Author Reveals & Next Time

[morbane]

Authors are now visible for all stories. Here's the collection again: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/Jukebox2013

Thank you again for participating. I had a great time. I'm still reading through the collection.


I plan to run this challenge again, so I'd appreciate feedback, on what worked for you and didn't. (Anonymous comments are still enabled.)

Here are a couple of things I think I might change:

• The dates. This has run up closer to Yuletide than I was anticipating. I was also participating in hhertzof's Exchange at Fic Corner challenge, which hhertzof says she will run again next year in July-August-September. Because of this, I'm thinking of shifting Jukebox 2014 to February-March-April (ensuring the writing time doesn't overlap too much with Purimgifts) or April-May-June (though that overlaps a bit with Not Prime Time).


• The beta reading mailing list. I'm not sure that quite worked (thoughts, anyone?). Especially, it seems a bit silly for me to be playing relay like that when I'm in such a different time zone to most other people - I suspect it decreased, rather than increasing, efficiency. (I don't think this was a problem for pinch hitting, though, since I could decide when to send emails out.)


• What fanworks are included. Currently, I don't have a strong idea about how to include podcasts or fanvids - or whether these make sense to include. But I am interested in fanart. So, question: would other people be interested in either offering or requesting art fills for song prompts?


• The definition of a song. There are many discrete pieces of music without lyrics where the creators, performers, and audience can agree on the shape of the story being told. (Programmatic music being one branch of this.) Would you be interested in offering or requesting music of this type? And if you are, could you help me come up with an appropriate definition?



Other things I'd love to get discussion on: was writing for a song outside your comfort zone, or not? Did the song you wrote for remind you of other particular songs? (I ended up buying three songs in iTunes based on other people's nominations.) Are there un-filled prompts that you especially wish had been written as well?

Comments

[morbane]

Thank you very much! I'm glad that you'd like to do it again, circumstances allowing.

Shifting Jukebox back a month wouldn't help much, actually, as hh is also shifting her exchange back a month. But that would be plan C - to avoid Yuletide at least - if the other two don't work.

there are certainly several prompts I wish I had had (or have now, which I don't) time to write treats for - Me too.

I think we'll have to get seekingferret to put together a list for us of the kinds of songs he's thinking of. Because "interpret a song without lyrics" is a concept I keep bouncing off of, and then he keeps patiently explaining to me that it's not quite so abstract as all that.

I'm musically illiterate too. (Ironic, because my father's greatest passion is collecting music.) I also wrote for a song I had never heard of before signups! Two, actually. :) And I'm really sad I didn't have the time or the background knowledge to write another fic, which would also have been for a song that was new to me.

True about the beta mailing list and how who you get is just whoever puts your their hand up. It worked for me - broadcastdelay did a great job on the fic I sent out - but I can see how a post where different people offer their strengths and their contact details might be better in this circumstance. (I was prioritizing the goal of "everyone gets A beta", which I will scale back.)