Disc Fest coming soon

[bethbethbeth]

Last autumn, when sign-ups for yuletide (the rare fandoms holiday fic exchange) were just about to get underway, it looked as if Discworld would no longer be eligible as a rare fandom. "Oh well," I thought. "If it's no longer eligible, I can always participate in some long-established Discworld fic and art Fest. However, I couldn't find any such community, so here, then, is Disc Fest - an anonymous (gen, het, and slash) fest designed to encourage the creation of fiction and art based on characters from Terry Pratchett's wonderful Discworld series.

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Basic Disc Fest Information:

* Mirror communities have been set up on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth (I'd encourage everybody to subscribe to both communities if possible, but all fic and art will be posted to both comms when the time comes)

*Starting Saturday, the 7th of May, posts will be made on both communities , soliciting prompts for this year's Fest. Note: you do not have to be a member of the community, nor do you have to participate to leave prompts.

*All prompts will be collected and organized for a Claiming Post, scheduled for May 25 (i.e., the Glorious 25th of May!)

*Prompts can be claimed from 25 May through 1 June, 2011 - and all prompts will be available to artists and authors alike.

*The deadline to submit all Fic and Art is 20 July, 2011, and the header all participants need to use is here :

Header Template

<b>Contact Info and Background Data</b> <b>Artist/Author:</b> <b>Title:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Character(s)/Pairing(s):</b> <b>Word Count (if applicable):</b> <b>Art Medium (if applicable):</b> <b>Includes spoilers for the following books (or All):</b> <b>Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View):</b> *<span style="color: white; background:white;">[Include any warnings or content info here - or write "None." Alternatively, you can write "I choose not to warn."</span>*. <b>Summary:</b> <b>Artist's /Author's Notes:</b> <lj-cut text="[Your Story or Art Title Goes Here]"><hr width="50%">

Note: I'll be removing artist/author names from the headers for the first week to preserve the illusion of anonymity.

*27 July, 2011: Disc Fest goes live!

*3 August: Authors and Artists names will be revealed.

Comments

[woldy]

Is it necessary to claim a prompt by June 1st in order to participate, or might someone be able to make a later prompt selection and write something for it? *looks hopeful*

I ask because I've love to participate, but I have 2 stories due in June and so I'm reluctant to commit to anything else yet. I fear that if I choose a prompt before finishing those projects then the idea might run away with me and I'll end up writing 20,000 words about the librarian (or something) instead of the help_brazil fic I've promised.

[bethbethbeth]

Here's what I'd suggest: that you do the claim sometime this week (i.e., the normal claiming period after the sign-up post goes up), and then not fret about it too much. Remember, this is a regular fest and not an exchange; if you really get swamped with fandom writing and have to drop out, that's okay (and you can still add the story later, since I'm going to create a "late editions" category for those who don't even notice the fest exists for a few months *g*)

[woldy]

Except that I'd still have to choose a prompt, which I can't do without first planning out the story and thus getting distracted from what I'm writing. Hence the problem :-(.

[bethbethbeth]

Heh. How far into June do you think it would be before you knew?

[woldy]

I have a Daily Deviant fic due on June 12th, so by mid June there should be room on my mental To Do list.

[bethbethbeth]

Send me an email by the 15th of June, then...and if you want to participate, I'll slip you in. :)