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⌈ Secret Post #3760 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I won a charity auction last December, and was promised fanfic cut to my specifications. I gave the writer fairly free reign, just a broad outline, and sat back to wait.

And wait.

And wait.

The writer got in touch to apologise for the delay back in late January, and I have heard nothing since! What do I say? What do I do? This is making me so mad!

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'd contact the author once more, and ask. Who knows, there may have been a big disruption in their life and they need a bit more time (I'm not excusing anything here, it's been nearly 4 months after all, I'm just suggesting perhaps something happened and your fic has been back burnered). Were you promised a completed fic by a certain date or was it up in the air as to when you'd get it? You can also contact the charity and let them know that what you won hasn't been delivered yet, and that you'd like a timeline as to when it might be available. I'm assuming you had to buy a ticket to win the auction? Yeah, get in touch with the people who ran the auction and let them know.

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

SA - I'm planning to write an angry email and then edit out all the angry bits.
They said when they got in touch that life had gotten on top of them, but I looked at their AO3 profile and they've been active there since, so they're obviously not too busy to write...

I didn't give a strict timetable for the fic, but I did say that I really didn't want them to drop out of contact for months, because that's exactly what happened the last time I tried to commission a writer :(

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, well if they've been writing other stuff on AO3 then there's no excuse. Get in touch and remind them.

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

My sympathies. This is why I only bid on charity auctions as a roundabout means of donation, so I won't feel too disappointed if the writer/artist doesn't follow through. I assume there was no set deadline by which you were supposed to have received your fic? It's been months, I think you're well entitled to send a civil e-mail to the author asking about the progress they've made and a rough estimate of when you might expect the finished product.

Depending on how that goes, I'd also drop a polite note to whoever organized the charity auction. Don't get huffy or insulting, just give a concise summary of the facts. Especially if the writer ghosts you.

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Offering my two cents as someone who's been on the other end of this. Assuming your writer isn't an ass (which they could be, though the fact that they contacted you to apologize is a good sign), it's possible that they just haven't yet written anything that they feel is giftable. The longer the delay goes on the more guilty they probably feel, and the more blocked they are becoming.

Re: Questions/Advice Thread

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

As a writer, I understand that completely. But it's still not acceptable, especially in this situation. OP is well within their right to give the writer a firm nudge. It might even help, because then it's harder for the writer to ignore the issue.