slyc_willie
Captain Crash
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I've had this notion rattling around in my head for a while, and I've PM'ed Laurel about the feasibility of the idea. We'll see what she has to say about it.
FAWC stands for Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge. I know; catchy, ain't it? The basic idea is that all participants would write a story along a similar theme, be it outdoor sex, time travel, meeting an old friend, whatever. We would agree on a deadline for submissions, say, June 1st. The stories would all be submitted at the same time, and the winner judged by highest overall score after a period of, say, two weeks. The winner gets copious amounts of dancing bananas for their effort.
Here's the kicker: ALL stories would be sent to, and submitted by, a single user account (tentatively called FAWCker), and all would be posted in the same category (such as Chain Stories or N&N). The beginning of each story would have a disclaimer explaining the nature of the challenge. The true author's name will not be revealed in the submissions, but announced here. This way, everyone stays anonymous.
Maybe after it's all done, the individual authors could re-post the stories under their own names to the appropriate category.
I've asked Laurel if there is a way all the stories could be posted by the same user account to Chain Stories, or if it would be more feasible to post them as individual chapters to N&N, with a disclaimer that each chapter is a stand-alone story along a similar theme. The reason that all stories be submitted to the same category would be to make it as fair as possible.
This would just be a friendly competition, nothing more. There should be no tipping off fans or followers; what would be the fun in that? Besides, there are no real prizes, so why bother cheating?
Is there any interest in this? Anybody wanna FAWC?
FAWC stands for Friendly Anonymous Writing Challenge. I know; catchy, ain't it? The basic idea is that all participants would write a story along a similar theme, be it outdoor sex, time travel, meeting an old friend, whatever. We would agree on a deadline for submissions, say, June 1st. The stories would all be submitted at the same time, and the winner judged by highest overall score after a period of, say, two weeks. The winner gets copious amounts of dancing bananas for their effort.
Here's the kicker: ALL stories would be sent to, and submitted by, a single user account (tentatively called FAWCker), and all would be posted in the same category (such as Chain Stories or N&N). The beginning of each story would have a disclaimer explaining the nature of the challenge. The true author's name will not be revealed in the submissions, but announced here. This way, everyone stays anonymous.
Maybe after it's all done, the individual authors could re-post the stories under their own names to the appropriate category.
I've asked Laurel if there is a way all the stories could be posted by the same user account to Chain Stories, or if it would be more feasible to post them as individual chapters to N&N, with a disclaimer that each chapter is a stand-alone story along a similar theme. The reason that all stories be submitted to the same category would be to make it as fair as possible.
This would just be a friendly competition, nothing more. There should be no tipping off fans or followers; what would be the fun in that? Besides, there are no real prizes, so why bother cheating?
Is there any interest in this? Anybody wanna FAWC?