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brightknightie) wrote2025-03-08 07:49 am
brightknightie) wrote2025-03-08 07:49 am
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FKFicFest '25 nominations are open for one week
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fkficfest prompt nominations post just before I went to sleep last night. Check it out. Many thanks to celli and senmut for nominating so quickly! We have one week to nominate.
As always, all FK community members -- readers, writers, well-wishers -- are invited to nominate, and nominating is not a promise to play. What scenario, concept, trope, question, scene, or otherwise a single word or set of words might inspire an FK creation that you would like to read or write?
Back in FKFic-L days, some challenge prompts included, if I remember correctly, "What if the asteroid danger in AMPH were real?" (Asteroid Challenge), "How should the series end?" (Forever Not Challenge), "Use all the lyrics of a song inside a story" (Song Challenge), "From a minor character's perspective" (Center Stage Challenge), "What did Nick write inside the MBIAV card?" (Card Challenge), "Vampires dealing with the modern world" (Vampires Anonymous Challenge), and many more.
fkficfest prompt nominations post just before I went to sleep last night. Check it out. Many thanks to celli and senmut for nominating so quickly! We have one week to nominate.As always, all FK community members -- readers, writers, well-wishers -- are invited to nominate, and nominating is not a promise to play. What scenario, concept, trope, question, scene, or otherwise a single word or set of words might inspire an FK creation that you would like to read or write?
Back in FKFic-L days, some challenge prompts included, if I remember correctly, "What if the asteroid danger in AMPH were real?" (Asteroid Challenge), "How should the series end?" (Forever Not Challenge), "Use all the lyrics of a song inside a story" (Song Challenge), "From a minor character's perspective" (Center Stage Challenge), "What did Nick write inside the MBIAV card?" (Card Challenge), "Vampires dealing with the modern world" (Vampires Anonymous Challenge), and many more.
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These challenges sound like a lot of fun to write! :)
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The way we played challenges on the email lists was, the person issuing the challenge wrote her story first, as an example, and then issued the challenge and posted her story. Sometimes, there was no deadline at all; challenges were "standing" and never expired. Other times they had deadlines, such as by a certain holiday, or before the new season began airing.
This frequent lack of deadlines led to one person being confused in the very first FKFicFest, which was on LiveJournal as an exchange-style ficathon, with a specific deadline. That person, being used to the email lists, assumed that there was no deadline, and was shocked when I approached her about her lack of submission as defaulting. She wrote a story in the time between the due date and releasing, and never played again; deadlines weren't for her.
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I can see how that could have been confusing. But the idea of having these challenges without any pressure of a deadline is also quite nice. Takes a bit of pressure of the deadlines. It's a bit sad to see that in the FK fandom there's not much engagement outside of the FicFest, but I think it's absolutely awesome that a 30+ year old fandom still has so many people contributing. :) I don't think that most of the new "trendy" fandoms will have that - although I hope they will, fandom is a very important happy place for so many, especially since the reality these days can be very very frightening.