graycardinal | Fanfic Advent Calendar, Mark II (Reply)

Because I am feeling insane, and can all too rarely resist a challenge -- we'll make another try at this:

Herewith the Fanfic Advent Calendar, Mark II (concept and rules-template cheerfully adapted from cadhla):

What's that?
An advent calendar counts down the days from December 1st to Christmas in some fashion. Mostly I've just seen the ones that involve opening little tiny cardboard doors to find the chocolate surprise inside. The fanfic equivalent, pioneered by the above-mentioned and scarily prolific cadhla, involves producing a flashfic daily starting on December 1 and concluding on Christmas Eve. (Yes, we're also working on yuletide stories...why do you ask?)

Flashfic is essentially short fiction -- as little as a paragraph, as much as a page -- that isn't constrained by the precise word count that makes a drabble a drabble. [A salute to mtgat here, who rightly pointed this out the first time I tried this.] Basically, it's a way of staying short and sweet while giving oneself a little room to play around.

Oh, neat!
Why, thank you.

What fandom?
Multi-fandom. As long as I know it, it's fine.

Uh...how does that work?
Every day will have a fandom, a title, and a character or pairing. These will (we hope) be taken from the comments on the previous day. Things need to have a holiday theme; this is, after all, a countdown to Christmas.

So if I comment first, I can tell you what to write?
Not quite. Whatever is suggested has to interest me, and it has to be in a fandom I know. (I have just now updated my Interests list to include fandoms that weren't there before. However, the list is not necessarily exhaustive, particularly for older TV -- both live and animated -- and for literary fandoms, although I write some of those pretty sparingly. So feel free to suggest things even if they're not on the Interests lists....) I'll go back over the previous day's comments when I get ready to write the next day's entry, and work from there. I won't go back more than a single day unless a day receives zero comments -- that means that you need to comment again if you want me to consider your suggestion for the next day, and so on.

How are you doing the first one?
By looking at any comments I get on this entry, of course. [Or, if necessary, by punting.]

Can I do this, too?
By all means! Just let me know, so I can wander over and...suggest...things. Heh. Heh. Heh.

Game on!