On the verge of the finish-a-thon

[kerravonsen]

Hello peoples!
This year, I thought I'd do things a bit differently, to try to make signing up easier for both you and for me. So I have set up a sub-site for the finish-a-thon, with a pretty sign-up form, and all the rules and stuff.

http://www.katspace.org/Fiction/Ficathons/FinishAThon/2009/

I plead with y'all; since I want to start the sign-ups tomorrow (and darn, I have stayed up far far far too late working on this) -- make that, I would like to start the sign-ups about eight hours from now. I would really appreciate people checking it out; if you could look at it and play around, I intend to delete all sign-ups that are added before I officially open the ficathon, so you can mess around and tell me what's wrong.

1. Does the sign-up form work for you?
2. Are the instructions clear enough?
3. I've changed the rules a bit; any comments/problems with that?

Give me feedback to this post here, and I will be happy. Thank y'all.

Finish-a-thon 2009 Sign Ups!

[kerravonsen]

Sign-ups are now CLOSED
Announcing... finish-a-thon 2009! Yes, we're doing it again.

Remember all those poor, neglected plot bunnies that have been starving from lack of attention, because all those ficathons kept on having higher priority? The stories you wish you could finish, if only you could find the time? Well, fear not, the finish-a-thon is coming to the rescue!

The finish-a-thon is a ficathon, with all the ficathon-like things like deadlines and fellow volunteers to encourage you, but with this ficathon, you write your own ideas. But since part of the encouragement of a ficathon is writing things for other people, what we're going to do, is vote for which story ideas people should write.

This year we're doing it a little differently; I have set up a website to facilitate the ficathon, including a handy-dandy sign-up form which should make entering all the information easier.
Thank you to all the people who helped me test it; the test data is all deleted now, so if you "signed up" in the test, then you now need to sign up for real (if you're signing up, that is).

• Rules and FAQ
• Sign-up form

Dates
Sign-ups end:
Australia - Saturday 21st March 2009, 8am
Rest of World (GMT) - 20th March 2009, 10pm

Stories due:
Australia - 27th May 2009, 10am
Rest of World (GMT) - 26th May 2009, midnight

(more detailed date information is in the Rules and FAQ page)

Edited to add: Note that you can edit your sign-up information as much as you want until the sign-up deadline, at which point editing will be disabled.