Life is an occasion - Rise to it

Disclaimer: These are my thoughts, based on the Yuletide FAQ and several years of participation. Your mileage may vary, please keep your tentacles inside the ride at all times. Do not disturb the hippos, etc.

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Upon scanning over some of the optional details and additional requests, I have noticed a few trends. Some of them are no doubt due to new people who aren’t as familiar with the rules and limitations of the Yuletide exchange, but the trends are strong enough that I felt a few things ought to be cleared up.

Optional details are optional.

Yuletide matches you on the fandom offered/requested and the specific characters chosen (or ‘any’ if you were brave enough to go that route).

That's it - and that's where your writer's responsibility ends. A lot of them choose to attempt to meet the optional details, but... they are Optional. That's on the part of the writer, as well as the requester.

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Three carefully blurred pages of editing from a story I'm really enjoying and where I think the author is unmistakeably talented.

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Because work has been totally kicking my ass the last few weeks and will be until November. I need to relax. The thought of this completely amuses me because, well, I'm mentally unstable at the best of times.

Stolen from bikun

Give me a character or pairing (that I'm familiar with) and a word, and I will write you one line of fic here.

I reserve the right to write total gibberish if the mood moves me. Feel free to make anonymous comments. I'll unscreen them so they can be seen.

Edit: And because I suck, I've done six, seven, nine, ten eleven and not managed to stop at a single sentence yet. *growls* Help!