too much footie, not enough time!

[meretricula]

ok, flist, help me out here. who all is doing valentinesplay and footie_bang? I'm probably doing the latter (FINISHING SOULBONDING THIS TIME I FUCKING SWEAR), on the fence about the former. I kind of like to know what I'm getting into with fic exchanges, don't want to jump into a shark tank of angry madridistas, etc. but I like writing to spec and 500 words is totally doable, if that really is all that's expected, so...

should I sign up, yea or nay? bearing in mind that I've got all of cornerflag to edit by next week and I'm still failing at betaing for bigbang. (sorry I suck so hard, mardia. :( I swear I'll get it done!) and, uh, school, but it's not like rl responsibilities have ever stopped me before.

Comments

[acchikocchi.livejournal.com]

I'm doing valentinesplay but probably not footie_bang, partly because I signed up for the other one first and partly because I can't imagine describing a story before it's written, like is required for footie_bang/presumably big (?) bangs in general. Just a personal quirk, I guess, I usually don't really know what the fuck is going on with a story til it's pretty far along.

On one hand, I wouldn't worry too much about sharks -- I would guess about three to four Madridistas (including yrs truly) have signed up so far and I highly doubt the mod would match you with one of them given what I assume your team preferences would be... XD On the other, the deadlines are awfully close to each other and it would be hypocritical of me to say you should do both when I'm only doing one, ahaha.

[meretricula.livejournal.com]

tbh I wouldn't volunteer for footie_bang except pre-existing WIPs are allowed, so... I'm probably cheating by using a WIP that is literally missing only one scene but w/e w/e I do what I want. and I write fics over 3000 words very rarely, so I'd want the insurance of already having that written, haha. but I also don't want to disappoint a recipient in an exchange, and I know we all agree to "500 words minimum" but really people mean "5000 word fic of my heart" etc etc and I just don't write 5000 word fics of ANYBODY's heart. even my own. XD I guess I'll sleep on it, see how I feel in the morning.