Dai stiho! It's that time of the month again: I'm trying to think of more ways to get some active participation here at myriadwords. We've had some great fic posted over the last few months, which naturally makes me incredibly proud and pleased; thanks to all the authors for posting here, I appreciate every one of you! On the other hand, the fic challenges ( Read more... )

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Hi gang, back again to do my handwavy mod thing. On my last post where I asked for suggestions, most people- okay, everyone- suggested that drabble challenges were the way to go, as they were way more likely to get people involved. There was no opinion either way on the monthly vs weekly thing, and semiramis_mei suggested that a good thing to do would be ( Read more... )

Also, since tags have been activated since I was last paying attention ( Read more... )

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Hi folks, just a reminder that the Claim-a-Challenge is due in in a little over a month and a half- yes, it's nearly half-way through July- so if you're like me, and a little slow, it's definitely time to start writing! Remember that if you want a beta, you can email me at labellementeuse(at)hotmail(dot)com and I'll hook you up with someone, or go ( Read more... )

HERE IS THE COMPLETE LIST OF CHALLENGES. COMMENT TO CLAIM A CHALLENGE. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED: THIS POST WILL STAY OPEN TILL EVERYONE WHO SIGNED UP HAS COMMENTED.
ETA: Claims are now CLOSED. Everyone who signed up for the challenge has claimed one, meaning that anyone is now free to write non-claimed challenges from this list. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ( Read more... )

In the poll in youngwizards, a bunch of people said that they'd be happy to beta-read for this challenge. This is me taking you up on that: if you would be willing to beta-read fic for this challenge, please comment here with
Your name or username
Your email address
Anything you cannot or will not beta.I'll respect people's preference in this: if you tell me ( Read more... )

This is the 24 hour warning for the challenge post! ALL FICCERS NEED TO READ THIS!

243 hours from now, at 10 am New Zealand time, I am going to post the list of challenges available to the participating ficcers. Ficcers can then claim challenges by commenting on this post on a first-come, first-served basis- in other words, if someone beats you to ( Read more... )

The challenge submission post is now CLOSED: NO MORE CHALLENGES MAY BE SUBMITTED.

Thanks to everyone who submitted challenges- I really appreciate it and so do the rest of the ficcers.

Details on Challenge Claiming
Some time very soon, I am going to put up a post with all the challenges in it. ONLY THOSE WHO HAVE SIGNED UP FOR THE CHALLENGE MAY ( Read more... )