The Americans: NYR 2014

[wendelah1]

The Americans fandom had a very successful Yuletide. Five new stories were added to the growing collection of fanfiction for our series, all of it quite good, too. But wouldn't it be nice to have more?

If you are looking for inspiration, these are the Yuletide letters from the spreadsheet. If you use one of the prompts you can post the gift to the New Year's Resolution 2014 Collection.

Please, please cross-post your Yuletide and NYR stories to our community, too.

If there are any missing letters or signups, let me know and I'll add them here, and try to message the spreadsheet folks.

http://i-am-girlfriday.livejournal.com/487790.html

http://blueteak.livejournal.com/18674.html

http://raisintorte.livejournal.com/466582.html

http://findthesea.livejournal.com/19961.html

http://xylaria.livejournal.com/5606.html

http://shoroko.dreamwidth.org/8728.html

http://wendelah1.dreamwidth.org/306494.html

http://fleurlb.livejournal.com/68670.html

http://sistermagpie.livejournal.com/210234.html

Inspired by someone on my reading list, my New Year's resolution is to try to write a story each month for the New Year's Resolution Collection.

Are you with me? NO? Fair enough. We all have lives and other fandoms, too. But we have 43 members here. Our fandom currently has 30 stories on AO3. If every member wrote just one story for The Americans between now and next October (or whenever they get it together to send out assignments for Yuletide 2014), we'll have more than doubled the number of stories. If we each write two or three stories, well, the sky is the limit, isn't it?

Happy New Year!

Comments

[jae]

Oh, man, you are awesome for posting this. Two other things:

1) You don't have to have written The Americans for yuletide, or even have participated in yuletide, to do what wendelah1 is suggesting. You just have to be willing to write a story to someone's prompt.

2) You can write a story for a prompt that's already been filled within the context of yuletide (because each writer does things differently enough that it would be a different story anyway). So for example, I wrote a story to fill sistermagpie's prompt, but if you feel like writing a different story to fill that same prompt, there's nothing yuletide un-kosher about that.

I don't know that this community is big enough for our own fic challenge yet, but this is maybe exactly the sort of thing to coax us to produce more fic. Thank you for thinking of it!

-J

[treonb]

How does it work - I write the story, gift it to whomever and add it to the collection? How do I know if the prompt had been filled already?

[jae]

I write the story, gift it to whomever and add it to the collection?

That's exactly right. Just make sure it's the NYR (New Year's Resolution) collection, not yuletide per se, and you're golden.

How do I know if the prompt had been filled already?

You don't necessarily--that's my point. It doesn't matter whether the prompt has been filled already, because every writer's interpretation of the prompt is different. So if you see a prompt you like, don't worry about whether or not it's already been filled, just go to town!

-J

[wendelah1]

That is how it works. You write the story, gift it to the person who asked for it and add it to the collection.

I don't believe there is any way to know if the prompt has already been filled, unless you read the five stories in the Yuletide archive for The Americans and compare them to the list. But it's not against the rules to write them again. Every writer will do it a little bit differently. It's not against the rules to write your own prompt, for that matter.