Drops and Extensions Post

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

So how is everyone doing on the FemGen stories?

I ask because it's been a horrible year for a lot of people--some people have already dropped out, and I can't find their notifications for the life of me, I'm extremely sorry to say--and I know that not everyone still has time, health, money or inclination to keep writing.

Yet...one hundred and fifty-one people signed up, and to date, seventeen people have written eighteen stories. (One girl wrote two stories.) And I'm worried that people have simply forgotten about the ficathon.

So--to make things easier--tell me how you're doing on your story. Do you need to drop out? Do you need an extension past October 1, 2009?

Tell me here.

Comments

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Mine has been beta-read and just needs me to give it a final polish before posting. I'll try and get to it in the next few days!

[aphrodite-mine.livejournal.com]

I should be able to get mine in by the deadline. Muse has been reticent.

[memories-child.livejournal.com]

I'll have something. I'm not sure how good it will be (!) and it's not the story I'd originally planned, but I'll have something.

[bofoddity.livejournal.com]

I should be able to post by the deadline, but thank you for the reminder.

[jetamors.livejournal.com]

I think I'll be able to have something by October 1st; I'm a bit worried about finding a beta though, since it's for a series without a very big fandom.

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

I'm still writing! I started late, due to getting ill, but am about two-thirds of the way through now. I don't think I'll need an extension, unless things go downhill.

[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

I've been using my writing time to work on original fiction, I'm afraid, and the deadline has creeped up on me. I will switch gears and get my thousand words hammered out and betaed. An extension might be nice, though, if possible.

ETA: And by "extension" I mean only if the deadline is extended for everybody. I will make it work in the time limit.

[joyfulfeather.livejournal.com]

I've started mine, at least? I'm almost always good for deadlines, even when I have a stupidly plotty fic that I should have been working on for the last month or two. Which means that I should be able to make the October 1 date (even if I have to scrap my original idea and write something shorter).

[kaerya.livejournal.com]

Mine stalled out partway through, but I think I've got it moving again. I'm still hoping to get it up by the first, but I may need an extension.

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

If you end up needing more back up writers I'd be willing.

[amathela.livejournal.com]

My original idea is totally plotted and half-written, which is has been for ... a while. I'm hoping to be able to pick it up again and finish before October 1st, otherwise I may end up writing something else. But, yes, I should be good for the deadline, or way or another. (Shamefully, despite having written down the correct date, I had in my mind that the deadline was the end of October, so this post was very timely and useful, thank you!)

[tanaquiljall]

My muses were uncooperative, but have come up with a fairly solid idea this weekend (yay for the influence of looming deadlines!) so I hope to pull something together over the next week or so. But I'm pretty certain I'll be good for having something by the deadline.

[duck-or-rabbit.livejournal.com]

I would like to have my story be part of this challenge, but having it done by the 10.1 is impossible. Any extension potential? Understand if not. Thanks.

[brennanspeaks.livejournal.com]

School is kicking my ass. An extension would be wonderful wonderful wonderful. That being said, I've finally been bunnied, so the work is in progress. I hold to a long-standing tradition of finishing fic at the last possible moment.

[edenfalling]

I am having some unexpected work and family complications, but I do have my story basically outlined and a few hundred words of the rough draft written, and if all else fails I can write something else as a stopgap... so even if I fail to meet the October 1 deadline, I should have something up within a few days after that. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience that may cause.

[jadis31.livejournal.com]

I will need more time. I've been trying to make myself think and care about fandom and fanish things... but I think the last piece of fan fic I read was in April. It's just proving really hard to get myself back into it. But hopefully, I will be able to make it work. I've just lost faith in that happening before October 1st.

I'm sorry.

[woldy]

I have a plot outline but haven't started writing and have other deadlines first. To be honest, the chances of me getting the story done & submitted would rise greatly with an extension.

[tree]

i may just scrape in at the eleventh hour, looking like a mad hedgehog, but i'll post by the deadline.

[a-respite.livejournal.com]

I'd love to blame my tardiness on my fandom's canon still being written, but that would be insincere at best. If I could get one of those October 15th extensions, that would be very helpful.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm going to try again to write this story! So no, not dropping out yet and there's no reason I shouldn't be able to make the Oct 1 deadline. *crosses fingers* We'll see!

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Haven't written a word - still gauging the RSI, having returned to work - but have the story blocked out and will be completing and submitting. Though being a dumbwit I had Oct 15 as the deadline and was working to that!

[opheliet.livejournal.com]

Will have mine done by the 1st! (And it really does seem like it's been a tumultuous few months for a ton of people, doesn't it?)

[magentabear.livejournal.com]

I'm hard at work! Sorry it's taking a while, I can't get the middle bit to flow properly. Fingers crossed, though, it'll be in next week.

Thank you so much for everything you've done for the comm.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

I had a truly ridiculous idea drop into my head right as I was starting the final push on my dissertation and I have yet to figure out if it's brilliant or utterly insane. It is sort of moving along and I am still hoping to have it finished by 1 October, though it may require a little extra time.