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.

[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.

[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.

[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.