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Secret Santa 3: The Authoring

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by Oz, Dec 10, 2013.

  1. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    I'm here to kick ass and write stories and I'm all out of ass. Put me up for both.
     
  2. Tommy

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    Statistics are looking all right now, Oz. Let's do this.
     
  3. Klackerz

    Klackerz Bridgeburner

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    I wanna be a contestant
     
  4. Zeelthor

    Zeelthor Scissor Me Timbers

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    Seems like there should be a deadline set soon-ish. At least in my opinion.
     
  5. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    The deadline is December 24. Been busy with finals this week.
     
  6. Zeelthor

    Zeelthor Scissor Me Timbers

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    Hope you did well, bro.
     
  7. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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  8. Tommy

    Tommy The Green Ranger

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    Good luck, Oz.

    And, btw, is it the people who are suggesting's responsibility to contact us with their suggestions?
     
  9. Riley

    Riley Alchemist DLP Supporter

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    It's like normal secret santa, I believe that the suggesters don't know who is their santa until the writer contacts them
     
  10. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    I'll be contacting authors and winners letting them know one the draw occurs.
     
  11. prion

    prion Second Year

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    If there's still room and it's not too late, I'd like to suggest ideas.
     
  12. Azira

    Azira High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Sign me up Ozzeh.
     
  13. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    The draw has been made. Sorry to those who missed out. Winners were chosen by randomly shuffling the list of authors and the list of contestants, and pairing them in order. No collisions occurred (i.e. someone being matched with their own name), but if any had occurred, the lists would have been repeatedly shuffled until there were no collisions.

    Merry Christmas, everyone, and have a happy New Year.

    Code:
    Author			Contestant 
    ==================================
    
    freak		=>	Azira
    Calz		=>	freak
    Zircon		=>	digitalstorm
    Nauro		=>	Tommy
    Banta		=>	Hero of Stupidity
    BitMyFinger	=>	melior
    Republic21	=>	Johnny Farrar
    Ched		=>	Xantam
    kmfrank		=>	AlbusPHolmes
    Tommy		=>	Mishie
    Johnny Farrar	=>	Calz
    Jon 		=>	Nemrut
    Riley Poole	=>	BitMyFinger
    Zenzao		=>	Jon
    Poytin		=>	Dnar Semaj *
    Zeelthor	=>	Republic21
    AlbusPHolmes	=>	Ched
    Nemrut		=>	yojorocks
    Zennith		=>	Klackerz
    Runners up:
    • Banta
    • Polysemous
    • Zeelthor
    • Nauro

    *Poytin will stream a game for you.
     
  14. Republic

    Republic The Snow Queen –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    Props to oz for getting this done, but here's a thing. I got zeelthor, who says he would rather do a DF fic, while my idea is pure HP.

    Is there a pair of author/contestant that'd be agreeable to a switch, if the contestant can offer a DF idea and the author comfortable with writing my HP one?
     
  15. Zeelthor

    Zeelthor Scissor Me Timbers

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    That is not to say I can't write a HP fic. I'd just feel way less comfortable about it. :)
     
  16. melior

    melior Seventh Year

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    PM sent! Pretty stoked that one of my ideas that I "will get around to writing someday" might actually get written.
     
  17. dhulli

    dhulli The Reborn

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    It's kind of annoying that I was only a contestant and still wasn't picked despite there being a lot of dual author/contestant who were picked as both.

    But whatever, I'm open to writing something as well. Prion, since you weren't even added to the draw somehow, PM me an idea and I'll write it up. Anything HP related.
     
  18. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    Gasp. It's almost like the draw was entirely random!
     
  19. Oz

    Oz For Zombie. Moderator DLP Supporter

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    There have to be some losers, unfortunately.

    prion: Sorry I missed your post, buddy. =/
     
  20. Ched

    Ched Da Trek Moderator DLP Supporter ⭐⭐

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    A WILD CHALLENGE APPEARS!

    So I'm willing to bet that some most of us haven't finished these yet. I got with Xantam ages ago to sort out more or less what he wanted and it's been churning around in my head for months now. It's an awesome idea and I'm looking forward to writing it.

    But while I will be forever grateful to Jeram for writing my 2012 fic challenge (go read it) I want to avoid writing my 2013 Santa Challenge in 2015 rather than 2014. I want to finish it before December rolls around and we're on Secret Santa #4 instead of #3.

    So my challenge to all of you authors who chose to participate is thus:
    Write your Secret Santa fic during NaNoWriMo unless you already have specific NaNo plans.

    I'm not doing NaNo properly, I know that. But instead of trying to write and finish a 50k long novel I'm instead trying to churn out some of my short story ideas (both fanfic and original) that I've had sitting around ready to write for a few months. This one is near the top of the list.

    Go forth and be awesome DLP, you know you can do it.

    P.S. That includes you Alb, chop chop.
    P.P.S. If you already wrote yours, link it!
     
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