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So, guess what? I'm participating in the H/D World Cup this year!
What is the H/D World Cup, you say?
It's artists and authors coming together to form three teams: The AU team, the EWE team, and Team Epilogue. The AU team writes alternate universe stories - stories where Harry never went to Hogwarts, where both Harry and Draco are Muggles, where there's a divergence in canon and things turn out very differently. EWE stands for Epilogue? What Epilogue?, and includes stories that follow canon exactly, minus - you guessed it - the Epilogue. Finally, there are the stories that take the Epilogue into account and yet still pair our famous characters. Each author in each team receives a challenge that can work for their genre, then produces an H/D fic based on that challenge.
Two months of feverish writing commence.
Then the voting begins. Viewers vote on the quality of the story - was it good? - and then the appropriateness of the story - did it answer the challenge well? - etc. The team who has garnered the most (average?) pointage in the end wins the cup.
Normally, I'd be asking everyone who reads this journal (all three of you?) for oodles of advice. Unfortunately, while I'm allowed to tell you I'm on the AU team (go AU!) I am not allowed to tell you what my challenge is, or what my plot-skeleton currently looks like. (Filling out, actually. Am pleased.) However, I will tell you this: go to the H/D World Cup and check it out! You can get an AU banner to support me, if you would like. :)
Also will tell you this: HELP! HOW DO YOU POST THE FICTIONS ON LJ?!!?!?
artwork by red_rahl banner by elanorofcastile
What is the H/D World Cup, you say?
It's artists and authors coming together to form three teams: The AU team, the EWE team, and Team Epilogue. The AU team writes alternate universe stories - stories where Harry never went to Hogwarts, where both Harry and Draco are Muggles, where there's a divergence in canon and things turn out very differently. EWE stands for Epilogue? What Epilogue?, and includes stories that follow canon exactly, minus - you guessed it - the Epilogue. Finally, there are the stories that take the Epilogue into account and yet still pair our famous characters. Each author in each team receives a challenge that can work for their genre, then produces an H/D fic based on that challenge.
Two months of feverish writing commence.
Then the voting begins. Viewers vote on the quality of the story - was it good? - and then the appropriateness of the story - did it answer the challenge well? - etc. The team who has garnered the most (average?) pointage in the end wins the cup.
Normally, I'd be asking everyone who reads this journal (all three of you?) for oodles of advice. Unfortunately, while I'm allowed to tell you I'm on the AU team (go AU!) I am not allowed to tell you what my challenge is, or what my plot-skeleton currently looks like. (Filling out, actually. Am pleased.) However, I will tell you this: go to the H/D World Cup and check it out! You can get an AU banner to support me, if you would like. :)
Also will tell you this: HELP! HOW DO YOU POST THE FICTIONS ON LJ?!!?!?
artwork by red_rahl banner by elanorofcastile