Narnia Fic Challenge

Okay, I've doublechecked everything, and it all looks good, so I'm sending out assignments. Watch your email!

If, when you get your assignment, you find that you did not offer anything your match requested, let me know right away and I will try to fix things.

Remember in this exchange, you match on characters first, then relationships and freeform tags. Sometimes the match is only made with one character requested/offered. Often multiple offers and requests match (the nature of this being a small fandom exchange), so I encourage you to mix and match from your assignment if you'd like.

If you have any questions, please ask here, or email narniaficexchange@gmail.com. Thank you again for your patience! I will try to have a revised schedule up tomorrow.

Hello all!

Quick update on assignments: we seem to have run into some kind of AO3 glitch which is causing a problem with generating assignments. Basically, it's been generating assignments for three days, which is a LONG time for such a small exchange. In past years it's taken about 20 minutes.

I've submitted a support request to AO3, so hopefully they get back to me soon. Plan B is to do hand-matching, which I have done in the past (as long-time participants know :D).

As soon as I have information from AO3, I will post an update. If it looks like it will be hand-matching, I will let you know when I start that, and give an estimate of how long I think that will take.

Sorry about the delay! I will keep you all posted.

--Snacky

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:

If there are any dealbreakers (for example, writing incest), please note, and you won't be matched with that.


Please note: in the past we have contacted pinch-hitters via email. We will still do that, but we'll also be posting pinch-hits to the comm, and in other venues, so we can find pinch-hitters as fast as possible.

Thank you! :)

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS? :D


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 tagset (thank you, aurilly!):

Freeform Tags & Glossary!

THINGS OF NOTE:

1) This is discussed in the tagset post, but just a reminder: you no longer can request "any." That was leading to problems with matching, and aurilly has made the tags more specific for this reason. However, you can still offer "any", but only offer it if you're open to really writing anyone/thing.

2) 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.

3) People usually ask about how matching works. Basically, the matching is done on character (first, then relationship/freeform), so you're guaranteed to match on at least one of the characters you offered. So if you've offered Aravis in offer 1, and Zardeenah in offer 2, the person you'll be matched with will have requested at least one of those characters.

What often happens is that your recipient might have made request 1 with Aravis, and you offered Aravis in offer 1, so that's what you matched on. But if they've also requested Zardeenah in another request, and you offered her in another offer, then you're certainly free (and encouraged) to use all the other character in your story (unless your recip says something like "DNW a story with these two characters).

Because this is a small single fandom exchange, what tends to happen is that people are matched on one offer/request, but will also mix and match from the other requests. This is fine, and is encouraged (unless there's a specific DNW) if you want to use all the requests as inspiration!


ALSO: still considering what we're going to do for the Tenth Anniversary of the NFE! It will be tied with Madness prompts, so stay tuned for updates.

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

--Snacky

Hello everyone,

It's time to start nominating tags!

NFE 2018 Tag Set

For fandom, we're just using Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis.

You can nominate up to ten characters, up to ten relationships, and up to ten freeforms.

Here's last year's Tag Set, so you can get ideas from there. If there are any questions, please let us know!

aurilly is the Tag Set guru, so watch for a post with explanations, in case you have any questions.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask here, or send an email to narniaficexchange@gmail.com

--Snacky