Post-reveal discussion

[dark_administrator]

We're thinking about this challenge and community, and what its future might look like, and to do that we'd like to know how the experience so far has been.

So now that authors are revealed, how did your participation in the Dark Agenda Challenge go?
What thoughts do you have about it?
How did it change your yuletide experience?
What suggestions would you have for your future self doing this next year (or next ficathon)?
Any tips and tricks you'd like to share with the rest of us? (Here's one - a good source for suitable character names is local newspapers from the region.)

What problems or frustrations did you have, either while writing, or tagging, or reading? What trends (disturbing or pleasant), did you you notice?

Would you do it again next year?

Comments

[eruthros]

I was wondering if there could be a Dark Agenda NYR challenge or similar, actually -- I acquired two sources specifically to write treats, but got them so late that it never happened for this year. (This was partly because signups and therefore yuletide letters went out late, I think, because I started looking for one of them basically on signup day!)

I also echo yhlee's comment about source familiarity -- I wonder if there could be a series of posts before nominations, even, for people to enthuse about their favorite chromatic sources?

[vehemently]

Concur, on the source-familiarity. I got pimped on a source, I consumed the source, I wrote a Yuletide story for it -- in my case, I saw the movie after the Yuletide noms/signups were complete, so it was a treat and not very lengthy. But I could see myself signing up to write it next year.

Pimping is great! Even when I don't remember the slightest thing about what was pimped about that particular source, if I run across it on (say) Netflix Instant View, the name will ring a bell, and that bell will push it up the queue closer to the top.