Laylah (laylah) wrote in het_challenge, @ 2008-02-01 06:50:00 |
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[admin] May Reversathon, get!
Welcome to the May 2008 round of Het Challenge!
This will be a reversathon, like the one we held on LJ last year in August -- participants will fill out "ad" profiles to let others know what they are interested in writing or drawing, and will receive requests from other participants based on the information they provide. You choose which request(s) sound most interesting, without knowing who suggested them. (If you've never participated in a reversathon before, or haven't been satisfied with how they've gone for you in the past, I have tried to write up some advice for reversathon participants that I hope will be helpful.)
Here's how the process works:
- You'll answer some questions, in a screened post, about what fandoms you're active in and what kinds of stuff you like to make.
- I'll post people's answers, identified only by numbers.
- You'll make your requests -- in a screened post, again -- to the numbered ads.
- You'll receive the requests made to you without any details about the requester.
- You will post your works under your own name. Please post directly into the community, and not with a fake cut or link. You are welcome to pimp or crosspost anywhere you like, as long as there is a copy of your work in the het_challenge community itself.
- The same minimums apply from previous rounds of this challenge: stories should be at least 1000 words, and art should be more than a quick sketch.
- One of the things you'll be asked to provide in the headers when you post your fic/art is the request that you are answering.
- Recipients may identify themselves when works are posted, or they will be revealed at the end of the round when the master list goes up.
- To make this work, please don't discuss the details of requests, whether you gave or received them. (Talking to your beta or your close friends is okay; posting about it publicly is not.)
We will be keeping the CLAIMING LIMIT from last year's round: you may only accept three requests at a time. This means that if you receive two requests, or three requests, you may choose to accept them all; if you receive seven, or twelve, you must choose your top three.
...If you have a lot of time and/or masochism on your hands, you are welcome to claim more on a rolling basis: you may start posting at any time, and once you post your first piece, you may claim a fourth, and so on.
(This is mostly for my sake; it's intended to give me a better idea, earlier in the process, if there are participants whose requests are in danger of going unclaimed and who might benefit from pinch-hitting. When somebody has six requests outstanding and hasn't posted any of them, with three days to go until the deadline, that's very stressful for me as a mod.)
Late in the round, unclaimed prompts will be posted, so that more requests have a chance to get picked up. This won't happen until sometime in April, though, so people who want to finish some early and pick up extras have time to do that before their leftover prompts are handed off to the general populace. ^^
Since claiming will be limited, I will also be TAGGING ADS when they prove to be extremely popular. With claiming limited to three prompts, your odds of getting your request picked up are lowered when someone has a large number to choose from, so I will mark those ads that have seven or more requests (i.e., more than twice as many as the participant may accept). You may still request from a high-volume ad -- just know that you have a lot of competition for that participant's time.
I am going to offer amnesty for all previous defaulters on this round, but please think carefully about whether you want to make the commitment if you've had trouble with deadlines before.
Timeline/deadlines for this round:
Feb 1-15: sign-ups
Feb 16: ads posted
Feb 16-23: request period
Feb 24: requests mailed
March 1: deadline to accept requests
April 15 (?): unclaimed prompts offered to interested parties
May15: deadline
Questions? Comments?
Ready to sign up? head over here.