Go here (http://yuletidetreasure.org/signup_page1.cgi) and follow the directions. The only really tricky bit has to do with what characters you're willing to write, or want to request, in a given fandom. When you click on a fandom in the request boxes, it should give you a pulldown list of characters; hit control to highlight multiple ones. Those are the characters you want the fic you receive to focus on.
The top box in the fandoms offered bit is for fandoms in which you would be willing to write about any character. Check every fandom you would be willing to do that for. The boxes below that are for fandoms in which there are a few characters you would want to write about and others you wouldn't; highlight as with the request boxes to indicate the characters you would be willing to write about.
The 'additional notes' section of the request boxes is where you say what you actually want as a story. Some specificity is good, but leaving flexibility is also a good idea. For example, if I were requesting a Hunter X Hunter fic, I might say something like 'I think that Gon and Killua are a really awesome pair, so fic about them, whether it's romantic or not, would be great; I'm also intrigued by how their dynamic with Hisoka affects the way they deal with each other. But if you're skeeved out by Hisoka's intentions, well, the only character in this fandom I really don't want to read about is Kuroro'. This way the writer has some idea what you want but you haven't plotted the story for them.
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Date: 2008-11-04 05:36 am (UTC)The top box in the fandoms offered bit is for fandoms in which you would be willing to write about any character. Check every fandom you would be willing to do that for. The boxes below that are for fandoms in which there are a few characters you would want to write about and others you wouldn't; highlight as with the request boxes to indicate the characters you would be willing to write about.
The 'additional notes' section of the request boxes is where you say what you actually want as a story. Some specificity is good, but leaving flexibility is also a good idea. For example, if I were requesting a Hunter X Hunter fic, I might say something like 'I think that Gon and Killua are a really awesome pair, so fic about them, whether it's romantic or not, would be great; I'm also intrigued by how their dynamic with Hisoka affects the way they deal with each other. But if you're skeeved out by Hisoka's intentions, well, the only character in this fandom I really don't want to read about is Kuroro'. This way the writer has some idea what you want but you haven't plotted the story for them.
Make sense?