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[krickets]

I was just about to go to bed, but I remembered I have wanted to post this all week!

Has anybody reading this ever participated in, run, or even heard of, a fandom-specific slash-a-thon? I'd like to take a look and see how they've been done in the past to get an idea of how to stage one in the future.

cynthia_arrow and I are talking about putting one on for Battlestar Galactica due to the painful lack of m/m slash in that fandom and our quest to remedy that. (If only for a short while.) But neither of us have experience in holding fic-a-thons, let alone slash-a-thons.

Can anyone point me in any kind of direction?

Thanks!

Comments

[halfdutch.livejournal.com]

Well, (and this may all well be stuff you know, so if so, please skip): general ficathon advice is that you can go about it two ways: Solicit prompts and post a list from which people can then pick one to write. Or you can ask people to put in requests and what they're willing to write (pairings, ratings, etc.) and then match up requests to requesters. It's a lot more work that way, of course! I hosted one ficathon and about 2/3 of the fics got written, which I think is fairly typical. I think more people write if it's for someone else than if it's just something they signed up for.

Anyway, as far as getting people interested, I'd just pimp it around the appropriate comms and hopefully like-minded folks will come out of the er, woodwork!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I've participated in exactly one ficathon which resulted in my very first Supernatural fic actually. (Of which, there are surprisingly only two!)

The way it was done was you chose a number and based on that number were given a pre-selected prompt. And then you could write anything based on that prompt in any of the fandoms. (It was a multi-fandom ficathon.)

I was thinking of suggesting we set it up that way, and letting whomever choose whatever pairings that they wish and write a fic of any length, from drabbles to epics based on/inspired by their given prompt. Because I really don't want to limit people to pairings, etc. Leave all that up to them. I think they may be more willing to write that way.

It's a lot to think about and I definitely appreciate your suggestions!