Finish-a-thon

[kerravonsen]

Announcing... the finish-a-thon!
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.

The way it works is this:

1. Sign up here, with a comment.
   In your sign-up comment, list a short description all the plot bunnies, unfinished stories (apart from other ficathon stories) and vague ideas that you are putting up for voting on. Say what universe(s) it's in, a very brief description, and some idea of what rating and type (gen,het,slash) you think it will be, to give people a good idea of what they'd be voting for.
2. A poll is made, each "question" consists of the potential stories of one participant.
3. We vote for which story we want each person to finish. The winning story in each section is the one which that author has to work on.
4. Each writer works on their winning story, and finishes it by the deadline. They then put it up on the web somewhere, either in their journal, or on a website.
5. I will post a master-list of all the stories, so that people can find them.
6. Everyone rejoices!

Dates:

Sign-ups begin: today!
Sign-ups end: 25th November 2005
Poll is put up: 27th November 2005
Voting ends: 2nd December 2005
Stories finished: 28th January 2006

(that's 8 weeks to write in)

Note that these dates are Australian time, so basically take away a day for those in the US and UK.

Sign-up Template:

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Name:
Livejournal:
(new!) Voting Preference: participants only OR all interested parties

For each plot-bunny...

Fandom(s):
Description:
Type: het/gen/slash
Rating:

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Questions:

What do you mean, not other ficathon stories?

Unfinished stories from other ficathons already have a ficathon for them. This is the Home For Lost Plot-Bunnies (and unfinished stories) that don't have a ficathon of their own.

What if I want to use this story for fanfic100?

(or crossovers100 etc)

Well, this is supposed to be for stories not associated with other ficathonish things... but if it so happens that after you've written it, you find that it fits into your Big Table, well, those challenges aren't averse to using stories from other sources, are they?

Are there any restrictions? This isn't an anti-slash thing, is it?

No restrictions. They're your own ideas, hence, your responsibility. Just let people know, in the descriptions, what kind of story you think it will be, so that they can vote wisely.

What about sequels? Can I include bunnies for those?

Sure. Just give a link to where we can find the previous story or stories.

Is there a minumum number of bunnies required?

Yes. Three. We need something to vote on, after all.

Is there a maximum number of bunnies allowed?

Yes. Ten. Otherwise we'll never be able to decide. Just pick the bunnies you most want to write.

What if I don't finish my story?

Then post what you've managed to write so far, indicating that it isn't finished. Warts and all. No hiding. If you didn't finish... well, we don't want this to drag on, do we?
On the other hand, if it's only a day or two late, then do finish it first. Especially if all it needs is a beta, get it beta-read first.

What if I don't know what story to vote for?

Try. It is possible to not answer a poll question. But please do try to pick one story from everybody if you possibly can.

What about my own stories? Do I pick one of mine as well?

Nup. The point is to find out what other folks here wish you to write.

What if there's a tie in the votes? Which story would I write?

Toss a coin. If you can't toss a coin, I'll toss one for you -- just ask.

Is there a minimum length requirement?

Well, it seems a bit pointless to waste an 8-week ficathon on a drabble. But I don't want you to be sweating over length requirements. Stories have natural lengths; try to pick story ideas which would naturally fit into more than a drabble.

Is there a maximum length requirement?

No, but do remember you've only got 8 weeks.

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Edited To Add: IMPORTANT QUESTION!

Question: Who gets to vote on what I write?

Answer: when you sign up, say what you would prefer:
(a) other participants only
(b) all and sundry (that is, get your friends to vote so you get a better idea of what your peers want)
I will put a note as part of your poll entry as to what your preference is. If no preference is given, I will go with the default of "participants only" since that was how it was originally set up. I won't be able to enforce this, but we can hope that people will be considerate.

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Please pimp this everywhere. 8-)

Please note, the dates of this have been devised carefully to make sure that the writing period does not conflict with NaNoWriMo.

Comments

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

Cool idea! Is RPS okay?

[kerravonsen]

Someone else has already signed up with some.

[alicamel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I must have missed that. Thank you!

Re: Maybe it shouldn't be just participants...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Thanks; seems like an effective compromise.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

*falls down on knees*

Saints be praised! I've been reading Only Human since I was in High School... and I can vote on getting 1500 more words of it? FRELL YES!!

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Voting Procedure: Anybody and Everybody, dude. Oh, and I *AM* the same person as lady_smith, in case there's folks who didn't know.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Yup, it's up on my website (http://uk.geocities.com/yangtzu62/index.html). There's already four parts up there.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Sorry, yes, it is. It's all quite low-key, though, promise *g*.

[toft-froggy.livejournal.com]

Interested by the West Wing 'People You Should Never Have Slept With' one.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Name: Alixtii O'Krul V
Livejournal: alixtii

(1)
Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The West Wing
Description: President Bartlett has to deal with a demonic army coming down on Los Angeles immediately after "Not Fade Away." Also the assassination of a hated but Democratic senator.
Type: Gen
Rating: PG

(2)
Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Description: Amy visits Rack for her magic fix in late S6 and comes face to face with Drusilla.
Type: Het, Femslash, 3some
Rating: NC-17

(3)
Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Description: Dawn visits Wolfram & Hart between "Smile Time" and "A Hole in the World" and goes with Wesley and Fred to find the source of the robots in "Lineage."
Type: Gen, het, possibly femslash
Rating: PG-13

(4)
Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Description: Following my Watcher's Burden (http://www.livejournal.com/users/alixtii/4568.html), Dawn turns to Ethan Rayne for absolution.
Type: Het
Rating: NC-17

(5)
Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Description: After Divine Interventions (http://www.livejournal.com/users/alixtii/15480.html), Dawn travels to Africa to convince Xander to travel to Brazil to reconcile Willow and Kennedy.
Type: Het
Rating: R

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I think the idea of an Og's Eye View story is amazing, and I'm going to vote for that because I know you can invest it with...ummm, I guess *humanity* is the wrong word. But then you're the person who pointed out Northern-hemisphere chauvinism, so why not speciesism?

Re: OK, here we go...

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Oh, and put me down for "anybody can vote," I guess, 'cause I don't really mind. Not that it makes a lot of difference in my case, really, as that list isn't exactly full of obscure fandoms.

[blakefancier.livejournal.com]

Name: Zenia
Livejournal: blakefancier
Voting Preference: All interested parties

(1)
Fandom(s): Man From UNCLE
Description: Napoleon is injured while in the line of duty. Illya has to help him through his physical and emotional pain.
Type: Slash
Rating: PG13-R

(2)
Fandom(s): Simon and Simon
Description: Sequel to 'Through the Darkness.' Will Rick and AJ ever manage to heal their relationship? Will they manage to heal themselves?
Type: Slash (incest)
Rating: NC17

(3)
Fandom(s): Blakes 7
Description: That Blake history I keep talking about finishing.
Type: Slash (Blake/OMC)
Rating: Probably a hard R (more for violence than sex)

(4)
Fandom(s): Blakes 7
Description: Mpreg meets Alien. During the Andromedan war, Avon is taken prisoner. He and a few others are experimented on by alien scientists and eventually, he gets implanted with a human/Andromedan hybrid. This is what happens when he manages to escape.
Type: Gen (Horror)
Rating: R

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

Name: Fikgirl/Chelesedai
Livejournal: fikgirl
Voting Preference: all interested parties

(1)
Fandom(s): Stargate SG-1/Tomorrow People (New Series) Crossover
Description: Completion of Transient Reality (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=fikgirl&keyword=Transient+Reality&filter=all), in which mini!Jack (Jack O' Neill's clone from S7 episode, "Fragile Balance") discovers that life outside of the SGC can be just as dangerous and complicated as life inside of the SGC.
Type: gen
Rating: PG-15 to R (for profanity and violence)

(2)
Fandom(s): Tomorrow People Whitewolf/Witchcraft fusion (Strange Fires Serial (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=fikgirl&keyword=Strange+Fires&filter=all))
Description: Completion of "Long Days Journey Into Night" (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=fikgirl&keyword=Long+Day%27s+Journey+Into+Night&filter=all) where Ami deals with learning that Adam is a vampire and delves deeper into a haunting
Type: gen/(mild het, there is a pairing, but it's not central to the story)
Rating: PG-15 to R (for profanity and adult situations)

(3)
Fandom(s): Stargate SG-1/Tomorrow People (New Series) crossover
Description: An AU to Stargate SG-1 episode "Rites of Passage" in which Cassandra is actually a Tomorrow Person breaking out; when she disappears all hell breaks loose
Type: gen
Rating: PG-15 to R (for profanity)

Re: Signing Up

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

I think I know which one of these I'll vote for. *giggles*

[fikgirl.livejournal.com]

Wow. Looks like you have a few good ones there ... I really like three of 'em a lot, so it's going to be a tough call . . .

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, that comes up. And another sort of chauvinism.

[kyrafic.livejournal.com]

! Mutual admiration society time.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Heee, you're like a fandom pimp!

(Uh, yes, this is my other journal, woo.)

[typicrobots.livejournal.com]

I would love to finish that one, but it's also one of my most problematic ones. I have trouble with capturing characters' voices, and West Wing characters have such distinct voices. But I should really give it another go.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Really? I was sure that my random fandoms were going to make people either just pick whatever fandom they actually *know* or be like, "weird gen writer...." LOL.

But I like the weird ones best.

[(Anonymous)]

Well a) I'm a crossover junkie and b) I like and am familiar with 90% of the fandoms you've listed, I just don't write or read a lot of fic in them, and c) I'm a crossover junkie.

So that should give you some hint of which way my voting will lean ;->

[ladyjanelly.livejournal.com]

Wonderful idea. I'm in.

Name: Ladyjanelly
Livejournal: ladyjanelly
Voting Preference: participants only

A few of these are things that I started that have been neglected (not quite abandoned) for over 4 months. Links included for the WIPs.

Title: Golden Vanity
Fandom: LotR
Description:Glorfindel, reborn, finds himself changed, and unwilling to risk another fall for the sake of his vanity.
Type: slash
Rating: PG-13
18000 words done, 6000 or so to go...
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ladyjanelly&keyword=Golden+Vanity&filter=all


Title: In the Grey
Fandom: Forgotten realms
Description:An AU that begins when Drizzt is captured and tortured in the Baenre complex during Starless Night. How far will Dantrag Baenre go to make sure Drizzt lives to fight him, and how far will another go to save him?
Type: slash
Rating: NC-17
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2020391/1/
Words done: 13,000. Words to go: 1200

Title: Look After Your Brother
Fandom: Boondock Saints
Description:
Type: slash
Rating: R for sex and violence (twincest)
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ladyjanelly&keyword=Look+after+your+brother&filter=all
Words done: 25,000 Words to go: 2500


Fandom: Rescue Me/Boondock Saints crossover
Description: Tommy Gavin is haunted by a new ghost, one that has a mission for him. Death-fic, ghost-fic,
Type: gen
Rating: R (for language, death, violence)


title: Project Kal
Fandom: Smallville
Description: AU When Lex found the little boy lost and hurting in the cornfield, all he wanted was to be his mother's son, to help someone, to be good. And his father took that all away. 16 years later a failed project is passed off to him to try to salvage.
Type: Slash?
Rating: R

title: With the Kent Family Traveling Show
Fandom: Smallville
Description: AU Great-depression Smallville. Lex loses everything before he finds the place where he belongs.
Type: Slash
Rating: R

[andraste]

Name: Andraste
Livejournal: andrastewhite
Voting Preference: participants only

1. Coalescence

Fandom(s): X-Men Movieverse
Description: How Xavier's mind found its way back to his body when it was lost during the first film.
Type: Mainly gen, references to both het and slash relationships.
Rating: Probably no higher than PG-13.

2. Visitations

Fandom(s): X-Men Movieverse
Description: After X2, the mansion appears to be haunted by a ghost that has a particular interest in Charles Xavier.
Type: Mainly gen, references to both het and slash relaitonships.
Rating: Probably R by the time the ghost story part is worked out.

3. Our Little Secret

Fandom(s): X-Men Comicverse
Description: While rearranging things in the mansion's attic, the original five X-Men stumble across Charles Xavier's photo album.
Type: Gen
Rating: PG

4. Sinister

Fandom(s): Babylon 5
Description: Set between Objects At Rest and the flash-forward of War Without End. G'Kar is summoned to Centauri Prime by Vir, who is worried about Londo.
Type: Slash
Rating: Hopefully N-17 *g*.

5. Going Native

Fandom(s): Babylon 5
Description: After the events of Sic Transit Vir, Vir deals with the reactions of the people around him to the discovery of his underground railroad and his failed engagement.
Type: Gen/ampersand.
Rating: PG

6. Half A Dozen of the Other

Fandom(s): Babylon 5
Description: Six things that have happened to every pairing except Londo and G'Kar - slash cliche fic with a tentacle pr0n twist. The first three installments are here, here and here.
Type: Slash
Rating: NC-17

7. A Waste of Angels

Fandom(s): Alias
Description: Post-Season Four AU. Jack gets into trouble looking for a Rambaldi formula that might save Sydney and Nadia. Sloane needs Irina Derevko's help to rescue him.
Type: Het and slash threesome spy pr0n! Only with a plot.
Rating: NC-17

8. As Yet Untitled Sloane/Emily

Fandom(s): Alias
Description: After the events of The Box, Arvin Sloane has to try to explain to his sick wife just how one of his fingers got cut off while he was meant to be working at a bank ...
Type: Het
Rating: PG-13, probably.

9. Quick Study

Fandom(s): Crusade/Farscape
Description: Max Eilerson meets a myterious redheaded genius who's even better with alien languages as he is ...
Type: Het
Rating: Not sure - could go as high as NC-17.

10. Casting Light

Fandom(s): Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Sandman
Description: During Season Seven, Rupert Giles pays a visit to the Dreaming.
Type: Gen.
Rating: PG, probably.

[bloodygoodgirl.livejournal.com]

Name: Faye
Livejournal: bloodygoodgirl
Voting Prefernce All interested parties.

1. Love's Bitch
Fandoms: Veronica Mars and X-Men (Comicverse)
Description Remy LeBeau (Gambit) comes to Neptune after the first season and befriends Logan. Two maladjusted teenagers with intimacy issues. But they're both really hot.
Type Slash (Remy/Logan)
Rating NC-17

2. Untitled
Fandoms: Stargate Atlantis/Firefly
Description Set in Season 2 for SGA and before Sereinity for Firefly. An alternative take on the Reavers throws the two teams together.
Type Slash (Sheppard/Ronon/McKay) (Simon/Jayne/Mal)
Rating R

3. Shiny
Fandoms: Smallville with heavy mentions of Firefly
Description Everyone knows the power of inside jokes. Especially in budding romantic relationships.
Type Slash (Clark/Lex)
Rating R or NC-17

4. Blind
Fandoms: Supernatural
Description When Dean is temporarily blinded by a demon he has to lean on Sam for support. Hotness occurs.
Type Slash (Dean/Sam)
Rating NC-17

5. Untitled
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Description Set in Season 2, Drusilla has a vision of all the pain in store for her Spike and tries to make it better.
Type Slash (Spike/Xander)
Rating NC-17

6. Shouldn't be here
Fandoms: X-Men 1st movie
Description Scott's captivated by the mansion's newest resident, Remy LeBeau.
Type Slash (Remy/Scott)
Rating NC-17

7. Take care
Fandoms: Veronica Mars
Description How exactly does Dick take care of his brother?
Type Slash
Rating NC-17 (Beav/Dick)

Wahoo. I'm so excited.