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.

[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?

[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*

[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.)

[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?

[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!