Three-fandom Holiday Ficlet and Drabble Exchange

The deadline for submissions is 11 December 2009, so you still have almost 2 weeks - lots of time. *g*

If you anticipate not having your ficlet ready for submission on time, please let me know ASAP, by commenting here or by email. Because posting will start shortly after the deadline, extensions really aren't possible, so I'll need to find someone to pinch-hit if you can't finish. But remember, a drabble is sufficient -- the maximum is 2000 words, but the minimum only 100 words!

Email your ficlet to 3fan DOT hols AT gmail DOT com, as an attachment in .doc, .docx, .rtf, .wpd, or .txt format. The header info to include is:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> [will be removed before posting] <b>Recipient:</b> <b>Fandom:</b> <b>Characters or Pairing:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> [if applicable] <b>Summary:</b> <b>Notes:</b> [if applicable]

Assignments have just been emailed to all participants! Please reply to the email to let me know that you received yours. If you didn't get it, please comment here on LJ to let me know so I can resend and/or verify your email.

Also, if for some reason you cannot write the assignment you've been given, again, let me know ASAP.

Ficlets will be due in four weeks, on December 11. I will put up information on headers etc. in the next couple of weeks.

Sign-ups for the 2009 exchange end Wednesday at midnight PST - the sign-up post is here on LJ!

Comments are screened, so you should be able to see your own (and only your own) after signing up.

This year I'm going to cross-post headers and links, though the actual fics will only be posted on LJ and I will disable comments on IJ.

There is a poll over at LJ - if you're interested in participating this year, please go there to take it. Thanks!

Link to the poll

3fan_holidays was created as a holiday exchange in three fandoms: Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and Pirates of the Caribbean. It has always been a small one, both in terms of number of participants and (deliberately) in the length of the fics written for it, with the intention of keeping things low-key and fun rather than stressful for those involved.

I chose those three fandoms because they were the ones in which I wrote when I started the fest, and my idea was that if anyone bailed at the last minute, I could manage to write any needed pinch-hits. These days, though, I write in other fandoms as well; History Boys and Narnia most often, and I've also written Good Omens, L.M. Alcott, and Jane Austen fics (and will probably have written Swordspoint fic by the time the 2008 holidays roll around).

So. Given that I neither want nor am able to rival yuletide, would people who might be interested in participating in this year's exchange also be interested in adding one or more new fandoms to the traditional lineup of HP, LotR, and PotC? There are TWO polls behind the cut - please take the first poll if you have participated in one or more of the past three exchanges. Take the second poll if you've never participated. Thanks!

[Note: I may also revisit how the fest works, but first things first!]

Both polls are on LJ, to make it easier to keep track!

( Poll for those who have participated in 3fan_holidays before )

( Poll for those who might participate in 3fan_holidays this year )

Posting has begun for the 3fan_holidays exchange. All fic will be posted at the LJ community: 3fan_holidays.

The 3fan_holidays community is basically an LJ exchange, but I've made this as a placeholder on IJ and might mirror or link posts here. Still deciding.