03 December 2012

#ffw Furtive Father Winter 2012


Happy December! The icy tendrils of winter are stealing across Azeroth, and its peoples turn their faces towards the distant spring. Those of us on Earth are bundling up and settling in for a long winter's grindfest.

Once again, it's time for the 4th annual Blog Azeroth Furtive Father Winter blogger gift exchange! Bloggers are encouraged to sign up, create a post for their randomly-assigned gift recipient, and publish the gift they receive from their furtive Father Winter! You don't need to be a BA member (although I highly recommend it), but you do need a place to publish gifts.

The process is simple:

1. Between now and December 15th, email me using my comment form, reply to this post, or reply to the Blog Azeroth FFW thread. I need your name, email address, and blog URL.
2. On December 16th, I will pair up participants and email everyone with the name, email address, and blog URL of their gift recipient.
3. Gift givers should then learn about their recipient and create a gift post using prose, poetry, music, graphic art, screenshots, or anything else that inspires them. There is no quantity requirement; just make sure it's something you might like to receive as a present!
4. Between December 20th and 31st, please deliver your gift, and publish what you receive on your blog. Be sure to credit the gift-giver so we can appreciate all the creativity!

Last year we had a really incredible turnout, and everyone turned in wonderful posts by the deadline. To keep it going, feel free to nab the graphic and link to this event on your own blog or twitter. The more the merrier!

18 comments:

  1. This was a lot of fun last year! Sign me up!

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  2. I'd love to do this! Unfortunately my shadowy overlords have made it challenging for me to use our limited interwebz to make this happen. I'll support with /hugs.

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  3. I'd like to do this again too. Looking forward to see all the posts.

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  4. Signing up, this seems like nice idea :-)

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    1. I found your blog through your profile, but I need a contact email address from you please!

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  5. I'm making this far too complicated in my head. How do you "deliver the gift?"

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    1. Email! I'll send out the information for the person you send your gift to on the 16th. Are you in? (Pleeeeeeeaaaaaase?) ^_^

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    2. So we deliver it in html format? Or just text and media?

      And goodness yes I'm in, but on the WoW Insider site. I'm going to try to get the post up today announcing it. Such a lovely idea. Such a great name. Furtive is so very naughty. I'll post my info on the BA site so everyone is warned. :D

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    3. Oops I'll be participating, not WoW Insider, but I'm still announcing it on WI soonly.

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    4. I'd say a .doc/.rtf and any picture files would be fine, but you could send a raw html doc for them to copy directly into their blog.

      Also, hugely pleased you'll be promoting this; please remind people that 1) they must have a web location to post this on and 2) they MUST include an email address somewhere!

      Thank you <3 PS I'll need your infos if you're in! :)

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  6. I want to join in, too! Sending you my info through the contact form.

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  7. What is the gift delivery deadline? Christmas like it was last year? If it is not to late I would love to join in this years reindeer games.

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  8. I'm in! Sent my info via your contact form.

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