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[tavellafic]

Sigh. I fail to see why anyone would friendslock a story challenge. Not that I expect I would write anything for it, but it's nice to look and see if you get inspired.

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[stenaline.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you're talking about cliokat's challenge? Details can be found here (http://obsessivetendencies.net/challenge/wonder_challenge.html) as well if you decide you want to play :)

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

Yes, except that apparently nearly all of them are taken, just not marked. To know what is *actually* available without going through rounds of get inspired/find out it is taken, you have to look at the comments on the announcement. Which is locked. For no readily apparently reason, since a later reference to it in her journal isn't.

If it's just a private challenge, that's fine, I've seen some very fine collections of fic from invitation-only challenges. But I wish in that case that other people wouldn't babble about it in their journals and encourage people to sign up, because then hitting the "You are not authorized to view this protected entry." makes you feel vaguely like not-people.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

hitting the "You are not authorized to view this protected entry." makes you feel vaguely like not-people.

*hugs* You're some of my favorite people, baby.

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

(smooch!)

Thank you, sweetie.

[stenaline.livejournal.com]

I obviously can't speak for Katie, and I have no idea why the original entry about the challenge was friends-locked. However, I am pretty confident that it's not something you should take personally.

[krissita.livejournal.com]

The page is here: http://obsessivetendencies.net/challenge/wonder_challenge.html
if you want to give it a glance.

[krissita.livejournal.com]

Er. Yeah, what Stina said. ^^

heh.

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's pretty much useless, since what is showing on the website is mostly already taken on the real challenge thread. I was thinking about the black earth lyric, which was marked as free, and was informed it was already asked for.

Really, it would have been better to either make it a private challenge, or ask people to email requests and update the website regularly. Linking to a plain text file would have done it.

[strippedhalo.livejournal.com]

I rather agree with you on all counts. Particularly the one about people who are included talking about it a lot. Although they maybe didn't know it was locked when they did the talking, since yeah, it's not the sort of thing you might expect to be locked.

Right-o.

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

Thing is, I wouldn't have been at all phased if it was just a private challenge, I've seen enough challenge-organizers ripping their hair out as people fail to make deadlines to completely sympathize with wanting to farm a challenge out to people who will actually write stories. But this weird thing where it's supposedly a public challenge but all the *real* discussion and divvying up is going on in locked posts feel a lot like standing around while the cool girls pick their favorites and then if there's anything left you peons can have one.

I'm sure that's not what cliokat intended, but I don't appear to be the only one who got that vibe.