Sign-ups for round four

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Sign-ups are open until Friday, July 27th.

Sign-ups are now closed.

The deadline for your completed fic/art is Sunday, September 16th.

- sign-ups close on Friday, July 27th
- assignments will be sent out on Sunday, July 29th
- obligatory check-in post on September 1st
- the deadline for your completed fic/art is Sunday, September 16th
- posting starts on Monday, September 17th

Please join AND watch the community so you don't miss updates, reminders, the check-in post etc.!

Please READ the rules in the FAQ post before signing up.




Two important rule changes:
1) In the previous rounds I've had huge problems with people disappearing after they asked me for a week's extension. In order to avoid that, first-time participants asking for an extension will have to show me what they've written so far so I can be sure they're actually working on it, not stringing me along only to disappear in the end (and I will expect you to have written more than one paragraph on the day of the deadline). I'm sorry I have to do this, I really wish it wasn't necessary, but I'm afraid it is. You can thank the people who disappeared over a week after the deadline in previous rounds.
2) If you're okay with receiving both fic and art, please make sure to write prompts that also work for art. It's very difficult for artists if they receive fic prompts and only an added "I like art, too." Either phrase your prompts in a way that they can be used for both fic and art, or (new rule) you can write separate prompts. So if you're okay with both, you are allowed (and even supposed) to write 3-5 fic prompts AND 3-5 art prompts.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about that.



Sign-up form:

Active Email Address:

Have you read (all) the books? Have you seen the show?


What kind of gift can you make?

Fic and/or fanart?

Preferred characters and/or pairings:

Characters and/or pairings you will NOT draw/write about:

What kind of genres can you write/what kind of pictures can you draw?

Anything else I should know when I assign prompts to you?



What kind of gift do you want to receive?

Fic and/or fanart?

Preferred characters and/or pairings:

Characters and/or pairings you do NOT want to see/read about:

What genre of fic/art do you generally want? (Gen, slash, het, angst, fluff, romance, smut etc.)

Give at least three and up to five prompts you would like to see written/drawn:

Your pet peeves and other things you DO NOT WANT in your story/art:



Are you willing to pinch hit? (This is just a general question; if you say yes, it only means that I may ask you to help if I need to. You can still say no then if you don't have the time or don't like the prompts.)

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If you have any particular book vs. show preferences, especially when it comes to characters who are very different on the show, please mention it.

If your sign-up form includes spoilers (prompts like "what happened after character X did this or that in ADWD?"), please warn for it so the other participants don't get spoiled accidentally while reading through the sign-ups.

Please try to have a little bit of variety in your prompts. It's perfectly okay to want fic about a certain character or group of characters, but if all your prompts are smut for the exact same pairing or if they're all crazy AUs or crackships or something like that, it may get really hard for your writer. Try not to constrict your gifter too much, please.  (E.g. it's perfectly fine if you absolutely want fic about Catelyn, but try not to have five Ned/Catelyn smut prompts. Have some Ned/Catelyn prompts, and maybe a Catelyn gen prompt, or a prompt about Catelyn interacting with someone else etc.) Don't worry, most of you already don't do that anyway; only two people last time had exclusively prompts for one pairing and the writers weren't too happy about that.

You can ask for other things than fanart or fanfic (like graphics, icons, videos, whatever), but I can't promise that someone will participate who can make them, so you should be okay with drawn art or fic. Similarily, if you can make graphics etc., you can tell me as well, but you should be able to produce either drawn art or fic because I can't be sure that someone will specifically ask for graphics etc.

If you don't want to post your e-mail address here, just fill out the rest of the form and send me a PM with your address.

Send your finished fic/art to gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com by September 16th. If you need an extension or if you have to drop out, please contact me as soon as possible. Don't just disappear.

Please only send me fics as text files (.txt), or if that's not possible as .doc, .docx or .odt. Please include html tags for italics etc. in your file and check if your formatting works properly. Also, please use a beta reader, or at least proofread your fic thoroughly. I have neither the time nor the patience to proofread every single fic before posting it. If you don't know anyone who could beta for you, please contact one of the people who signed up on this beta reader post. Don't be shy. They signed up because they want to help. :)

Any other questions, comments, suggestions, problems? You can ask in the comments or PM me. :) Please read the FAQ first, though, maybe your question has already been answered there.



Unrelated: the comment fic meme was a bit slow this time around, but new prompts and fills are still welcome. :)