As promised, here is the feedback post, intended for you to voice anything good or bad about your experience of the exchange and suggest what I can improve for next time. I am particularly interested in hearing any opinions about:

1. Timing. Did the time of year that I picked for this work for people? I somewhat randomly chose it so that it was between the Histories ficathon and Yuletide and wouldn't overlap with either. However, we hit NaNo planning time with the end date. Any opinions on this? Is there an alternative time of year that you'd like to suggest for next time?

2. Reveal & anon period. Again, my executive decision was to not have an anon period due to the small size of the exchange and the attached assumption that you'd be able to tell who wrote what anyway. Was that a sensible thing? Or would people prefer an anon period next time? If so how long?

3. Minimum word count. Was 1,000 words okay? Would you prefer a smaller word minimum so it's less of a commitment?

4. Mechanism of signing up and matching. I tried to make it so that the sign-up form was more or less in letter format but would you like a letters post in addition to the sign-up form? Anything about the sign-up that chould change, for example would it be useful to have a mandatory field for preferred characters/pairings in addition to requested play?

5. Medium. This time around this was a fic-only exchange. How do people feel about opening it up to other types of fanworks?


I have already had some feedback to suggest that we need a "find a beta" post next time so that is one thing that I will provide next time!