’t done yet, don’t panic. We will keep adding letters to the spreadsheet whenever you comment. I strongly recommend finishing your letter before 1 November, because otherwise, your writer will be waiting to see it instead of starting on their story for you.
However, that’s only if you’re writing a letter. However traditional, they are still optional. Don’t write one if you don’t want to.
Enjoy!
ETA: Thank you very much to TLvop, molybdomantic, jaclynhyde, and Isis, who are helping to update the spreadsheet.
This post on LJ
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