Let's have some Ethan, then
I am going to run an Ethan Rayne ficathon. I've done the challenge-style ficathon before, for Rupertus Domesticus, but that required almost no work from me other than pimpage. This is more work. I have been reading hints from other people.
Was thinking of asking for prompts that look like this:
- characters or pairings
- brief scenario or prompt
- one thing you don't want
- characters you most want to write
- characters you can't ever write
- anything else you can't write
Heavily inspired by the maleslashminis signup format, which looks well-optimized to me.
Min length 1000 words. (Which feels way short to me, but I realize I'm prolix.)
Timeline: signups until June 30 (Sat), assignments sent July 2 or 3 (Mon or Tues), stories due Aug 19 (Sunday, just under 7 weeks to write). Email reminders sent 3 weeks out and 1 week out. It's looking like the very end of August or even Sept would be better for more people. I'll pick something soon...
I want to time this for after Summer of Giles, but before the fall. Opinions? Suggestions? Donations of heavily psychoactive painkillers? Suggestions for a catchy title?
Was thinking of asking for prompts that look like this:
- characters or pairings
- brief scenario or prompt
- one thing you don't want
- characters you most want to write
- characters you can't ever write
- anything else you can't write
Heavily inspired by the maleslashminis signup format, which looks well-optimized to me.
Min length 1000 words. (Which feels way short to me, but I realize I'm prolix.)
Timeline: signups until June 30 (Sat), assignments sent July 2 or 3 (Mon or Tues), stories due Aug 19 (Sunday, just under 7 weeks to write). Email reminders sent 3 weeks out and 1 week out. It's looking like the very end of August or even Sept would be better for more people. I'll pick something soon...
I want to time this for after Summer of Giles, but before the fall. Opinions? Suggestions? Donations of heavily psychoactive painkillers? Suggestions for a catchy title?
I guess this comment is just to show you I'd be interested, if wanted?
But your enthusiasm and my growing love for Ethan makes me ponder signing up.
I'd at least be willing to help out.
I'm tempted, but holy jeez, I recently wrote over 250 pages of Dawn/Ethan, and then a G/E for remix that a mere handful of people read.
But, um, yeah, I'm probably signed up.
... not that I'll join the ficathon. I suck at deadlines and I already intend to spend the summer writing Ethan.
But is a good idea.
On the other hand, I'm not your target audience anyway, as an August 12 deadline makes it *extremely* unlikely that I'll be signing up. :)
Which, obviously, does not mean that you shouldn't do it then; just that my input on it, except if you have questions from a purely technical standpoint about ficathons, is fairly worthless if I'm not even going to consider signing up. *g*
The only thing I'm adamant about is more Ethan because ... Just because.
Anyway. With respect to the ficathon--you're not going to be able to please everyone. I see that several people have mentioned it as being awfully close to s_o_g, so that may be something you want to take into account. But essentially, there will never be a time that is good for everyone in fandom, or a format that is good for everyone in fandom.
Me writing for it is *not* something you should count on, honestly.
Maybe you could also allow stories that aren't part of the formal ficathon. Have one structured and one not. I'm really tired, so I hope that makes sense.
Yes, but even for writers who tend to be more comfortable writing long stuff, there are times when you get your ficathon prompt and go "my God, I have to write this?" And then usually it's a case of trying to squeeze out enough words to fit, and it's hard when you're writing something that just doesn't fit you for one reason or another. So while I wouldn't make the length requirement any shorter, I wouldn't make it any longer, either.
And I have no interest in participating in the ficathon, being rather indifferent to Ethan in both the series and in fic. Sorry. Hope you get a lot of other people.
I added the min wordcount thing on the advice of one of the "so you want to run a ficathon" things I read. It said that if you don't, people will write drabbles, and thus disappoint their recipients. I am swiftly learning, however, that there's no pleasin' everybody, so I must make my best guesses and just run with it.