Merlin big bang challenge.

[the_muppet]

I've been trying to contact the maintainers of boxofmagic through email and PM's to find out if it's running this year but have had no reply from any of them.

I'm still hopeful that one of them will reply and that boxofmagic itself will run this year, but if not, would anyone here be interested if I set up another Merlin fic big bang challenge community?

Just generally really asking what support there would be for such a community and what interest there would be in participating. So am going to include a poll below and also leave this post open so that those of you who are interested in this idea - in whatever capacity - could perhaps ask their own flists to consider this and then point them in the direction of the poll. So feel free to please ask your own flisters if they're interested and ask them to vote too so we can get a better idea if this is wanted or not; thank you =)

What I absolutely do not want to do is tread on anyone's toes here, and obviously what would make me happiest is if boxofmagic itself ran again this year. However if that can't happen for whatever reason, I'd like to try and enable some kind of Merlin big bang challenge to take place if I can.


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EDIT: http://the-muppet.livejournal.com/427106.html



Thanks for your time in reading this ♥

Comments

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

I'd definitely be interested in a BB if boxofmagic isn't running again! It would be good if it the fics could be hosted on LJ by the writers themselves and linked to the main comm though. And I've not seen that many 30/40k fics in the fandom, or even 20k, having a high word count threshold may limit participation?

Erm, followed a link from arphwoar, by the way, not just a complete stalker! :D

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

I do have an idea in mind that would offer either/both options to participants if they wanted, but it's only an idea at the moment and I'd need to see what people thought if I went ahead with it.

I've got a fair few fics of that kind of word count (and higher!) bookmarked on my Delicious account so they're definitely out there! So will you be voting to participate as a writer?

I'm glad you found your way here, however you got here, and please feel free to ask any of your own flisters who might be interested to come on over and vote =)

[lemniciate.livejournal.com]

That's good to hear! I think writers would have more control over their fics that way, and we won't run the risk of losing everything if the archive ever goes down

That's true! Though it's still a minority (unless I've just completely been ignoring the epics :D). I'd definitely be participating as a writer! I liked the choice BoM had regarding word counts, but the way it ran was really confusing in the end.

[the-muppet.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think if they created it they should have a say in where it's archived and given a choice. Like I say, I *do* have an idea but I'll have to look into it to see if it'll work =)

What was it about the word counts that you liked? I was thinking of simplifying things as much as possible and therefore just having a minimum word count rather than tiering things.