Narnia Fic Challenge

Hey everyone! Are you ready to roll back into Narnia?

Here's the schedule for this round of the Narnia Fic Exchange:

Tag nominations open: June 17th
Signups open: June 30th
Signups close: July 14th
Assignments sent out: by July 19th
Fics due: any time before August 24th
Prompts Revealed: August 2nd
Collection opens: September 1st
Authors revealed: September 8th

As always, this is subject to change based on AO3 glitches, people needing extensions, and hurricanes (all past issues!), but this is the what we're going with for now.

I'll post again when tag nominations are open, and aurilly will be around to explain tags if there are any questions.

Oh, and here's the collection on A03: NFE 2019

(Please remember all schedule times are approximate. Actual times will be posted here.)

Yes, that’s right, you have until MIDNIGHT AUGUST 1 to sign up.

(See previous post for explanation of how we handle time zones and deadlines regarding them.)

You have this extra time for 2 reasons:

1) Due to my iPad not playing well with DW in terms of making links, the link in the last post didn’t work. So I’m going to put the link here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Narnia_Fic_Exchange_2018/signups/new

I did not use any coding here, so you may just have to go old school and copy and paste it into your browser to sign up.

2) There’s issues with a few of the sign-ups, so we’re leaving sign-ups open to give people a chance to fix those. You’ll be contacted via email if there’s a problem with your sign up.

Okay? Any questions, feel free to ask here!

Reminder: your stories are due by tonight, at midnight!

I'm not a stickler on time zones. Midnight your time is when the fics are due. I'll be checking first thing tomorrow morning, if you need that last bit of cushion. :)

Also: I am aware that Hurricane Irma might throw off some participants' ability to post (to say the very least). I've already heard from one person on this issue.

If you're likely to be affected by the storm, please don't worry about the NFE! Your safety is far more important than your story, and we will find pinch-hitters if necessary.

What this means to everyone else: please watch your email and the community for pinch-hits! I don't expect this to be a big issue, and we've always been able to open the collection on time, but if people need time to finish up their stories, we'll delay the opening to make sure everything is complete.

As always: thank you for understanding, for participating in the NFE, and for being such a lovely group!

Yes, finally! Well, still a few days early, but finally to me, since I've been wrestling with them since Sunday. :D

Anyway, you should all have your assigned recipient. If you have not received an email, let me know ASAP, and I'll figure out what went wrong. Remember, your story is due any time before August 31st, at midnight.

Happy writing!

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 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 whatever reason and someone steps up to write the abandoned request. That someone is the pinch-hitter.


This post will be screened. Your name will be added to the pinch-hitter list, and if we need a pinch hitter, you'll receive an email with the prompt details.


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

Name:
Email:

Thank you! :)

Thanks to everyone who signed up, we have a great turnout this year!

I'll be working on the matching, and you'll have your assignments no later than Sunday, July 12th.

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 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 whatever reason and someone steps up to write the abandoned request. That someone is the pinch-hitter.


This post will be screened. Your name will be added to the pinch-hitter list, and if we need a pinch hitter, you'll receive an email with the prompt details.


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

Name:
Email:


Thank you! :)


ETA: For some reason, I can't get automatic comment screening to work on this entry, but I will be screening the comments after the fact. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Yes, that's right, signups are finally open! Get your requests and offers ready to go!


Here is a handy tutorial on how to sign up for an fic exchange on AO3:

Handy tutorial!

Here is the link to the signup form:

Signup form!

Here is the tagset:

Tagset!

Info about the freeform tags:

Freeform Tags & Glossary!

NOTE: Because there was some confusion about this last year:

Remember, if you have multiple prompts, you can make multiple (up to five) requests! All your prompts don't have to be in one request. I am mentioning this because last year some people's prompts had more characters than they had requested, because you can only request five characters per request. But if you make more than one request, you can request more characters.

Also, if you are requesting relationships, make sure to request those characters as well! The matching will be done by characters first! If you haven't requested those characters, but want them in a relationship, you're unlikely to be matched on those.

( Here is an example of how multiple requests would look... )

So you can see I had five prompts, so I made five requests. I was able to request more than five characters, because I used the multiple requests. I also requested relationships, AND the characters involved in those relationships.


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