Difference between revisions of "Fanfic challenges & exchanges"
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'''Regular challenges''' that have a set theme for example a weekly topic may be set. This is popular with shorter fiction forms such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble drabbles.] Flashfic challenges involve writing a story within a set period of time eg one hour or a week | '''Regular challenges''' that have a set theme for example a weekly topic may be set. This is popular with shorter fiction forms such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drabble drabbles.] Flashfic challenges involve writing a story within a set period of time eg one hour or a week | ||
| − | * [http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural100/ Supernatural 100 | + | * [http://community.livejournal.com/supernatural100/ Supernatural 100] - a drabble community with a weekly challenge. It has been in continuous operation since 2005. |
* [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_flashfic/ SPN Flashfic] comm | * [http://community.livejournal.com/spn_flashfic/ SPN Flashfic] comm | ||
* [http://community.livejournal.com/salt_burn_porn/profile Salt Burn Porn] - regular porn fic challenge where participants tag each other with prompts. | * [http://community.livejournal.com/salt_burn_porn/profile Salt Burn Porn] - regular porn fic challenge where participants tag each other with prompts. | ||
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'''Comment fic memes are an informal type of challenge.''' They are usually hosted on personal journals, where the owner will suggest a theme, and then people comment with prompts, which people will write short fics to, that generally fit in the space allowed by a Livejournal comment, although they may continue over several comments. | '''Comment fic memes are an informal type of challenge.''' They are usually hosted on personal journals, where the owner will suggest a theme, and then people comment with prompts, which people will write short fics to, that generally fit in the space allowed by a Livejournal comment, although they may continue over several comments. | ||
| + | * [http://battle.oxoniensis.org/ Porn Battle] - A prompt based, muilti-fandom porn challenge that includes fan fiction/art/vids The first ever Porn Battle was in January 2006, and it's been a twice a year event (in January and June/July) ever since. | ||
Revision as of 02:46, 12 March 2010
A fanfic challenge involves authors committing to write to a set theme, within a set time period. Some popular challenge types are:
Regular challenges that have a set theme for example a weekly topic may be set. This is popular with shorter fiction forms such as drabbles. Flashfic challenges involve writing a story within a set period of time eg one hour or a week
- Supernatural 100 - a drabble community with a weekly challenge. It has been in continuous operation since 2005.
- SPN Flashfic comm
- Salt Burn Porn - regular porn fic challenge where participants tag each other with prompts.
- SPN Herea a team based challenge with team Angst squaring off against Team Shmoop. A member of each team would write on the same prompt and then readers would vote for the winner.
Comment fic memes are an informal type of challenge. They are usually hosted on personal journals, where the owner will suggest a theme, and then people comment with prompts, which people will write short fics to, that generally fit in the space allowed by a Livejournal comment, although they may continue over several comments.
- Porn Battle - A prompt based, muilti-fandom porn challenge that includes fan fiction/art/vids The first ever Porn Battle was in January 2006, and it's been a twice a year event (in January and June/July) ever since.
Writing to a specific theme. Some of the most popular challenges in Supernatural fandom have involved writing fanfic based on the plot of existing books or movies. A series of movie or book titles may be used as prompts.
Broad themes. Some challenges may be very broad in theme and may or not have prompts.
- Spn Apocasmut - a challenge to write porny apocalypse stories
- When The War Is Over - Curtain Fic set after the apocalypse
- SPN meant to be - happy ever after fic
SPN J2 Big Bang: participants sign-up to write stories of over 20,000 words, and are paired with an artist or vidder. Started in 2007 over 13 million words have been written as part of this challenge. In 2010, 687 writers have signed up.
Fic Exchanges run along similar lines to challenges, but here participants will be allocated another participant to write for and have to write a story based on that person's prompts. Often the fics are initially revealed anonymously, with authors revealed later.
- SPN Summergen - Running since 2007, this exchange is for Gen fic, and takes place over the summer hiatus
- Yuletide - an annual panfandom fic exchange for rare fandoms. Supernatural qualified in 2005. Supernatural Yuletide stories
Remix Challenge: In a remix challenge, participants are randomly assigned to each other and they must rewrite a story originally written by their recipient. The core pairing, setting and plot must be retained, but everything else can be changed.
- Remix redux] comm
