Contest Reminder and other Modly Matters

[mythverdandi.livejournal.com]

Aloha, Ficcers!

Just a quick reminder for the current contest - Unadulterated Loathing - is still open for entries until October 31st. We've got four entries now, but there are 92 of us! That's a bit feeble, chaps!

For those who don't know the process, a poll with links to all the fics will go up on November 1st for 3 days. The winner will be announced on November 4th and then they have until November 6th at the very latest to come up with the topic for the next contest and e-mail it to me. The sooner the better! As well as that, they will be presented with a nifty little banner that they can use wherever they see fit to pimp their work and general awesomeness.


Welcome to all new people, by the way! It makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to see this little community growing. I know I've been a bit absent lately, and I can make all the excuses in the world, but you guys don't really care, and I'm just pleased how well the comm's running without me.


In other news, I've been toying with the idea of a ficathon to try and really kickstart the rest of you sleepy ficcers out there.

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Any other comments? Ideas?

That's all people, remember to enter the contest!

Bip bip bip!

Comments

[candycentric.livejournal.com]

In other news, I've been toying with the idea of a ficathon to try and really kickstart the rest of you sleepy ficcers out there.

hey, I'm not always 'hip' to all the new language.. :P What's a ficathon?

[lexie-b.livejournal.com]

It can be done a couple of ways but basically, everyone receives/picks a prompt, writes a fic to that prompt and then loads of fic is posted.

Some ficathons have monthly-ficathons, where for every day of the month, there's a different prompt, and at the end, the people who finished all/the most prompts get a little banner.

Then there are the ones that work like Secret Santa - you ask for a fic and then write a fic for someone else. And the ones where you claim a single prompt from a list.

/ends ramble.

[candycentric.livejournal.com]

ooooooo.. thanx ;)

And that sounds cool to me! :)

[lexie-b.livejournal.com]

Any other comments? Ideas?

Prompt ficathons are way cooler than fic-exchange style ones ^_^ And can it be all-ship friendly? :bounces up and down: The only tiny downside is that November is NanoWrimo month, and there might be a few people who'll be writing for that.

[mythverdandi.livejournal.com]

I'd actually been thinking along the lines of doing a secret-santa style ficathon, sending out the prompts maybe towards the end of November so that they can be done for somewhere around Christmas, largely because I think that'll be easier for me to run with all the work I've got.

What I'll do is give you guys a sort of form saying what you'd like to write, what you wouldn't like to write and then maybe letting you put down three prompts that your writer can choose from. That way everyone'll get a lovely little Christmas present, NaNo shouldn't be disturbed too much (dear Lord, I'm writing a novel next month as well...eek!) and I won't have to do too much, since daily prompts would be a bit much for me to guarantee right now.

Besides, the prompt-ficathons are pretty similar to our monthly contests ;) Which are always everything-friendly, so you could enter those and up the numbers! :P

[last01standing.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Never done a ficathon before, but I always wanted to try.

I really wanted to do something for the contest, but I've got absolutely nothing for this one. Sorry. I've never really got fic from music.

[savannahjan.livejournal.com]

I'm so new to all of this. I need a second-grade break down of the secret Santa version of a ficathon.

Though...what is the difference between a ficathon and what we've already been doing? Everyone has had the opportunity to write about the prompt provided for the contest, even if they don't necessarily enter.

[mythverdandi.livejournal.com]

This'll be more of a...fic exchange, than a ficathon. You'll put forward what you'd like to see written and someone else will write it for you. Equally, someone else'll put forward something they'd like to see and you'll write it for them. Does that make sense?