Snowflake Challenge, Day 3

[edenfalling]

snowflake_challenge Day 3: Pimp your favorite communities, fests or challenges!

I feel like everybody knows about Yuletide and the concept of remix challenges, yeah? So I will talk about some smaller ones!

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First, there is the Narnia Fic Exchange, aka narniaexchange, run by the inimitable snacky and aurilly. This is a small single-fandom exchange run annually in the late summer/early fall, which does exactly what it says on the tin. The quality of fanworks is quite high and people are generous with feedback. I have been participating since 2011 and it is one of the highlights of my fannish year. :D

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I also enjoy wipbigbang, though I don't participate every year. I feel like their profile blurb explains their purpose better than I could, so I will just quote it here:

Got a rough draft of that fanfic you started writing but then real life made you abandon it? Is it just sitting around in a folder, gathering dust and making you feel guilty every time you glance at the file or think about that pairing? Do you want an opportunity to sit down and finish it like your greatest enemy in Mortal Kombat?

You've come to the right place!

Greetings. We are the WIP Big Bang and our goal is to take the stories we've already started and to finish them by [date subject to change]. We are an all-fandoms-welcome exchange and will have artist claims and everything. It's like a real Big Bang, with a twist. You only need at least 500 words of a story you've already written prior to signing up and the goal isn't a word count* but to finish the thing.

So, are you ready to defeat that WIP?

(*to make it worthwhile for our artists, we do request that stories do end up being over 7500 words!)

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And third is the Three Sentence Ficathon! This is a concept more than a fixed challenge; I have participated in iterations hosted by caramelsilver over on LJ, and by rthstewart here on Dreamwidth, at varying times of the year. The basic idea is like any prompt meme -- people leave prompts (signed or anonymous) and other people fill them -- but the fills can only be three sentences long. It's extremely multi-fandom and open to original fic as well. And if you run over the three-sentence limit? Oh well, stories do that sometimes. ;)

This is a very friendly and low-pressure event. It's also a great way to dabble in fandoms you enjoy but aren't necessarily comfortable enough with to write a full-length story.

I believe rthstewart plans to host another Three Sentence Ficathon iteration starting February 1st, so keep an eye out and come have fun!

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

Three Sentence Ficathon sounds AWESOME!

Thanks for the rec.

♥

[edenfalling]

It's a lot of fun, and the more people who participate the more fun it is!

[rthstewart]

3SF it is coming...

[violsva]

Ooh, I am glad to hear that about 3 Sentence Ficathon. I was too exhausted to sign up for Chocolate Box last night and now I have something else small and fun and fannish to look forward to.

[edenfalling]

:DDD

[rthstewart]

Compound sentences are coming...

[edenfalling]

My god, it's full of semi-colons! ;)

[tellshannon815]

I love Three Sentence Ficathon! I'd been wondering whether there was going to be one before Christmas since it's been at that time in the past, happy to hear it'll be February!

[edenfalling]

Isn't it wonderful? :D Three weeks to go!