You have until tomorrow night to signup for this year's NFE! Signups will be open until 11:59 p.m. EDT, so you still have time!

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!

This is the post where you sign up for beta duty. You don't have to be a member of this comm, or participating in the exchange to be a beta. If you are willing to help the 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.

1) I was going to close signups tonight at midnight, but due to me having internet connectivity problems, I'm going to leave them open for 24 more hours. So if you haven't signed up, know someone who still wants to sign up, or if you want to edit your signup, you have time.

2) Prompt fest! Again, internet connectivity issues kept me from posting this earlier, but please feel free to post some prompts in the comments! Go wild! :D

I am waiting for a repair person tomorrow, so hopefully my internet issues will be fixed by tomorrow night, but if not, I'll keep you posted. I do have a backup plan in place, so things should be moving smoothly from now on.

This is the post where you sign up for beta duty. You don't have to be a member of this comm, or participating in the exchange to be a beta. If you are willing to help the 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.

Yes, it's that time again! Start thinking up what you want to nominate and request, because all the Narnia fic will be yours soon!

Last year was a success, so we're running on AO3 again this year. If you need a code for AO3, just email me and I'll send you one.

Collection on AO3

Tag Set

Tag nominations are open now! It will work the same way it did last year, so you might want to refer back to those posts to refresh your memories when nominating.

Here are the important dates for the exchange:

Tag nominations open: June 9th
Signups open: June 24th
Signups close: July 5th
Assignments sent out: by July 12th
Fics due: anytime before August 23rd
Madness: August 23rd - August 30th
Collections opens: August 30th
Authors revealed: September 6th

These are pretty firm right now. It worked out really well last time for everyone to have more than a month of writing time, so that's back. The collections will open on August 30th, as long as everyone has a story (if we're waiting on pinch-hitters, it will be later than the posted time).

As you can see, I've built a Madness Round into the schedule, since people enjoyed that last year, but it's not mandatory. And if you just want to participate in the Madness Round, that's fine too.

Obviously the exchange will not be double-blind (as it has been in years past) you will know who you are writing for. If people want to write "Dear NFE Writer" letters and post them on LJ/Dreamwidth/Tumblr/wherever, that is fine, but not mandatory! You can put everything you want in your signup, if you like.

In the past, you've been allowed to request crossovers, and fic set in other people's fanverses. You can still do that, but those will have to go in the optional details part of the signup.

There will also be a box in the offer part of the signup where you, as a writer, can talk about what you like to write, and also put ONE OR TWO dealbreakers of what you can't write (for example, "no incest and I hate Edmund Pevensie"). Bear in mind that it would be extremely unusual in this exchange for you to say, "I can't write slash" and then get matched to someone who only requests slash. Most participants offer several options of what they want, and I don't see this changing.

Okay, I think that's it for now. Go forth, nominate, and ask any questions you have and I will try to answer them! You can email at narniaficexchange@gmail.com too.

Hi folks! Just wanted to let you know there's going to be an exchange this year - I am just off to a particularly late start.

I am hoping to do the entire exchange on AO3 this year, so if you don't have an account there yet, now is a good time to sign up. If you need an invitation, let me know, I have some codes.

The only thing left to do is test the signups. I've always handmatched the participants before, but with AO3, I have the chance to do automated matching. I'm not sure how well this will work, since we're kind of a detail-heavy exchange, so I want to test it, based primarily on fandom (book, movie) and characters (there's a list of 19 so far, if you want to add others, let me know) matching. There's a field for details, and also a field where you can link to your journal, tumblr, etc, if you want to post more for your writer.

I AM NOT SURE HOW WELL THIS IS GOING TO WORK, and I might end up doing handmatching in the end, since it's a small enough exchange for that. But I want to test the signups, and that's where you come in! If you can just go here and signup (link will be on your left), I can do a test matching run and see what problems might come up.

Please let me know if/how it works for you, and any suggestions/comments/questions you have! That's on everything - let me know if the rules are clear, if you need clarification on anything, etc.

THIS IS NOT YOUR OFFICIAL SIGN-UP! THIS IS JUST A TEST! All signups will be deleted and you will have to signup again when the NFE officially opens.

Thanks for all your help!