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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.

Pencil in your diaries the months of April and May, which is when I'm planning to run the finish-a-thon (with polling in March). I know this overlaps with tardis_bigbang and spn_j2_bigbang and dw_cross but it was totally impossible to find a time of year when it didn't overlap with something.

Here is the Official Master-List post for the 2008 Finish-a-thon. Stories are now due.

Participants, please give the link (and title) of your completed (or partially completed) stories in comments to this post. I will update the master list accordingly.
( Read more... )

Since rubynye just sent me a message saying she couldn't finish her finish-a-thon story, I figure that now is a good time to post the "help I can't finish" messages post.
If you find that you can't finish your finish-a-thon story, then comment in this post, so that I know (and so that all the non-finisher information is in one spot).

Here is the voting for the finish-a-thon 2008! There are 21 participants this year.

Voting is now CLOSED.

Each participant has a list of plot-bunnies to vote for. Following that are two polls for each participant. The first poll is for anyone to vote in; the second poll is an extra vote for participants. You cannot vote in the second poll unless you are a member of multific and a participant.

Participants:
1) Can vote in all polls. You don't have to choose the same thing for your "extra" vote as for your initial vote. You don't even have to fill out your extra vote if you loathe the idea.
2) For the polls about your own bunnies, click on the "I am the author" option.

Everyone else:
1) Vote in only the first poll for each participant.
2) If you accidentally vote in the second poll when you shouldn't have, click on the "I am not a participant" option.

If you make a mistake, click on the link above the poll that says "Poll #NNNNN", then click on the link that says "Fill out poll", and you will then be able to correct your mistake by filling out the poll again.

I CANNOT CORRECT YOUR MISTAKES FOR YOU. The security of the polls do not allow me to alter any of the votes. As it should be!

Voting will finish at midnight GMT, on the 23rd of August; that's a week from now.

( AstroGirl )
( Azar )
( Bewize )
( BlackEyedGirl )
( Caro Dee )
( Delwyn )
( Gray Cardinal )
( Izhilzha )
( Jedi Buttercup )
( Kalquessa )
( Kathryn Andersen )
( Marian )
( NetGirl Y2K )
( Nicola Mody )
( Raedbard )
( Rubynye )
( S )
( The RCK )
( Trinity Day )
( Van )
( Zenia )

Here is the Official Master-List post for the 2007 Finish-a-thon! Stories are due NOW!

Participants, please give the link (and title) of your completed (or partially completed) stories in comments to this post. I will update the master list accordingly.
( Read more... )

Here be the results of the voting for the 2007 Finish-a-thon!
The intrepid participants have vowed to finish these stories by 10pm, 26th October 2007 (GMT). Let the writing begin!
( results )

Here is the voting for the finish-a-thon 2007!
Everyone signing up opted for the "all and sundry" option for voting, so that makes things a little less confusing. There are 35 participants! We-hee!

Voting is closed

How it works:
* Each participant's list of bunnies is given. After the bunny-list, there are two polls; one for participants to vote in, and the second for random people to vote in.
* Yes, this means that participants get TWO votes. It's a perk.
* People vote for which bunny they want the participant to write.
* If you are a participant, you must be a member of this community in order to vote in the "participants-only" sections; LJ won't allow you to vote in them otherwise. You can also vote in the "Anyone" poll.
* If you are a random person, you can only vote in the second poll for each participant (and you can only vote if you are a member of LJ, that's how LJ polls work).

Note: It goes without saying that participants can't vote in their own polls. However, to see how the votes for your bunnies are going, you can submit the poll WITHOUT selecting anything, then you can see the results.

Voting ends:
(Australian Eastern Standard Time) 6am, 31st August 2007
(Greenwich Mean Time) 10pm, 30th August 2007

This has been broken into two posts because it's too large. Part 2 is here
( A. Magiluna Stormwriter )
( Alixtii )
( Annerb )
( Apryl W )
( AstroGirl )
( Carolyn )
( Christi )
( Estirose )
( Eve )
( Feather )
( Gblvr )
( Grace )
( Havoc )
( HonorH )
( Izhilzha )
( Jedi Buttercup )
( Joanne )

Announcing... finish-a-thon 2007! 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 I've decided to give a longer sign-up period.
Sign-ups are definitely closed now.
( details part 1 )

Dates

Australia and New Zealand:

(Australian Eastern Standard Time)
Sign-ups begin: 7th August 2007
Sign-ups end: 6am, 24th August 2007
Poll is put up: 25th/26th August 2007
Voting ends: 6am, 31st August 2007
Stories finished: 6am, 27th October 2007

The Rest of the World (yes, that includes America):

(Greenwitch Mean Time)
Sign-ups begin: 7th August 2007
Sign-ups end: 10pm, 23rd August 2007
Poll is put up: 25th/26th August 2007
Voting ends: 10pm, 30th August 2007
Stories finished: 10pm, 26th October 2007
( details part 2 )

For those of you interested in the gen remix, sign ups are here: http://community.livejournal.com/gen_remix/431.html