Comments | fkficfest: The Rules and Sign-ups Post: "We're going to be friends for a long, long time."

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The Rules and Sign-ups Post: "We're going to be friends for a long, long time."

Feb 18, 2010 11:37

Sign-ups for the fkficfest ficathon are now open! Our mission: fantastic, fresh Forever Knight fanfiction and fun along the way! Please read the rules in this post and think over your prompts. To sign-up, comment on this post by March 18 (11:59 PM Pacific Time). Once your prompts are posted, they are considered final ( Read more... )

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greerwatson February 19 2010, 04:11:40 UTC

But this is a work of fiction in itself! I particularly love rosebud's sign-up; but they're all good.

Now I get littlebear (Urs) and darkbutton (a DarkPerk's Tracy); but I haven't caught the allusion behind plantstheanswer yet. More brainracking needed, obviously. (And I'm still working on my prompts.)

fkficfestmod February 19 2010, 05:13:44 UTC

Thanks! They were fun to write. You're spot-on about Urs and Tracy.

"Plants! Plants are the answer!" is Feliks Twist from "Blood Money," of whom I'm (brightknightie) quite fond. (I tried "plantsaretheanswer" and "plantsrtheanswer," but LJ's username length topped out at "plantstheanswer.")

We have a whole month for sign-ups, so no rush. :-) I'm still working on my own, too.

greerwatson February 19 2010, 08:52:34 UTC

Maybe PlantsRtheAnswr?

I'm rather fond of Feliks myself; I should have guessed it was him.

pj1228 February 23 2010, 13:44:33 UTC

I love the Nightcrawler prompt, too!
I'm also still working on my own prompts. Since this is the first time, I'm participating in a ficfest, I'm experiencing an interesting dilemma that I hadn't expected. While thinking up my prompts, I found my mind already developping a story around them, which left me debating whether I should use the prompts for the ficfest or keep them for my own stories - LOL. Is this a common experience that comes with thinking about prompts?

brightknightie February 23 2010, 17:39:19 UTC

>"Is this a common experience that comes with thinking about prompts?"

It happens to me every time. :-)

brightknightie February 24 2010, 06:19:29 UTC

>"debating whether I should use the prompts for the ficfest or keep them for my own stories"

Some people like to concentrate their ficathon prompts on scenarios that they have always wanted to read, but which they cannot, for some reason, write themselves. For example, by that pattern, I should perhaps request the Marian Blackwing story that I've wanted to read for years, but which I feel I lack the cultural knowledge to write myself.

~shrug~ Just one way of approaching things. :-)

havocthecat March 1 2010, 16:11:19 UTC

So. Excited!

brightknightie March 1 2010, 16:38:46 UTC

Three cheers for FK! Three cheers for all of us! :-)

twilight2000 March 13 2010, 00:30:19 UTC

First, this is a BRILLIANT explanation of what you want - I wish all ficathons would be this clear - this is so very useful to us newbies (I've only participated in 1 to date).

2nd, YEA! I'm so in! Thanks for organizing this!

brightknightie March 13 2010, 08:45:57 UTC

Glad to have you! And thank you very much for the kind compliment. Our rules are closely modeled on those used in femme_fic (ficathon celebrating female characters) and oldschoolfic (ficathon celebrating canceled series).

abby82 March 18 2010, 08:21:42 UTC

I've got a question on whether or not I'm unintentionally cheating with a prompt. One of my initial requests was a season one post episode prompt. (Where were Nick, Schanke and Natalie going after the tag from "Feeding the Beast"?) After thinking it through, I decided I didn't want to be too confining in my prompt, so I changed it and made it more broad. (Nick, Schanke, and Natalie hanging out in season one.) However, and now this is where I'm concerned. Since I don't know if my recipient has recently watched season one, I wanted to offer examples of my favorite public servant trio hanging out to serve as a reminder. I offered episode specific examples. (The tags of LA, DTKY, DK2, and of course my original episode specific prompt from FtB). Yet the more I think about those suggestions, it sounds like I'm trying to sneak in two prompts (or several) in one and the last thing I want to do is start bending rules ( ... )

fkficfestmod March 18 2010, 15:15:40 UTC

All three versions of your sample prompt that you described are acceptable. Please pick the version you like best!

(However, I think that you're perhaps missing a ")" symbol in the sample prompt as written?)

Other people have submitted prompts that -- in form, not content -- resemble all three versions of your sample prompt. It's okay to be episode-specific. It's also okay to be vague! Your writer will choose whichever strikes his/her imagination.

(Personally, I -- Brightknightie -- submitted one specific and two vague prompts.)