comment fic fest/memes/fic-a-thons
So, a while ago now, I hosted the Same Name Comment Fic Meme. The concept was this: prompt two characters from any two canons that have at least one name in common. I still find my banner hilarious; it included Wesley Crusher/Wesley Wyndham-Price; Scorpius Malfoy/Scorpius from Farscape; Dean Winchester/Dean from Gilmore Girls; Buffy Summers/Cyclops from X-Men, and the tag line was about Wolverine/Logan Echolls from Veronica Mars.
The meme was sorta kinda a success--it got a lot of prompts. And a total of two fills. I think it was way more fun to come up with prompts than to actually fill them.
I have ideas for two other fic-a-thons and/or memes that also seem like they would be more fun to prompt for than write for: a same actor meme and a doubles meme, for canons with two versions of the same character. (Well, I have other, less similar ideas. Same family meme! Genderswap meme! Missing mother meme!)
Anyways, the point is, in some comment fic memes, I just leave a prompt because I'd love to see some the fic that may result. But in others, I leave prompts because it's fun to think of prompts on a certain theme. The problem with this is that it can be kind of annoying to the people who want prompts to be filled and fills to be read and commented upon, which is completely understandable.
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rthstewart hosted the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon (which is apparently a yearly thing? idk), which is awesome and lovely. The great thing about this meme was that you could leave prompts for esoteric things, tiny fandoms, rare pairs, and still get fills. I'm probably never going to sit down and write a fic about James Bond, but I'll definitely write three sentences! So I felt very free to have fun with coming up with prompts, without feeling like I was being annoying by having just as fun prompting as I was reading fills and leaving fills. It was easy to do all three, without taking a huge chunk of time.
So anyway, now I'm think about the feasibility of hosting some of these memes/fic-a-thons, but adding suggested length-limits for fills: 100 words, three sentences, or similar. Like the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon, people could post longer fills, but the idea is you're not really obligated to write a "complete" story. It might be fun to have a comm that's just dedicated to flash fic comment fests on certain themes--like every month or two there's a new fic-a-thon on a different theme, maybe with different suggestions for types of fills (haiku! Limmericks! Drabbles! Three sentences! etc) I don't know whether anyone would be interested in this . . .
The meme was sorta kinda a success--it got a lot of prompts. And a total of two fills. I think it was way more fun to come up with prompts than to actually fill them.
I have ideas for two other fic-a-thons and/or memes that also seem like they would be more fun to prompt for than write for: a same actor meme and a doubles meme, for canons with two versions of the same character. (Well, I have other, less similar ideas. Same family meme! Genderswap meme! Missing mother meme!)
Anyways, the point is, in some comment fic memes, I just leave a prompt because I'd love to see some the fic that may result. But in others, I leave prompts because it's fun to think of prompts on a certain theme. The problem with this is that it can be kind of annoying to the people who want prompts to be filled and fills to be read and commented upon, which is completely understandable.
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rthstewart hosted the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon (which is apparently a yearly thing? idk), which is awesome and lovely. The great thing about this meme was that you could leave prompts for esoteric things, tiny fandoms, rare pairs, and still get fills. I'm probably never going to sit down and write a fic about James Bond, but I'll definitely write three sentences! So I felt very free to have fun with coming up with prompts, without feeling like I was being annoying by having just as fun prompting as I was reading fills and leaving fills. It was easy to do all three, without taking a huge chunk of time.So anyway, now I'm think about the feasibility of hosting some of these memes/fic-a-thons, but adding suggested length-limits for fills: 100 words, three sentences, or similar. Like the Three Sentence Fic-A-Thon, people could post longer fills, but the idea is you're not really obligated to write a "complete" story. It might be fun to have a comm that's just dedicated to flash fic comment fests on certain themes--like every month or two there's a new fic-a-thon on a different theme, maybe with different suggestions for types of fills (haiku! Limmericks! Drabbles! Three sentences! etc) I don't know whether anyone would be interested in this . . .
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