It's that time. Sign ups for Yellow are open.

[writingrainbow]

Trying a couple things this round, the first is opening sign ups and nominations at the same time, the second is less warning and lead up (the dates weren't a secret, anyone could have asked and they did come up a few times, but I didn't have a countdown going or anything), the third is there is now a minimum of 5 freeform tags on requests.

What I am trying to accomplish with these changes is reducing the amount of time devoted to this exchange, and avoid pulling attention away from other flash exchanges through extended lead up and nomination time. The other thing I am trying to accomplish is making it a little easier on authors by not letting anyone ask for only one tag.

With all that out of the way, here are the links and the schedule:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/WritingRainbowYellow/profile

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/3847/

Sign-up: Open
Sign-up Closes: Thu 23 Jan 2020 11:59PM EST
Assignments Due: Tue 28 Jan 2020 11:59PM EST
Works Revealed: Wed 29 Jan 2020 12:00AM EST
Creators Revealed: Fri 31 Jan 2020 11:59PM EST

Comments

[lailah_tov]

The tag set link needs "nominations" taken off the end, unless you want to make us all tagmods. :D

[writingrainbow]

whoops. I mean, you can if you want? I'll fix it.

[leahandillyana]

What will happen if a person does have somebody who will write for them, but doesn't have somebody to write for, as nobody requested any of the fandoms they are familiar with?

[writingrainbow]

If there is nobody you can write for, your sign up will be deleted.

There are a few things I can suggest, the first is consider offering original work. There is no canon knowledge needed for that if you are comfortable writing something original.

The second is watch sign ups closely, especially toward the end, there may be someone who asks for a fandom you know but didn't think to offer, or who asks for a "5 minute fandom" that you can consume quickly (examples are songs, short YouTube videos, commercials, etc)

The final option is if there are fandoms you could write for if necessary but would rather not match on if someone is asking for one of your existing offers, you can send me a list and if I run matching and you have no possible recipient, I will add those backup plan fandoms and run matching again.