fic writing challenges

[sophinisba]

Now that the remix is over, I guess I felt the need to have more stress in my life inspiration to write, because I signed up for two more fic exchanges today. I'd love to see more of my friends sign up for them. Both will have fics posted throughout September.

One is for hobbits, A Movable Feast over at waymeet. Waymeet challenges are usually for members only but this one is open to everybody and I hope a lot of people will sign up and there'll be a good variety of fics and art. Sign-ups close tomorrow (August 6th) for this one so if you've been thinking about it but not sure whether to join in, now is the time.

The other is the Multi-Fandom Character of Color Love Fest at choc_fic. People offered prompts in the comm last month but it's open for anyone to claim them now. (I didn't write a prompt but I claimed one.) Each prompt has a specified day when you need to post the fic, but there is a huge variety in a lot of different fandoms. I'm a little nervous because, well, I'm not actually sure whether I've committed to writing incest for this one (o_0), but I'm excited about it anyway. The deadline for claiming prompts has been extended to August 13th.

I know there are a few other fans of the TV series Homicide: Life on the Street on my f-list. I don't feel like I know the show well enough to try to write in that fandom but I enjoyed azrhiaz's Homicide fic at Yuletide last year and I was happy to see that there are a bunch of Homicide prompts in the fest, quite a few of them claimed already. So, whether or not you want to write, it might be good to friend that comm so you don't miss that great fic about Detective Pembleton or Lt. Giardello that's on the way. Similarly, if you've been wondering where the Hiro/Ando slash or the Wash/Zoe het is, it looks like this could be the place.

This evening I've been reading some great short gen Harry Potter fics in the community dh_predictions. The way this challenge worked is that people made their predictions about what would happen in book seven before it came out, and now those who guessed wrong have to write or draw something for those who guessed right. Isn't that the cutest idea ever? The comm is open to all kinds of fic, art, and even meta, but I've been seeing a lot of lovely character studies and friendship ficlets about characters like Luna and Dean, Lily and Snape.

I especially wanted to mention Waiting for the Call by lacylu42 because I know there are a lot of Neville fans on my list. dreamflower02 was saying the other day that Neville is the Fatty Bolger of the HP-verse and, well, just as I love me some Troubles fic, I'm interested in seeing a lot more of what fans come up with about that last year at Hogwarts, since the book focused so much on Harry, Ron, and Hermione while they were away.

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

oooh, I'm sooo not up to any more challenges right now, but I'd love to read me some good Pembleton fic in Homicide! :-)

[sophinisba]

Unfortunately I didn't see any prompts for fic about Lewis, but there were quite a few about Pembleton and Pembleton is awesome. I think it looks like a great fest.

[danachan.livejournal.com]

I am not finished with my request for the waymeet challenge, but I do want to sign up for that. Also, when I read DH (one day), I v. much would like to write A Lot Of Fic About Neville. *happy sigh omg*

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[sophinisba]

DON'T FORGET YOU MUST SIGN UP TODAY OMG!!!!

Also, I know you are pretty well spoiled already so I think it is okay to tell you, book seven I think was great for Neville fans because it doesn't actually give you a lot of details about what he did during the year, but it makes it very clear that he is awesome, so the world is wide open for fic etc. Yay!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

PEMBLETON! Oh, I loved him when I watched that show.

[sophinisba]

Yeah, Claudia sometimes refers to the Baltimore homicide detectives as Rangers, and Pembleton totally wins at Stern. He is so great when he gets those suspects in the Box.