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Gen ficathon - discussion post the second
Okay ... walking the dogs tonight, I was thinking about the various ideas that have been batted around lately for setting up a gen ficathon, as well as some of the stuff that I like to play with (e.g. different writers working off the same prompt). See if this sounds completely nuts to you. Obviously this is not How Things Have To Be(TM), but just one possible way of setting up the "rules".
Let's have seven different fic "genres", one for each day of the week -- e.g. angst, friendship, team, humor, etc. When people sign up (anonymously, via screened comments) they request which genre they'd like to write -- with a couple of backup choices in the inevitable case that nobody can get their first choice. After the writing period is over, stories will be posted one per day, going week by week 'till we run out of stories -- Monday might be Angst day (isn't it usually?), Tuesday for Humor, etc.
Each week has a prompt -- so the first seven stories, for example, might all be written off the prompt "Steampunk" or "Memories of childhood" or "Trust" or "Pink" or ... well, whatever. You don't know what your prompt is going to be 'till it's emailed to you; all you know is that six other people are going to be writing very different sorts of stories from the same prompt. And nobody but the writers knows what the prompts are until the unveiling of the stories begins.
Stories are all anonymous until the big writer reveal, at the very end, once all the stories have been posted.
The signups would be in January/early February, after everyone's had time to recover from the holidays. Writers get 2-3 months to write their story. Minimum 2000 words (negotiable) but I doubt if I'd be a hardass about it. (I like the idea of a higher minimum word count, but I think people are right: no sense in scaring folks off by setting the bar too high. 2000 words should be do-able for most writers, and gives enough space to tell a decent story while still having the possibility of going longer, if desired.)
ETA: Okay, still thinking. How about these genres?
-Monday: Angst
-Tuesday: Humor
-Wednesday: Team
-Thursday: Friendship
-Friday: Action/adventure
-Saturday: AU
-Sunday: Anything goes!
Thoughts? Is this too complicated? Too ambitious? Not ambitious enough? Help!
Let's have seven different fic "genres", one for each day of the week -- e.g. angst, friendship, team, humor, etc. When people sign up (anonymously, via screened comments) they request which genre they'd like to write -- with a couple of backup choices in the inevitable case that nobody can get their first choice. After the writing period is over, stories will be posted one per day, going week by week 'till we run out of stories -- Monday might be Angst day (isn't it usually?), Tuesday for Humor, etc.
Each week has a prompt -- so the first seven stories, for example, might all be written off the prompt "Steampunk" or "Memories of childhood" or "Trust" or "Pink" or ... well, whatever. You don't know what your prompt is going to be 'till it's emailed to you; all you know is that six other people are going to be writing very different sorts of stories from the same prompt. And nobody but the writers knows what the prompts are until the unveiling of the stories begins.
Stories are all anonymous until the big writer reveal, at the very end, once all the stories have been posted.
The signups would be in January/early February, after everyone's had time to recover from the holidays. Writers get 2-3 months to write their story. Minimum 2000 words (negotiable) but I doubt if I'd be a hardass about it. (I like the idea of a higher minimum word count, but I think people are right: no sense in scaring folks off by setting the bar too high. 2000 words should be do-able for most writers, and gives enough space to tell a decent story while still having the possibility of going longer, if desired.)
ETA: Okay, still thinking. How about these genres?
-Monday: Angst
-Tuesday: Humor
-Wednesday: Team
-Thursday: Friendship
-Friday: Action/adventure
-Saturday: AU
-Sunday: Anything goes!
Thoughts? Is this too complicated? Too ambitious? Not ambitious enough? Help!
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