Jaune Chat's Life, the Universe, and Everything

I'll agree the form is intimidating, but if you take a second to consider, it's really the only way to make sure the writer has as many chances as possible to create something his/her recipient will like. There are literally limitless possibilities for a story to go when you throw at least 5 fandoms as potential possibilities. And those possibilities are complicated by the character casts in each show. You did a great job in covering all the possibilites in creating the form in the first place.

While I've written stories from everything from one-word prompts to detailed outlines, I tend to like my prompts how I prefer someone giving me driving directions: Name me the major roads, give me some visual clues I should be looking for when I'm getting close to the right place, and lemme know that if I go past the yellow house, I've gone too far. The "you've gone too far" direction is extremely useful, because otherwise I can find myself in totally unknown territory for a long time before I realize that I'm lost.

So that's how I tend to think about the sign-ups, and in that context, it's totally fine.

I had so much fun last year that I wanted to spread the joy to the flist. :)