SPN SUMMERGEN

Assignments for spn_summergen will be going out any day now! A new post will be made in this community once all assignments have gone out. Please don't contact the mods asking where your assignment is until after that post goes up.

YOU MUST REPLY TO YOUR ASSIGNMENT EMAIL TO LET THE MODS KNOW YOU HAVE RECEIVED IT.

If you don't reply, and we can't contact you when we chase it up, we'll be assuming you are in default before you start.

We've got 72 participants this year. Welcome and thank you to all those taking part in Summergen for the first time!

The assignment email will tell you who your recipient is, what her prompts are and give you a link to her journal.

About the match-ups: The matching is done based mostly on positives, not negatives. That is, we look at what you've said you can do, not what you say you can't. This does not mean you won't receive a prompt or two for characters or genres you didn't include. We wish it were possible to give everyone a perfect match for their offerings and prompts, but it's not. You should receive at least two prompts that match what you offered to write.

Some prompts are very short and cryptic. Where a short prompt doesn't specify a genre, we haven't made assumptions. Where a long-ish prompt doesn't specify a genre, we've used our best guess but your interpretation of the prompt might be very different.

Other prompts are pretty detailed. In these cases, we've tried to match character and time more than genre, on the understanding that the writer who gets it could choose to take the prompt in a different direction from what the promptee intended. You can also put your own spin on many prompts: a prompt for a casefic, for example, could be written as hurt/comfort, darkfic, comedy, angst, deathfic...anything that might blend well with the case.

So not all prompts are going to perfectly fit what you've asked for. What we try to do where people asked for particular consideration was to give prompts you can spin that way. So, for example, if JaneQ said she really wanted to get a Hurt!Dean prompt, we might have given her a set that includes, say, "Sam and Dean are trapped in a snowstorm." We figure JaneQ can throw Hurt!Dean into that situation easily.

( What NOT to write )

( Some advice for when you receive your prompts )

( Any questions? )

Most of all, if you get a prompt set you dislike or can't work with, we beg you not to post publicly about it. Think how your recipient will feel if she sees a post like that. If the mods have screwed up a match-up, it's OUR fault. Complain to US. Better still, don't complain, but let us know you can't do it. You might not be the only one. Sometimes we can arrange a trade and if that's not an option, we WILL find a solution for you.

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