ADMIN: Secret Santa 2012 Check-in
Well, it’s that time of year again. There’s a chill in the air, the stores are playing Christmas music, and here in the U.S. everyone is getting ready for Thanksgiving turkey. More importantly, it’s almost the deadline for the 2012 Secret Santa Fic Exchange!
That’s right - there are only two weeks until the Secret Santa fics are due! *cue panic* Your fics should be e-mailed to thfanfic@gmail.com by midnight your time Friday, November 30.
We hope that all of you are having a good time working on your fics, and we’d really like to know how things are going. Are you almost finished? Looking for a beta? Are you stuck but working hard to keep going through writers’ block? Please let us know!
The comments here are going to be screened. We’d appreciate it if you gave us a status update to let us know you're still with us, and how things are going. Also, if there's any support you need, please feel to ask, tweet us, post about it - just ask for help!
Remember: Secret Santa is an exchange, but if something happens to prevent you from submitting your story by the deadline (and hey, life happens; we've all experienced it), then you must let the mods know PRIOR TO THE DEADLINE. If you notify us prior to the deadline that you're going to have to drop out of the exchange, that still gives us enough time to find a pinch hitter for your assignment. If you do not notify the mods of your need to drop out prior to the deadline, you will be banned from further participation in challenges and exchanges in the com.
Here are some things to keep in mind as you’re finishing up:
1. Your fic MUST be a minimum of 2,500 words.
2. The fic MUST be no longer than 30K - or three Livejournal posts. You can test this on your own journal using private entries to make sure it fits.
3. The fic MUST be completed and not the first part of a massive multi-parter story. This is an exchange, and your fic should be complete, not a story with an IOU at the end.
4. The fic MUST have been beta-read by someone. If you are having trouble finding someone, ask the mods and we will find someone, or we'll post to th_fanfic to ask for volunteers.
5. If you have a banner, please place it inside the LJ cut because not all stories will have them.
6. We can accept DOC, rtf, and Open Office files. If you cannot convert to one of these, contact a mod. If you are writing in "docx," please make sure to put in an extra hard return between paragraphs because .docx is weird and hates us. If you don’t put in an extra manual return, your story will post without a space between paragraphs.
7. We post in HTML, so if you want any special formatting, italics, bold, make sure it's included in your file. Check out this handy html code chart if you're not sure what to use.
8. Include this header at the top of your submission:
Title:
Author:
Pairing(s):
Rating:
Warnings:
Disclaimer:
Summary:
FQF Prompt:
Author's notes:
Remember, if you have any problems or questions, you can always reach us at thfanfic@gmail.com. You can also PM fyredancer or zeph317toho.
Good luck and good writing!
That’s right - there are only two weeks until the Secret Santa fics are due! *cue panic* Your fics should be e-mailed to thfanfic@gmail.com by midnight your time Friday, November 30.
We hope that all of you are having a good time working on your fics, and we’d really like to know how things are going. Are you almost finished? Looking for a beta? Are you stuck but working hard to keep going through writers’ block? Please let us know!
The comments here are going to be screened. We’d appreciate it if you gave us a status update to let us know you're still with us, and how things are going. Also, if there's any support you need, please feel to ask, tweet us, post about it - just ask for help!
Remember: Secret Santa is an exchange, but if something happens to prevent you from submitting your story by the deadline (and hey, life happens; we've all experienced it), then you must let the mods know PRIOR TO THE DEADLINE. If you notify us prior to the deadline that you're going to have to drop out of the exchange, that still gives us enough time to find a pinch hitter for your assignment. If you do not notify the mods of your need to drop out prior to the deadline, you will be banned from further participation in challenges and exchanges in the com.
Here are some things to keep in mind as you’re finishing up:
1. Your fic MUST be a minimum of 2,500 words.
2. The fic MUST be no longer than 30K - or three Livejournal posts. You can test this on your own journal using private entries to make sure it fits.
3. The fic MUST be completed and not the first part of a massive multi-parter story. This is an exchange, and your fic should be complete, not a story with an IOU at the end.
4. The fic MUST have been beta-read by someone. If you are having trouble finding someone, ask the mods and we will find someone, or we'll post to th_fanfic to ask for volunteers.
5. If you have a banner, please place it inside the LJ cut because not all stories will have them.
6. We can accept DOC, rtf, and Open Office files. If you cannot convert to one of these, contact a mod. If you are writing in "docx," please make sure to put in an extra hard return between paragraphs because .docx is weird and hates us. If you don’t put in an extra manual return, your story will post without a space between paragraphs.
7. We post in HTML, so if you want any special formatting, italics, bold, make sure it's included in your file. Check out this handy html code chart if you're not sure what to use.
8. Include this header at the top of your submission:
Title:
Author:
Pairing(s):
Rating:
Warnings:
Disclaimer:
Summary:
FQF Prompt:
Author's notes:
Remember, if you have any problems or questions, you can always reach us at thfanfic@gmail.com. You can also PM fyredancer or zeph317toho.
Good luck and good writing!