What's my counter mission, as Sydney Bristow would ask?

[selenak]

Yuletide! My actual assignment is a first for me: the person I was matched with only gave the fandom. Not any particular characters or prompts, and there is no Yuletide letter, either. So I guess this means any story within this fandom will do? Don't get me wrong, I can work with that. I love the source material, after all. It's just that in none of the ficathons I ever participated in did the recipient not even give the slightest hint about what type of story or subject within the fandom they want. Okay, not to self: freshen up knowledge of source material with a lookout for possible plots!

....Meanwhile, of course I read a lot of prompts in other people's letters from the last months and ended up writing a twenty pages saga as a treat for someone, currently off to be beta'd by a generous soul. That was fun, too.:)

Comments

[espresso_addict]

That seems to have happened to several people on my f'list this year -- I wonder if the challenge has expanded this year to encompass many people who haven't participated before?

[selenak]

I just discovered two more people in the same situation, and yes, that would be an explanation. My recipient certainly never participated in Yuletide before, so maybe she didn't know she CAN make specific requests.:)

[espresso_addict]

I posted an unofficial sign-ups closing reminder at yuletide, and got a few wonderfully clueless responses from those who seemed to think Yuletide was the official comm and I could miraculously help them out with their hours-after-sign-ups-officially-closed dilemmas.

[lonelywalker]

You could ask the mods to contact your recip to give you a better idea about characters, prompts, etc.