Secret Santa Short Story Contest

[Skippy]

Semi-agreed. I'll still be participating myself, as I think plenty of these prompts are fun, but I really do not like how very fandom-specific a couple of the submitted ones are and I really hope I don't end up getting randomly assigned one of the fandomy prompts.

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As much as I hate to be a Grinch, the guy above me is somewhat right. (Edit: the guy two posts above me) There are some prompts where I feel like some people just want to read a fanfic without actually writing it.

I still encourage everyone to participate, though! I really like some of the prompts I've seen so far! Special mention goes to my old friend Realm and that one about the timeless dragon.

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I agree about the fandom-specific prompts, but I wasn't planning on letting it get in the way too much. If I don't know the fandom or characters I'll just get creative with them and the concept, and if someone was hoping for a fanfic they won't get exactly that.

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Wait, shit? I haven't been looking at prompts for Secret Santa reasons; I thought it was heavily implied they shouldn't be fandom specific?

Ugh. I don't think I could write for a fandom I wasn't a fan of. Or at least vaguely acquainted with.

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I wasn't gonna say anything but yeah, I'm not thrilled about the fandom prompts either. Seems kind of inconsiderate to potentially make someone dig through fandom wikis just to know what their supposed to be writing about if they want to participate properly.

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I've been looking at the prompts (because it doesn't ruin the fun for me), and there are a few fandom ones posted that are for fandoms I know literally nothing about, I thought the deal with writing prompts was to create something that others could easily leap off of to create something- fanfic prompts sort of just don't do that. I wrote my prompt to have a lot of directions for whoever writes it to take it in, I thought that leaving them open ended was how writing prompts are supposed to work.

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I would almost even like to request that fandom-specific prompts be disregarded for the purposes of this event? I feel like I'm making too big of an ask with that, but at the same time – I want to try and create a fun bit of fiction using a prompt, I don't want to write your fucking fanfiction for you!!!!

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Taking into consideration the feedback here, and having honestly not considered that people would submit prompts set in a particular setting or the issues that might cause, I think this raises a pertinent issue. Whilst of course I love the enthusiasm from those who submitted fandom-specific prompts, I agree that it may make things a bit hard for other participants who receive those prompts and have no familiarity with the setting in question. This is worth amending the rules, I think.

Shortly I will edit the OP to make things clear, and PM the participants who submitted fandom-specific prompts and give them the opportunity to submit or edit in a new one. Apologies for the disruption everyone!