Admin: NFE News

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Hello, folks!

Well, the plan was to run the NFE on the AO3 this year, but the AO3 has been having lots of technical issues, which were making it very difficult for me to create the collection/challenge over there. I was also worried about the difficulty people would have in signing up, what with all the downtime and errors, and we were getting down to the wire in terms of signups and writing time.

So we're going to stay on LJ one more year. I am going to put up the signup, beta, and pinch-hitter posts in a little while, along with new rules and submission guidelines, so stayed tuned! We also might need some volunteers to help with modding this year, since caramelsilver doesn't have much time, so if you're interested in that, let me know.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in comments, or email narniaficexchange@gmail.com

NFE 2012 Rules

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The Narnia Fic Exchange is an annual anonymous fic exchange, similar to Secret Santas and other fanwork gift exchanges.

Participants submit a request, with prompt ideas such as characters, situations, and themes. The mods match these requests with another participant, who then writes the requested fic. All participants receive a fic based on their request/prompt. The authors are anonymous until all the stories have been posted.

Please read this thoroughly before signing up for the exchange.

Important dates:
Sign-ups open: 11 June
Sign-ups ends: 20 June
Prompts sent out: 25 June
Fics due: 28 July
Posting begins: 5/6 August


Most important:

1) You must submit a story of 1000 words by the deadline. If you need an extension, you must contact us before the deadline to arrange this. If the deadline passes and we do not have your fic, it will be assigned to a pinch-hitter.

2) You must use a beta. Repeat: YOU MUST USE A BETA. Repeat one more time: YOU MUST USE A BETA. If you do not have a beta, check our beta post. If you turn in an unbetaed story, it will be returned to you for corrections. If you do not return the story with corrections, your assignment will got to a pinch-hitter.

3) If you need to drop out (which, no problem, life happens and we totally understand this, having dropped out of exchanges/challenges ourselves!), YOU MUST CONTACT US TO LET US KNOW. There are many ways to contact us: via email, via PM, or via comment on an admin post in the comm. If you drop out without contacting us, you may be banned from future fic exchanges. We have been burned too many times and had to scramble to find pinch-hitters to want to give unlimited chances. There is no penalty for dropping out, as long as you let us know.

Summary: You must submit a beta-read story of 1000 words by the deadline. If you need an extension, you must contact us to arrange this. If you need to drop out, you must contact us to let us know, or else you may be banned from future exchanges.

( Longer version of the rules! )

The Official Beta Post

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This is the post where you sign up for beta duty. It doesn't matter if you're a member and plan on participating or just watching the community for fun. If you are a beta reader and are willing to help our wonderful writers, please sign up!


Copy and paste this in the comments and fill in the details:

Name:
Email: (if you are not comfortable with giving out your email, just write PM here, and make sure that your LJ can receive PM's from users that are not your friends.)


The authors will contact you if they need a beta.

The Official Pinch-Hitter Post

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Please, please, please sign up for pinch-hitting* here. Last year there were a few fics that needed pinch-hitting, and it'll probably happen this round too.

Same rules apply as when signing up for beta duty. You don't have to be a member/participant in the exchange to be a pinch-hitter, just someone who can turn around a thousand word fic in a short time frame.

*Pinch-hitting is what happens when a writer drops out of the exchange for some reason and someone steps up to write the abandoned request. That someone is the pinch-hitter.


This post will be screened and you'll only be contacted, if needed, by the mods.


Copy and paste this into the comments and fill it out:

Name:
Email:
Fic I won't write for anything in the world:


Thank you! :)

NFE 2012 Submission guidelines

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( You will find the Submissions Guidelines back here. These are a must-read! )

Sign Up for the Narnia Fic Exchange 2012

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The signups for the Narnia Fic Exchange 2012 are finally open! Fill out the form below and that's all you have to do.

Signups close June 20th. You will receive your prompt by June 25th. Then you'll have until July 28th to work on your fic, and send it in. That's over a month and should be plenty of time for you all to finish your stories. We hope. ;)


Copy and paste this into the comments and fill it out. All comments will be screened.


<b>Name:</b> <b>Email:</b> <b>What I definitely won't write: </b> <b>What I want:</b> (e.g. specific ship or character, England fic, Golden Age fic, AU, set during a ball, someone falls ill, whatever, etc.) <b>Prompt words/objects/quotes/whatever:</b> <b>What I definitely don't want in my fic:</b>

Read through the rules before signing up HERE. Read through the submission guidelines HERE. Sign up for beta duty HERE. Sign up for pinch hitting HERE.