For what it's worth, we're making the following changes to the het swap:
Around about autumn sometime, there will be some sort of a pre-swap fic event. If someone has interest in the swap fic, they must partake in the pre-swap event (which will be a drabble/ficlet/if you really want to write something longer go ahead but the het swap thing is limited to 2-5 thousand words anyhow) and complete something for it.
Previous successful participants of the swap are allowed to join up again without going through the pre-swap event. People can do the pre-swap who have no intention of doing the real swap. However, the beta participants aren't held to that; they get to play whether they've done one before or not (so far, knock on wood, we've never had trouble with a beta not fulfilling their duties).
We're going to make it a much, much earlier deadline for stories to be submitted. Something like, December 1st. So that those who need to be reserve writers have time to do it, and so people aren't rushing to finish their fics while they're wrapping presents or baking that last batch of Christmas cookies or feeding reindeer or calling 911 because some fat guy in a red suit is stuck in the chimney or whatever it is people end up doing while rushing through their fics at the last minute.
So... question on the above... would regular writers still get to be in the reserve writers pool, or would they need to choose one or the other?
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Date: 2007-02-04 06:54 am (UTC)Around about autumn sometime, there will be some sort of a pre-swap fic event. If someone has interest in the swap fic, they must partake in the pre-swap event (which will be a drabble/ficlet/if you really want to write something longer go ahead but the het swap thing is limited to 2-5 thousand words anyhow) and complete something for it.
Previous successful participants of the swap are allowed to join up again without going through the pre-swap event. People can do the pre-swap who have no intention of doing the real swap. However, the beta participants aren't held to that; they get to play whether they've done one before or not (so far, knock on wood, we've never had trouble with a beta not fulfilling their duties).
We're going to make it a much, much earlier deadline for stories to be submitted. Something like, December 1st. So that those who need to be reserve writers have time to do it, and so people aren't rushing to finish their fics while they're wrapping presents or baking that last batch of Christmas cookies or feeding reindeer or calling 911 because some fat guy in a red suit is stuck in the chimney or whatever it is people end up doing while rushing through their fics at the last minute.
So... question on the above... would regular writers still get to be in the reserve writers pool, or would they need to choose one or the other?