Feedback post & poll

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

That's it,  the exchange is over, everything has been posted. A masterlist has been compiled [Poll #1796008][Poll #1796009][Poll #1796010]

Since this is the first time I've organised an exchange, some feedback about what you liked or disliked would be nice. Did you dislike anything about the organisation? About the sign-up form? About the posting schedule? About the way I generally ran things? Just let me know. I'm not saying that I will agree with every suggestion, but I definitely want to hear and think about them. ^^ Feel also free to leave any other sort of feedback on the exchange, if it made you discover new pairings, if you want to tell people about your favourite fic/art, whatever.

Oh, and one last question: depending on how much time will pass until the next exchange, would you be interested in participating in a kinkmeme or commentfics or writing challenges here on this comm to tide us over until the next exchange? I'm just asking because I wouldn't mind organising something, but there's no point to it if nobody wants to participate anyway.

Comments

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

Congrats on a most excellently run fest! I've done many fests and exchanges like this, and this is definitley one of the smoothest I've seen. So great job! :D

My one thing has to do with the signup form. I REALLY wish that there had been a place to specify if you wanted book or show verse (or either). And the same goes for what you'd be willing to create. A lot of us only know this or that, or have seen the show and read only a book or two. So I wish that that would have been one of the questions. I mean, I did specify what I wanted, but I wasn't able to put it in it's own little spot. :P

As for commenting... :(. There was a lot I wanted to look at or read. But I couldn't because of book spoilers. Sorry!

I wouldn't participate in a kink meme or commentfic thing. Those just aren't my cup of tea. :P

Thanks again!

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the compliments. :) It's the first time I ever ran an exchange, and I'm so glad everything went well.

I did include a question about whether people have read the books, or not, or only some of them, but maybe I should have made it a bit clearer when people want only show-verse. I could add that next time, maybe something like "Have you read (all) the books? Please specify if you have any book vs. show preferences." But I did include it, and I told everyone whether their giftee had read the books or not.
As for the creation part ... the problem is that the large majority of all participants had at least read some of the books. I think there were only three or four people who hadn't read any of the books, so most people ended up asking for at least a few prompts that require knowledge of the books. I tried to make sure that everyone had at least two or three prompts they could actually work with, but I can't promise that everyone gets only prompts they can fill. :/

I understand, I wouldn't want anyone to spoil themselves, or to read things they don't want to read. It just makes me sad when people DO read fics, and then don't bother to leave a comment.

Okay, cool. :) Looking forward to having you around again for the next exchange. ^^

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

You're most welcome. You really did do a great job. :D

I just looked back over the signups and I don't see that. Perhaps I'm missing something. If I am, that's cool. I'm so tired/stressed/frazzled it's not even funny, lol.

I'm not looking to only get prompts I can fill. That's not it at all. Honestly, I wrote for a pairing I'd never have thought to exist! But I did it and that's fine. I was just really worried I was going to end up with something I couldn't do at all. Also, my person didn't specify if they wanted show or book verse so I was worried about that. :(

Le sigh, I understand that all to well.

Thanks! I had a lot of fun. :)

[linndechir.livejournal.com]

Well, in the sign-ups there's the question "Did you read all the books?" and then (unless I screwed up your assignment mail oO) in the email you should have had "your giftee is XYZ who has only seen the show/has read all the books/has read the books up to ACOK" etc. I took that into consideration, so obviously I wouldn't assign a bunch of Jaime/Brienne prompts to someone who has only seen the show.

I'll add next time that people who have seen the show and read the books should specify the verse they want, if they have a preference, at least when it comes to people like Jorah or Renly who are extremely different in book and show.

Glad to hear that. ^^