A Song of Ice and Fire - Fanfic and Fanart Exchange

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the exchange is in two weeks (Sunday, October 16th).

If you will not be able to finish your assignment, please tell me as soon as possible, preferably now. Even a pinch hitter needs more than a few days to write/draw something. If you drop out any later than a week before the deadline, you will not be allowed to participate again if there is ever a second round of this exchange. I know, that's not a big threat. But let's just say that dropping out later than a week before the deadline is just a really dickish, selfish thing to do. Every participant wants to receive a nice gift that someone else put some thought into. If you have to drop out, at least give a pinch hitter enough time to make a nice gift for your giftee, rather than something that was quickly done at the very last minute.

That's why I'd really appreciate it if every participant who hasn't turned in their assignment yet (i.e. most of you) would just leave me a quick comment on this post to tell me that they're still around and working on it. I'd just like to be sure that you haven't forgotten about the exchange and didn't just disappear into nowhere. Thank you. :)

Other than that, go be creative. Remember, the list of beta readers is here. If there are any questions and problems, contact me.

One more thing I forgot to mention before: when you send your fic/art to me, please include a header.
Title:
Author/Artist:
For:
Pairing/Characters:
Rating:
Words:
Warnings (if necessary; please also warn for spoilers)
Prompt:
(Summary, if the prompt was very vague)

Thank you. :)

Edit: rachel2205 just pointed something out to me. I had no idea this could be a problem, but apparently it is: "I just ran a ficathon and a LOT of people are using new Microsoft Word which automatically inserts paragraph breaks. But when it's rendered into plain text those lines aren't there. So we had a bunch of stories where the paragraphs would not have line breaks between them. You might want to tell entrants to remember to hit return twice if they're using new Word even if it looks like there's a para break!!"

I have just sent out the assignments. Please make sure you have received an e-mail from gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com. If you haven't, tell me and I'll see what went wrong. I hope everyone is okay with their assignments. It wasn't always easy to come up with a solution that would work out for everyone, but I hope that I managed. In most cases, you probably won't like all of the prompts you've been given, but I think that everyone should have at least two or three prompts they should be able to work with.
Because someone just asked me: you only have to write/draw ONE of the prompts you have been given, not several. There are only several prompts so you have a choice. You can, of course, do several if you like. ^^

Go forth and be creative. As I said before, if you have any questions about your prompts, please contact me, not your giftee. If you have to drop out, tell me as soon as possible. If you want to yell at me for giving you horrible prompts, feel free to do so, but I can't change it anymore. If you miss the deadline without talking to me before, Stannis will chop off your fingers.

Oh, and I'm very happy to announce that we have 30 participants! I certainly didn't expect so many people to sign up, I thought it would be great if we'd be a dozen or so. So, thank you all for participating. :)

Sign-up form:


Active Email Address:

Have you read (all) the books?



What kind of gift can you make?

Fic and/or fanart? (If you can also make other things (layout art, icons, videos etc.), you can put it here as well, in case someone asks for it, but you should be able to offer either fanfic or drawn 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? (gen, romance, smut? het, slash, femslash? fluff, angst, violence, crack? Give me a general idea of what you can and want to do.)

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



What kind of gift do you want to receive?

Fic and/or fanart? (If you want something else (layout art, icons, videos etc.), you can put it here as well, but I can't promise that someone will participate who can make any of that, so you should also be okay with either fic or drawn art.)

Preferred characters and/or pairings:

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

What kind of fic/art do you generally want? (gen, romance, het, slash, whatever, see above)

Give at least three and up to five prompts/ideas: (Please keep it general enough for your author/artist to be creative! It can be a scene you'd like to see (e.g. "Stark family reunion"), a pairing (plus maybe a little prompt or idea), a character (plus a prompt/idea), an idea for an AU (what if this or that had happened) etc. Also, please don't post three almost identical ideas - your author/artist should have something to choose from.)

Your pet peeves and other things you DO NOT WANT in your story: (if you hate unhappy endings, or dislike AUs, or hate certain fandom theories - anything that your author/artist should know about)



Are you willing to beta read for other writers?

Are you willing to pinch hit? (That means, are you willing to fill a second prompt if another participant drops out?)


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- If your sign-up form includes spoilers (prompts like "what happened after character X did this or that in ADWD?"), please put a spoiler warning in the title of your comment. 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.


- I will send your assignment to you by e-mail, probably on September 3rd. Please make sure gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com doesn't end up in your spambox.


- Send your finished fic/art to gotexchange[at]hotmail[dot]com. The deadline is October 16th.


- If you don't want to sign up, but you'd like to participate in other ways, tell me. Mainly if you would be willing to beta read. And it would be great if you could promote this fic and art exchange in other communities. I will do so myself as well, but I'm not a member of every single ASOIAF community on LJ. ;) The more people participate, the more fic and art there will be. :)


Any other questions, comments, suggestions, problems? Have a look at the FAQ post, and if that doesn't help, just leave a comment.


Most importantly, don't be shy, sign up, and have fun. :)