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Dear Yuletide Writer: 2017
Yuletide letters are an optional, but traditional, part of Yuletide.
When you sign up to Yuletide (on AO3, beginning 1 October), you will pick between 3 and 6 fandoms to request. On the sign-up form, you can also enter prompts for each of these fandoms. Many people stick to that, and don’t write a letter. Many people choose to also write a letter, and put the link in the sign-up form. Writing a Yuletide letter makes your prompts more visible. It gives people some idea of what’s being requested in a fandom before they offer to write it, and it gives you space to talk at length about your likes and dislikes.
If you want tips on how to write a letter, try Yuletide IRC chat or Discord (invite link), or perhaps browse other people’s letters and think about whether they would be helpful to you as a writer.
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 October 15, 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. If you don't want to, you don't have to.)
To announce your letter to the Yuletide community at large, please comment to this Dreamwidth post or to the parallel post on LiveJournal.
To announce your letter to the Yuletide community at large, please comment to this Dreamwidth post or to the parallel post on LiveJournal.
Format & Posting
- Please make sure your letter is complete/unlocked before you comment.
- Please only comment to this post or the LJ mirror, not both. Commenting to both is confusing.
- Please use the 2017 tag set as a guide to formatting each fandom name.
- Please format your comment as below for the ease of the spreadsheeting team.
Comment Format:
AO3 name
Link to your letter
Another link if your letter is in more than one place
Fandom name
Fandom name
Fandom name
That is, please write it like:
triplesalto
https://triplesalto.dreamwidth.org/1954.html
The Crown (TV)
Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Ngaio Marsh
Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Spy Kids (Movies)
Doctor Who RPF
Political RPF - US 21st c.
NOT
AO3 name: triplesalto
Link to your letter: https://triplesalto.dreamwidth.org/1954.html
Fandom name: The Crown (TV)
Fandom name: Inspector Alleyn Mysteries - Ngaio Marsh
Fandom name: Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Fandom name: Spy Kids (Movies)
Fandom name: Doctor Who RPF
Fandom name: Political RPF - US 21st c.
Faster for you, and faster for the lovely spreadsheet volunteers copying it to the spreadsheet!
If you want to add your requested characters in your comment, please feel free! Just please write them below your AO3 name, letter link, and fandom names.
You can have 3, 4, 5, or 6 fandom names - that is the number of possible requests this year.
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. (If you have any technical issues/comments, that's the best place to post them as well.)
We highly encourage you to double-check your information once it's been entered on the spreadsheet.
Yuletide Links of Interest
The google spreadsheet is here. Thank you to wishandripen, Isis, and molybdomantic for helping keep it updated!
Our friendly neighborhood coding anon is adding DYW Letters to the one-page app that also contains the filterable tagset/character nominations with the option to bookmark individual fandoms OR individual letters. ♥
Additional thanks to Morbane for letting me copy & paste her DYW system pretty much verbatim and triplesalto for letting me use them as a test subject!
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