For everyone who is having trouble with his or her story...

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

...you've got amnesty.

I've been hearing from a fair number of people today who were panicking over the deadline and their uncooperative stories.

Now, I know what it's like when you're fighting with a story that just won't work or is fussing about how to start or is insisting on being longer than you expected (I had that happen back in January when my smallfandomfest story turned into something long enough to qualify for NaNoWriMo.)

So. Anyone who needs more time? You've got until August 15th. 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, to be precise.

And if you go past that...hey, you know I'm not going to kill you.

And now--poll!

[Poll #1599470]

(By the way, I'd like the stories from the general claimage prompts to be posted here. I only ask that, in the spirit of the ficathon, such stories be about women.

Also, yes, comedies are permitted.)

The date after which you can archive somewhere other than here OR the link at A3O is still August 7th. Incidentally, I'd still like to have more people posting their stories at A3O--it's a good place to post and to get the attention of other readers.

Comments

[ariestess]

Thank you thank you thank you! I was JUST going to email/PM you about my recalcitrant muse re: my story. Then I saw this post. You are a goddess-send!

[immortal-jedi.livejournal.com]

I have a question. For those of us who have already posted our stories, can we post them elsewhere now? I've been under the assumption that we have to wait until the deadline.

[aphrodite-mine.livejournal.com]

Whoops, I already cross-posted mine. Fail.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Eh, it's not a big deal. I'm just trying to direct all attention toward the comm and the A3O community first, so that the maximum number of stories can be seen and read.

[magglenagall.livejournal.com]

Actually, it says in the rules to wait until after August 7.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The date after which you can archive somewhere other than here OR the link at A3O (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/femgenficathon_2010) is still August 7th. (I made it August 7th to allow for a lot of last-minute postings that would have to be added to the Master List and possible stress-related illness.)

I'd still like to have more people posting their stories at A3O--it's a good place to post and to get the attention of new readers who aren't familiar with the ficathon.

[immortal-jedi.livejournal.com]

*shrug* Ok. If you change the date, could you let us know?

Also, I'm already on the A3O.

[mercuries.livejournal.com]

Thank you so, so much! I was getting ready for an all-nighter, whew.

[domlandbubbles.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[spikewriter]

Bless you. Seriously. We've been having family meltdowns and this definitely gives me some breathing room.

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Having the 7/31 deadline actually got me off my arse- I'd written only 350 words as of the morning of 7/24 so I really had to crank during this past week and was glad I'm not closely supervised at work *cough*. Now that I'm in writing mode I might want to try to tackle another prompt. Maybe :D Thanks again for running this thing. It's awesome.

[nocowardsoul]

Oh goodness, that is awesome. Thank you!

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

If the prompts are open for general claimage, would that include posting the finished products here?

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would. Sorry, I should add that to the post.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank goodness for that. My story's been taunting me half-written for weeks while I've been too busy with work to finish it, I could see me having an unpleasantly intense day of writing today trying to finish it. *relief*

Very, very late.

[glinda-penguin.livejournal.com]

Apparently yesterday was my day to actually finally finish this story after being blocked on it for months. But its finally done! It was an awesome prompt, sorry it took me so long to write it.

Title: Can’t Take The Sky
Author: Glinda/[Bad username or site: ”glinda_penguin” @ livejournal.com]
Rating: T
Fandom: Firefly
Warnings: Canonical Character Death
Prompt: I have begun to feel/ That it is dreams, not reality,/On which I can rely. -- Ono no Komachi(c. 825 — c. 900), 9th-century Japanese poet.
Summary: Serenity does not understand grief; Serenity understands grief all too well.

Can't Take The Sky (http://archiveofourown.org/works/146360)

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, this is wonderful to see - I was just about to PM you asking for an extension. Thank you!

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah, wish I'd known this before posting -- didn't you say earlier that it was going to be very strict this time and nothing beyond the deadline got included? I posted something that I wished could have been better, hoping to edit later, so I like this new development -- I've deleted the old post (fortunately possible since it didn't lose any comments) and will repost later after hopefully having found the time to improve the fic. (If not, it'll pass muster even if it didn't really come out the way I wanted it to.)

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

didn't you say earlier that it was going to be very strict this time and nothing beyond the deadline got included?

Yeah, I did. I wasn't expecting to get twenty PMs and e-mails from people saying, "My story's not cooperating/there are family emergencies/everything's crazy...and I'll have to drop out." Seriously, twenty people in the same week were all saying the same thing.

I don't like having to bump the deadline back; I really do think that three months is plenty of time. But I also had to focus on the fact that almost as many people as those who had posted were saying that they weren't ready to post. And I had to figure that there were others who hadn't said anything who were also desperate. And far too many people were seeing "dropping out" as the only option--even though there's no penalty for posting late, and never has been.

So, reluctantly, I had to declare amnesty. It seemed the only way of dealing with the situation.

[roh-wyn.livejournal.com]

Ack! I meant to mark "yes" for the first poll question, but my fat thumb+tiny phone keypad=disaster. Sorry about that.

I think the date for posting or archiving elsewhere was originally Aug. 7. I assume that's getting pushed back as well?

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

The date after which you can archive somewhere other than here OR the link at A3O (http://archiveofourown.org/collections/femgenficathon_2010) is still August 7th. Incidentally, I'd still like to have more people posting their stories at A3O--it's a good place to post and to get the attention of other readers.

[cyloran.livejournal.com]

Thank you! My free time lately has been virtually nil, and the muses are not cooperating. I'm hoping to whip a few plot bunnies into shape (including my femgenficathon fuzzy) soonish but the extension is much appreciated.

[sparkfrost.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU! I've been working on my story but I have writers block from hell. It is especially frustrating because I love my idea, its just taking forever to come out onto the page. Thank you!

[domlandbubbles.livejournal.com]

Augh! I'm going to be losing my internet for at least two weeks! So I will most likely not be able to get my story in by the 15th.

I'm so sorry, I will try to get it in as soon as I can after my internet is back!