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

[isis]

I didn't tag my story Dark Agenda (but did tag it Character of Color). It's a story set in a source fandom about black African people written by a white African man (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency), and even though I was writing a culture not my own, I was doing so from the perspective of the original author, rather than of the actual characters (that is, I attempted to pastiche the original, rather than write a genuinely Botswana-based story), and it just didn't feel to me as though it really answered the challenge. I mean, I wasn't writing in a source in which all the characters are CoC because I wanted to reach out of my tiny white Jewish female box - I wrote in a source that I love, and it just happens that all the characters are CoC.

As far as "tips and tricks" go, I found suitable names for my original characters by looking up the Botswana football teams.