The Lyric Wheel Cometh

[kerravonsen]

I did say that I'd run another Lyric Wheel in January-February, so I'd better do that; expect the proper announcement very soon. A few things to note and/or comment on:

- this is going to overlap with the RemixRedux ficathon. Sorry, can't help it, it's earlier this year than I thought.
- because Remix is increasing its word-count to 1000, I thought I'd decrease our word-count to 500. Is that okay with everyone?
- I'm hoping to start the sign-ups this week, the assignments next week, the due date 6 or 8 weeks from that. I'm inclined to make it 6 weeks, so that there's less overlap with Remix. After all 500 words in 6 weeks should be okay, even if you have another ficathon running, right?

(Edited to Add:) I'm also intending that people list fandoms they're interested in, so that I can do non-random matching this time. The idea is that participants will list fandoms they can write and fandoms they're interested in, and I will use that to try to match requests with writers. However, since I don't expect that many participants, it probably won't be possible to have perfect matches, so I also don't intend for writers to be compelled to write in the given fandoms, but it would be nice for them to try.

Comments

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

What exactly is a Lyric Wheel? I might play depending on what it is.

[kerravonsen]

Look here for the first Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel. It's basically a ficathon where the requests are song lyrics.
I didn't run one last year, I was too busy. But I want to try again this year, because it's fun!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Six weeks would put the due date sometime early in March, yes? Actually, I think that works well for me, as it staggers nicely with the UNIT and Remix ficathons, although I have no problem with eight weeks, either. And I'm always happy with a lower wordcount, being someone whose natural length barely deserves the word "length."

You know, I can come up with a short list of fandoms I'd really like to have, but a much, much longer one of fandoms that I'm at least familiar enough with to read fic in. Would it perhaps be helpful if people want to provide a prioritized list ("Here's the fandoms I'm cool with, in approximately this order of preference"), or do you think that would over-complicate things? I'm thinking it might be handy for the writer, even if not in the matching process.

[kerravonsen]

or do you think that would over-complicate things?

I think it would over-complicate things to require it in the sign-up, but if you want to include it as a note when you sign up, then your assignee can come back to the sign-up post and look at it if they want to.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Ooo. I may not have time....but on the other hand, I love lyric wheels. Count me in as a provisional participant.

[kerravonsen]

It should be easier to do this time, because the assignments won't be random.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Just realised I might be away when it's due. I suppose I could try to finish it before then and save it somewhere like Gmail so all I need to do is post it. I'll think about that.

[kerravonsen]

Note that for this ficathon, I intend to host all the stories, like I did for the last lyric wheel. So if you do manage to finish it early, you can just send it to me when you've finished it, and I'll take care of putting it up.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, that makes it easier!

[kerravonsen]

Have you decided whether or not to participate? Tomorrow is the last day for sign-ups...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've decided not to. I'm not that good at lyrics and I got sucked into another another ficathon due about the same time. :-P

[kerravonsen]

8-(
Oh well.
Have fun with the other ficathon.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's hard SF and I couldn't resist.