Deadline Approaching

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Okay, people. Just to remind those of you who DON'T have amnesty to post whenever it's possible (and there are several such people, thanks to chronic illness and missing computers, because 2009 has been a truly horrible year):

The deadline for femgenficathon is October 15, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.

You have a week to go.

There will be no more extensions.

While I won't bar anyone from future participation if the story is posted late or the person defaults, I would strongly prefer that the stories be posted by the deadline.

Also, next year, the ficathon will be much shorter. I listened to you guys this year about keeping the deadline in October, and that has been a failure. Evidently handing out prompts in April and having a deadline in October does not work; it gives people too long to forget about Femgen and to become distracted by other obligations, both connected with ficathons and with real life.

So next year, Femgen prompts will be handed out starting on May 15 and ending on May 22. There will be seventy-five prompts--no more, no less. The most stories we've ever had people post in one year is seventy-four, and all other years have produced appreciably fewer stories, so seventy-five prompts should be more than sufficient. The deadline will be July 31, as it was during Femgen's first year. I think that's time enough.


Crossposted to gehayi

Comments

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Phew, I made the deadline!

Just wanted to say thanks again for organising and to agree that a shorter timeframe might be a good idea next year. I'm certainly glad you're planning to do it again, I think it generates some excellent fic.