Some of those challenges produced tremendous stories, for sure!
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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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.