The Best Challenge in Fandom.

[pensnest]

It's SeSa time again! When we start getting excited, and counting the signups day by day, and hoping our favourite writers will be participating—and maybe nudging them a little in case they need the encouragement. When we get our assignments and exclaim with joy/shriek with woe, because we've got a pairing we love/hate/never wrote before, a recipient we admire/don't know/have been friends with for ever and cannot under any circumstances disappoint, and a request which is completely bizarre/exactly the kind of thing we love writing/going to need a heck of a lot of research.



YAY!

I firmly believe this is the best challenge around. It generates a fantastic atmosphere within our beloved fandom, it's incredibly well run (nobody has *ever* lacked a story at go-live), and it always produces really wonderful stories (I firmly believe that a lot of us write some of our best work for the SeSa challenge).

Since 2001.

Okay, circumstances dictated a change of name and administrators back in 2007, from Don We Now Our Gay Apparel to Make The Yuletide Gay, but it has been very recognisably the same Secret Santa story exchange, and has even added a few new features to make it all work *even better* than before.

I know there are people who Subscribe to my DW journal/are on my LJ Friends list who have drifted away from popslash. Even the Best Fandom Ever loses energy after a while, and our Nsync boys are not helping—although Backstreet are still bringing the love. But think about this—a challenge that this year celebrates its TENTH ANNIVERSARY. That's, like, centuries in internet time. Can you bear to miss out? Don't you want to be a part of that?

For those of us who still count ourselves as popslashers, this is the *best* time of year. For those who used to be popslashers... how about giving it another go? Apparently, nostalgia's even better than it used to be.

MTYG Signups open on Monday.

Comments

[sperrywink]

I thought I could skip it this year, but even I'm not that strong. *g*

[pensnest]

:-D

Nobody should be that strong!

[rosenfall.livejournal.com]

Been wanting to try it out, but afraid not very good

[pensnest]

There is loads of help available - it's really a great time to have a go. You can get a SeSa 'mentor' to give you ideas on how to get started, and people will volunteer to beta you (I will, if you like). Plus, of course, you get a story written for *you*, which is always nice!

Consider yourself firmly encouraged!

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

You're kind of sneaky and evil. I haven't written much of anything in ages and yet you have me halfway convinced.

[pensnest]

It would be *splendid* to have you participating in this! I mean, I always find deadlines very helpful, and the whole challenge atmosphere encourages us to get writing, don't you think?

[quiet000001.livejournal.com]

I'm always worried I won't be able to come up with something.

How long is the sign up period?

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Excellent pimping post!

[pensnest]

Did it persuade you? :-D

[turps33.livejournal.com]

Honestly, it all depends on my bandomstuffsit assignment. If that looks easy. Maybe.

[pensnest]

For a moment there I knew an insane impulse to offer to write you a bandom story if you participate in MTYG.

But I got over it. Ahaha.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

So close! *g*

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

I haven't written popslash in AGES and was unsure about doing it this year... but dammit, there's no way I can skip it. I'm a hiatus fan and I've done it every year since I got into popslash. There's no way I can't. It's a matter of principle (principal? I can never remember!).

[pensnest]

I'm a hiatus fan, too, and the SeSa challenge has become a necessary part of my run-up to Christmas. Yay!

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Christmas just isn't Christmas without MTYG! :D

So yes, I signed up. MEEP!

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, 10 years already?? Man, I'd be tempted to join just for the 10 yr anniversary, but law school will have eaten my life again.