Narnia Fic Challenge

Thank you, as always, for a great exchange! We'll see you next year!

Hello everyone! Thank you for getting all your stories in! I'm checking to see if we need pinch-hitters, and will post here and email the pinch-hitters if any are needed.

Hello all!

I've received a couple of requests for extensions, because evidently August 27th is deadline heavy, haha!

So I'm pushing back the due date for the stories. You now need to have your story submitted by September 3rd. This pushes back the other dates as well. Fics will now be revealed on September 11th, and authors on September 18th.

Please remember when you submit your story by the September 3rd deadline that it should be complete. It's fine if you do some editing during the week before reveals, but the fic you submit should pass the bus test: if you got hit by a bus, your recipient would have a gift. Grim, but that's life in the fic exchange world.

Enjoy your extra week of writing! :D

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.

Comments to 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/message 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 TO WRITE NARNIA FIC?! Good, because now is the time! :D

This is a pretty long post, but it answers questions and explains things, so please read the whole thing.


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

Handy tutorial!

If you want to sign up, but don't have an AO3 account, email me at snacky8@gmail.com or narniaficexchange@gmail.com and I will get you an invite.

Here is the link to the signup form:

Signup form!

Here is the tagset:

Tagset!



THINGS OF NOTE:

1) Reminder: same as the last couple of years, you cannot request "any." We had too many problems with matching, and aurilly made the tags more specific for this reason. However, you can still offer "any," but only offer it if you're really open to writing anyone/thing.


2) Reminder: you can only request relationships as characters. You will see in the tag set characters groupings which are either platonic (e.g., "Group: Character A & Character B") or romantic/sexual (e.g., "Group: Character A/Character B").

This means if you want a specific combo of characters (either platonic or romantic/sexual), you have to specifically request that tag. So if you want a story about Edmund Pevensie/Bacchus, you need to request Group: Edmund Pevensie/Bacchus. If you simply request both characters, there is no guarantee that you will be matched with someone who wants to write those characters together.

This is also how you should request crossovers with specific characters. The crossover characters won't have individual character tags, but will be in a group with a Narnian character (e.g., Group: Aslan & Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) & Ahsoka Tano (Star Wars)).

You can still request crossovers in your optional details, with something like, "I'd really like a Narnia/Star Wars crossover" but this does not guarantee a specific match.


3) For matching, you are matched primarily on characters (so individual characters and groups). If there is no match there, you can be matched on the additional tags.

But remember, because this is a small single fandom exchange, what tends to happen is that people are matched on one offer/request, but writers will also mix and match from the other requests.

For example, 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 characters/freeforms you have in common in your story (unless your recip says something like "DNW a story with these two characters, or in this situation").


4) About crossovers: as in previous years, you can request crossovers, but they can't be your only request. There's no way to guarantee that your writer will be familiar with the other fandom. Same with requests set in specific ficverses - you can, for example, request a story set in rthstewart's ficverse, but you must be considerate and have other requests, because not everyone knows that 'verse. Before you request a story set in someone else's ficverse, just make sure the original author is okay with that. That's on you -- the mods are not going to check with authors about this. As well, you should not set stories in someone else's ficverse, unless the person has specifically requested that ficverse.


5) There won't be a separate collection for treats this year, but after the assignments are sent out, all the requests will be open for treating. You can upload these treats to the main collection. Just tag them as treats.



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

--Snacky

Hello NFE folks! It's time to get this party started, and you know how we start? With tag nominations!

The tag set is open, HERE, now through July 6th!

Important Notes:
* Use "Chronicles of Narnia - C. S. Lewis" as the fandom for all character/pairing nominations. Only nominations for the book fandom will be accepted.
* Individual Characters: Please nominate with the character's full name (as far as it is known).
* Character AND platonic or sexual/relationship nominations should go in the "Character" field of the tagset.
* Romantic/Sexual Ships: please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "/". Only nominate, request and offer using the / version if you want a sexual or romantic take. If you only intend to request ships, you do NOT need to nominate the individual characters as well. Signups for ship requests should only have the pairing, NOT the individual characters as well.
* Platonic Pairings or Groups: Please put the word "Group:" in front of the pairing. Please nominate using characters' full names, separated by a "&". Same note as above about not needing to nominate individual characters if you only intend to request gen groups.

If you want a crossover, you should nominate your crossover characters as a group, with the Narnia character you want to see them interact with. Make sure you include the fandom for the crossover character. For example: Group: Susan Pevensie/Dream of the Endless (The Sandman)

This year, I've pre-approved several characters since there was some confusion about it last year. I've also pre-approved a few extra character options to optimize matching for people who want worldbuilding and/or who don't care much which specific characters appear in their fic. Ex. "Original Female Character", "Any Female Character", "Character Who Appeared Entirely Off-Screen."

Freeform Tags

I've also added several standard freeforms, such as time periods. While the periods are defined by what happened in the country of Narnia, requests for these tags can be for anywhere in that world at that time.

Narnian World Time Periods (taken from the Narnia wiki)
— Age of Conquest: Birth of Narnia through right before White Witch seizes power
— Age of Winter: White Witch’s reign
— Golden Age: Pevensies’ reign
— Dark Age: Narnia in anarchy
— Telmarine Age: Telmarine conquest through right before Caspian X’s coronation
— Age of Exploration: Caspian X’s reign
— Later Ages: Rilian’s reign onwards
— Post-Canon - Earth: set on Earth after TLB

As usual, not all freeforms will get approved, since we want to keep the tagset small, focused on Narnia-specific concepts, and understandable to everyone without explanation.


Remember, tags are there to help with your requests and offers. If a character or group hasn't been nominated, you can't be matched on it.