Dealing the Wheel

[kerravonsen]

I have now sent off the assignments for the Multi-Fandom Lyric Wheel after having spent most of the morning writing a suitable script to do the random-assigning -- a script which got more elaborate as I wanted to be able to check things as I went along and do dry-runs, and put the data in format which could be used by the script which I already use to send my Net-Fic Reviews author-notifications.

But it's all done now, 15 people in all.
Now I just have to start thinking about what I was myself assigned...

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention to the participants -- it's probably a good idea to not say whose lyrics you were assigned; there seems to be a kind of tradition of keeping mum in these ficathons, don't want to break it.

Comments

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Oh, I can write something for it - I've got a Travis II story floating around in my head for one of them already - but it's just, um, not my favorite songwriter by a long shot and also, I'd think it would be better if the song didn't actually tell a story, because how can you fit that to a fandom?

Agh. Will have to give my N function a workout.

But yeah, I can write something, just not sure how much the person who chose the lyrics will like it.

[kerravonsen]

But yeah, I can write something, just not sure how much the person who chose the lyrics will like it.

You can't even know what they were thinking when they picked those particular lyrics. Don't worry about it. Just consider the first-order problem of the lyrics themselves, not the second-order problem of trying to second-guess the person who picked them -- they probably don't have any idea what they themselves would do with those songs, let alone anyone else.