April 19th, 2020

Authors revealed!

  • Apr. 19th, 2020 at 11:30 AM
Authors have been revealed! Thank you for participating, and a huge thanks to our pinch hitters thedevilchicken, Nununununu, HopefulNebula, oneatatime, flipflop_diva, tablelamp, Lionwingz, and gostaks! The feedback post will be up later today. See you all in 2021!

Feedback post

  • Apr. 19th, 2020 at 12:42 PM
Welcome to the 2020 hindsight post!

1. Did the scheduling work? How did reveals on Yuri's Night feel? This year was a little bit awkward scheduling-wise on my end – some of that was this year, but some will continue into the forseeable future. What do you think of the week-and-a-weekend timeline for nominations and signups? Looking at the calendars for 2021 and 2022 would give 5 weeks and some days between assignments and the deadline. The main method to get more would be to compress nominations and sign-ups into a smaller timespan. Do you think the tradeoff would be worth it? – Relatedly, was there any scheduling overlap with other exchanges that adversely affected your participation?

2. This was the first year Interactive Fiction was its own thing to match on – do you think the minimum creation requirements (1,000 words total OR 3 different endings) worked, or should they be adjusted?

3. Relatedly, since there were multiple minimum creation requirement options for IF, do you think the ones for podfic should be adjusted from the current 500 words of a new story, written and podficced to 500 words of a new story, written and podficced OR podfic of an existing story 1,000 words long? I recall there was discussion of this a few years back but nothing came out of it.

4. Was there anything unclear in the instructions or rules?

5. Anything else you'd like to give as feedback?

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