Expressions of Interest

[kerravonsen]

In a comment in this post, I expressed an interest in organizing a Lyric ficathon, one that wouldn't clash with a bunch of other ficathons. This means that I wouldn't even start thinking about it until late March or early April, because the remixredux is due March 15 (and apparently the original lyric ficathon is due March 18th), but I'd like to get some expressions of interest so I can sort of book a time when folks would be free and interested in doing it.

My intention is similar to the lyric ficathon above, but rather than the organizer giving out all the lyrics, I propose to make it more interesting by requiring that each participant bring along two sets of lyrics, which I will then bestow at random amongst the participants.
It would be multi-fandom -- any fandom at all, but no RPF.
I'd also have to say, no slash or adult, but I think folks can cope with that restriction.

Wadda ya think? Suggestions please.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Counteth me inneth. That's about when I was thinking for the Jarriere one, but I'm not in a big rush, we'll just stagger them a bit.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

By a set of lyrics, do you mean a whole song, or just a couple of lines?

[kerravonsen]

Good.

[kerravonsen]

A whole song. Either cut and pasted in, or a link to a lyric site which has all the words. There's actually a lot of lyric sites out there.

I thought I'd actually model it after the original (Highlander) Lyric Wheel, and the Sentinel Lyric Wheel, where the idea is to write a story evoked by a song, not a story which is a commentary on the song. Both those required one to include one line from the song in the story (as part of dialogue, or description, or thought, etc). In order to prevent the terribly boring have-characters-listen-to-a-song-and-think-about-it kind of story, I'm contemplating making a rule that the inclusion of song lyric lines is limited to one and only one line. Or maybe no more than three lines.

[kerravonsen]

And folks, what do you think would be a good minimum number of words? 500? 1000? Something in between?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've never done one, but those all sound like excellent ideas. So each person gets two sets and can choose one?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's 1000 in the ficathons I've done, though that's not many. 500 is fairly easy to do--I regularly hit that for b7friday--so I'd say 1000.

[kerravonsen]

That's the idea. Makes it easier than just forcing someone to bang their head against one set of lyrics and find inspiration eluding them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

What if two or more people submit the same song? Will you assign them anyway, or ask for different ones?

This ficathon sounds fun, but if it's multifandom, do you specify those you know and can write for? I know a few fandoms (not as many as some people) but could only write some of those.

[kerravonsen]

What if two or more people submit the same song? Will you assign them anyway, or ask for different ones?
It shouldn't matter if two people submit the same song. If I organize it like a Lyric Wheel, then basically I would take the list of all participants, randomize it, and then send the lyrics submitted by Participant A to Participant B and so on down the list. That way everybody gets two sets of lyrics, randomly.

This ficathon sounds fun, but if it's multifandom, do you specify those you know and can write for? I know a few fandoms (not as many as some people) but could only write some of those.

The reason for specifying what fandoms one knows and can write for is really only if one has to deal with matching requests. We have two options, therefore:

(a) no requests, any fandom. The only kind of "request" is the lyrics one recieves. Once one gets the lyrics, one can write whatever one wants, in whatever fandom one wants.
(b) One can request a fandom as well as submitting lyrics. This would thus require listing fandoms one could write in, and entail trying to match fandoms with fandoms. More work for me, less choice for the writers, but possibly more satisfaction for the requesters.

I had intended going for (a) but I could be persuaded to go for (b) with some convincing arguments.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No, (a) sounds good! Much less work for you and easier for the writer as all they have to do is interpret a song. This sounds very cool.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

My natural length tends to the Extremely Short, so I sometimes actually find 1000 difficult to hit. I'd vote for 500, but I can live with 1000. More than that is not so good. :)

[kerravonsen]

A compromise? 750?

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I have no objection. :)