spn_summergen | Mar. 19th, 2012

Hi, everyone!

Who is ready for another Summergen? Are you excited? I am!

Good news first: there will be a spn_summergen challenge this year.

If you are new to summergen, this is an anonymous gift exchange for Supernatural Gen fiction. You make between three and six requests when you sign up, and you offer to write a story of at least 1,000 words for someone else in exchange. You'll get your assignment via email and write away. Then, over the summer, stories will be posted anonymously. At the end, the authors are revealed.

Now here's the bad news: This is the last year I can mod this challenge on LJ. There are a lot of reasons, but it boils down to I don't have as much time on my hands as I used to, and Summergen takes up a lot of time. There are two options going forward: either we move the challenge (signups and posting) to AO3, which has tools that will save me a lot of time and make it possible for me to stay on as mod, or I hand the community over to a new mod for next year. I can stay on as co-mod if wanted, but the new mod would have to be prepared to do more than half of the work. [Or option three - 2012 is the last year for Summergen, but I really don't like that option.] Comment if you have an opinion, and feel free to PM me if you want to talk about maybe taking over the comm.

Schedule for 2012:

Brainstorming: 28 March - 7 April
Signups: 13 April - 30 April
Assignments sent: 14 May or sooner
Stories due: 30 June*
Posting begins: 9 July

*Note: Since the plan is for posting to continue through the summer, I will consider a later deadline for those who are going to be sitting exams in June. BUT you must request this early and I can only do it if not too many people need it. Comment on this post if you think this is something you will need.

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