Hello all!

Final update to let you know that the authors have been revealed and we have come to the end of another NFE! Thank you all for participating, and thank you especially to the pinch-hitters, especially to ViaLethe and Transposable_Element, for helping to make sure everyone got their stories!

The stories were WONDERFUL this year, and I thank you all again, for contributing so much to the fandom.

The collection will remain open for a while, if anyone still has treats they want to upload.

Hello everyone! Here's what's going on:

The collection should be opening tomorrow, we're just giving a little extra time to finish up pinch-hits.

Normally the collection would be revealed in the morning, but I'm looking at tomorrow evening right now. I'm going to give 7 pm as the time -- it might be earlier, but I will give an hour warning before I open it, in case anyone is working on last minute edits.

If it's going to be later than 7 pm, I will let you know that as well.

Thank you all for your patience, and all the volunteers for the pinch-hits. I really appreciate it!

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!

Hello all! Just letting you know, after a slight delay, matching is going on, and your assignments should be going out sometime today. If you don't have your assignment by midnight tonight, please let me know ASAP!

ETA: ASSIGNMENTS ARE OUT! LET THE WRITING BEGIN! :D

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: (we need an email so folks who need a beta can get in touch with you)


The authors will contact you if they need a beta.

lady_songsmith and aurilly are onboard again as mods, so a hello from all of us to both returning and new NFE folks! Welcome to our new home on Dreamwidth. You don't need a DW journal to participate in the NFE, and can comment anonymously, but please make sure to sign your comment/leave an email if you are a participant/need a follow up.

We'll be running on AO3 again this year. If you need a code for AO3, just leave a comment here with your email, or email narniaficexchange@gmail.com or snacky8@gmail.com and I'll send you one.

Collection on AO3

Tag Set

Tag nominations will open soon, so start thinking of tags! It will work the same way it did last year, and here's last year's Tag Set to refresh your memory. aurilly is the Tag Goddess, so keep your eyes peeled for some posts from her on the topic.

Here is the TENTATIVE* schedule for the exchange:

Tag nominations open: July 5th
Signups open: July 12th
Signups close: July 21st
Assignments sent out: by July 24th
Fics due: anytime before August 26th
Prompts Revealed/Madness: July 13th - September 2nd
Main collection opens: September 3rd
Authors revealed: September 10th

*Reasons for the tentativeness of this schedule: getting tags finalized before the assignments go out, and any AO3 glitches like last year where I couldn't generate assignments. I will make sure to update the schedule in this comm, if there are changes.

This year instead of a Madness/Treats collection, we'll be posting treats in the main collection. You will need to tag them as treats. Prompts will be revealed about two weeks into the writing period, and that will give you time to write treats. Due to the reveal of prompts, obviously the exchange will not be double-blind (as it used to be in years past) and you will know who you are writing for.

As usual, Madness is not mandatory, but it's always fun. And if you choose not to participate in the Main Exchange and just in Madness, that's fine!

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. You cannot request crossovers and fanverses only, though, as your assigned writer may not be familiar with the other fandom/fanverse. So remember to include some canonical requests.

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 unlikely (I mean, it's never ever happened before) 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. Start thinking up tags, watch this space for more announcements, and ask any questions you have and we will try to answer them! You can email at narniaficexchange@gmail.com too.