Misc announcements

[bridgetmkennitt]

I started my grad program yesterday, so please give me some time to answer emails and comments. I gave a quick lookthrough of fics and didn't find obvious placeholders. Yay! There were a few formatting/no space issues in a few fics I found, and plenty who were tagless (tags aren't mandatory, but highly recommended), but there's still time for that.

If you have a draft in the collection, please post it. Drafts can't be read by anyone but you and they do not count as fulfilling your assignment.

Treats over 1k can be placed in the Not Prime Time 2016 collection while treats under 1k and non-fic works can be placed in the Prime Time Madness 2016 collection.

If you are having some difficulty in coming up with tags for your story, here are some questions that might be helpful.

What kind of story is it? (Fluffy, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Character Study, etc)
Is it an AU? (There are several different type of Alternate Universe canonical tags)
Did you write about a threesome? (Specific types of threesome are canonical tags as well as just the regular Threesome tag)
Did you write porn? (There are plenty of canonical tags for various sexual acts)
What kind of relationship do your characters have with each other? (Friendship, Rivals, Siblings, Developing Relationship, etc)
What do your characters do? (There are plenty of canonical tags for events/situations)

If none of these sound like they could fit your story, there is always the option of refreshing the Random Tags page to see what pops up.

Useful Links
Not Prime Time 2016 (with schedule) | Prime Time Madness 2016
Frequently Asked Questions | AO3 exchange faq for participants | Pinch Hitting faq
2016 tag set
Dear Prime Time Player on LJ | on DW
Requests in a txt file | Requests on AO3
How to upload (and default) (2015 examples)

Comments

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[bridgetmkennitt]

I'm of the opinion that knowledge is good, and people can take it or leave it since this isn't mandatory. It's up to the person, just as long as they know. I mention these things, along with forward dating like I will in a couple of days, because I want people to have as many eyeballs on their fics as possible and both tags and forward dating are highly recommended from me because it gives people a higher chance of getting said eyeballs from people who aren't following this exchange, especially since these are medium sized fandoms that may have grown rapidly to mega sized and by the time the collection opens, their fic is pages back on the fandom page. Does anyone have to do these things? No, of course not. But I will mention them, recommend them, and leave it up to the writer whether or not to do anything.

Some people want to tag to entice more people, but don't know how. That's fine and the suggestions above are for them. Some people want to tag, and know how to tag their fic/already tagged their fic. That's fine and they can disregard the suggestions above. Some people don't care about tagging their fic and that's fine too because they can disregard the suggestions above. Whoever found the post useful, used it. Those who didn't, didn't.

I understand that's how you feel, and that's perfectly fine, but as this is my exchange, I will continue bringing up things that might interest people, not because everyone should do it, but because it might help some people and I rather do that (and have other people ignore the thing because it doesn't refer to them), instead of not mentioning it at all.