You should write a yuletide letter...
Oct. 28th, 2012 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiki_engYou should write a yuletide letter and it should include your character requests and optional details.
I know that some people who write a letter don't include them because it's something that they're putting together just for their assigned author, and they figure that they don't need to tell them the same stuff that they did in the sign-ups; their author already has that info. I think some people feel awkward making that information available to other people for whatever reason.
Please include that information; I will love you.
I love yuletide letters. I think they're awesome. I love reading what people write about the fandoms that they love a little or a lot and want fic in. I love reading people's general likes and dislikes. I love reading which characters it is that they want to see more of. I love reading those request details. I treat the yuletide letter collection post as a kind of joyous fannish art crawl. Having those details to read is great.
I haven't quite finished writing my own letter yet, but I did my sign-up today and then scrolled through the sign-up summary and proceeded to get progressively more excited. (Yuletide is awesome.) It was fantastic. I kept going yay, someone's asked for fic in *this* fandom, which eventually spiraled into these kind of wide excited eyes and going looking for a specific letter. I found the letter with that fandom on the spreadsheet, and it was great and kind of funny; I'm familiar with all of the fandoms they're requesting. (CLEARLY THEY ARE A PERSON OF EXCELLENT TASTE.) They like a lot of the things I like in fic. I would totally write a treat for this person if I didn't get matched to them (and my other fannish commitments don't eat me). This is the point at which I started making a frankly ridiculous face of woe at my computer because they didn't include all of their sign-up info in their letter.
So, please, if you haven't copied and pasted those details into your letter, do. It puts everything in one place for your assigned author, it means that people can write treats, and that there's a little bit more info out there about your rare fandom.
Please.
I know that some people who write a letter don't include them because it's something that they're putting together just for their assigned author, and they figure that they don't need to tell them the same stuff that they did in the sign-ups; their author already has that info. I think some people feel awkward making that information available to other people for whatever reason.
Please include that information; I will love you.
I love yuletide letters. I think they're awesome. I love reading what people write about the fandoms that they love a little or a lot and want fic in. I love reading people's general likes and dislikes. I love reading which characters it is that they want to see more of. I love reading those request details. I treat the yuletide letter collection post as a kind of joyous fannish art crawl. Having those details to read is great.
I haven't quite finished writing my own letter yet, but I did my sign-up today and then scrolled through the sign-up summary and proceeded to get progressively more excited. (Yuletide is awesome.) It was fantastic. I kept going yay, someone's asked for fic in *this* fandom, which eventually spiraled into these kind of wide excited eyes and going looking for a specific letter. I found the letter with that fandom on the spreadsheet, and it was great and kind of funny; I'm familiar with all of the fandoms they're requesting. (CLEARLY THEY ARE A PERSON OF EXCELLENT TASTE.) They like a lot of the things I like in fic. I would totally write a treat for this person if I didn't get matched to them (and my other fannish commitments don't eat me). This is the point at which I started making a frankly ridiculous face of woe at my computer because they didn't include all of their sign-up info in their letter.
So, please, if you haven't copied and pasted those details into your letter, do. It puts everything in one place for your assigned author, it means that people can write treats, and that there's a little bit more info out there about your rare fandom.
Please.
