Another round complete!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

* Thank you to our participating writers and artists for keeping us entertained in such a variety of forms and fandoms:

akisawana, aliana_iskassa, allira_dream, a_mael, amethyst_hunter, andremeese, anenko, aniai, anime_angel_ash, apapazukamori, ariseishirou, artoni, beckyh2112, belladonna12, blackanise, blackcentury, casper_san, ccgirlie, chibimazoku, childofatlantis, circeniko, cmc42, cornerofmadness, daniela_lynx, de_yaten, dogmatix_san, dytabytes, eerian_sadow, emerald_embers, eternalsayonara, fantomfox, fireun, fox_the_kitsune, freeradical9, freezing_rayne, fuzipenguin, gallerae, gisho, gorogoro, gryvon, harukami, hitosyura, inarticulate, incandescens, inksheddings, janegray, jlsigman, karanguni, kawaiigami, kinrazza, kristinmachina, kubaru_suki, kunenk, kurumu, ladyearisu, lady_ganesh, ladyofshadow, laryna6, lazra, lazzchan, lillypuff, liralen, logistika_nyx, lurk_stiltzkin, macavitykitsune, manga_queen, manic_intent, marmaladecat, midnightdiddle, misura, mithrigil, nanakibh, nekokoban, n_finitefangirl, nyxmidnight, orenda33, phishy, queenoftheskies, ravenbell, reversedhymnal, rosehiptea, rosethornli, rroselavy, sarasa_cat, scathachdhu, sister_dear, sjen, star_of_heaven, sumthinlikhuman, syvia, thisispurgatory, threewalls, tiamatschild, timmesque, toujourspret, veleda_k, vilkacis, volta_arovet, wanderingscroll, winglessgryphon, wk_recomend, writtenbyrandom, xellos_otaku_21, yuuzaiden, and zebra_in_dream

Please let me know if I've missed anyone. If I did, my deepest apologies, it was unintentional.

* Please feel free to catch up on all the fabulous fic and art created by the above listed authors/artists and many more. And don't forget to shower them with love. [Tags]

* Don't forget that late entries are still accepted, so if you've been too ill/busy to complete that prompt you desperately wanted to write, feel free to finish off and post!

Comments

[incandescens]

And many thanks to you and to all who mod or helped mod for excellent administration!

[syvia.livejournal.com]

*HUGS* XDDDD

[kawaiigami.livejournal.com]

Cheers and virtual cookies (or other treats) for everyone! XD

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! Got all of mine in this round! Although 12 is a shameful 'all' for a writeaholic like me...

...would I be taken out and shot by overworked mods if I were to ask when prompting for the next round will starts?

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Hehe! *hugs*, I'll see with animadri as soon as I get the chance ;), but we'll probably have at least a month's break guessing on previous rounds!

And well done hon :D, I'm still tootling away on mine but work is sapping the energy out of me atm; at least I've got a mini-break booked soon to catch up!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

*clinks glasses* Skol!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

*SNOOGLES*

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

That's fine hon :), better late than never! Besides which, got at least a month until new prompts start getting collected so you've got a lot of catch up time if necessary.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

*hugs* You're very welcome hon!

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Good luck, and don't knock yourself out.

[vilkacis.livejournal.com]

I'm still impressed at how big this was, how many people were involved and how low the suck quotient was. Wow. Must be kind of a pain to run, though...



(And I'll try to fail less at participation next time.)

[kristinmachina.livejournal.com]

Good job, everyone!
I know I'm still waaaay behind on a lot of prompts. That's my fault for taking on too much, and I'm sorry. I'll try and get them up as soon as I can.

[ladyearisu.livejournal.com]

It was my first time accepting a prompt, and I have posted it almost a month later... >.< but I am very glad for writing it anyways :) And congratulations to everyone who had accepted the challenge as well :)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

Thank you to the mods and their team for keeping this awesome community open and going and filled with love.

I had to sit out this time round from the writing although I'm not as prolific as some (I think of six and seven as many - where otehrs pick 20 or some other insane number more than I have fingers anyways) - due to one thing or another.

But I have enjoyed reading the fics and commented and generally enjoyed once again the extremely high quality of writing as well as the interaction between readers and writers.

You are all made of awesome and win, mods, writers and readers alike!

I so love this comm. So glad I joined. I hope to (be able to) pick up some next round. hee!

*throws confetti and clinks glasses (or mugs)* - Cheers everyone! Well done all.

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Something occurred to me. As it is, there's no actual incentive to complete claims. Maybe some sort of banner would work? I'm sure there are graphic artists in the comm that would be happy to contribute if it meant more fics. Maybe something like "_____ completed 5/5 fics for springkink's October 200X round"? Or something along those lines. Something that gives a number of how many fics they did and recognizes that they completed the challenge?

Just a thought. I don't think it's a good idea to put pressure on people, that stifles creativity like anything and this comm is meant to be fun, but giving people an incentive to succeed is a good thing in general.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for running all this! It was my first time writing and I was really, really happy to be able to and with the comments I got. It was a lot of fun and I'm really impressed at the sheer numbers and volume of stuff that the mods organized!!

Thanks... it was fun to stretch into so many different fandoms and know that at least someone was likely to read what I wrote.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Hee, thank you hon :D. It's a lot of fun to run this community and I'm glad you had a great first time here with your writing!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

how low the suck quotient was

This still makes me giggle and I've read it a good three times.

It's, generally speaking, awesomely fun to run this community :). I get a wee bit anal about organisation so I love going through prompts and sorting them out, but that might just be me ;).

And hey, don't worry about participation <3, the whole point of this community is low pressure writing of a great variety of things :D. Experiment, have fun, and enjoy!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Don't worry hon, you're not the only one <3! And better late than never!

Besides, there'll always be new rounds to play with :D.

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

Hehe, don't worry hon, sometimes tardiness happens to the best of us ;). Glad you had fun!

[emerald-embers.livejournal.com]

You're thoroughly welcome hon, and I'm glad you had fun reading and writing!

Cheers to the next round as well ^^

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

I dunno about that, really. The incentive for me, so far, has been 'OHGOD THIS IDEA IS SO AMAZING WHY I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT BEFORE!?' and then writing it.

The incentive, more than 'I got these many fics done' is, I think, sharing inspiration, sharing awesome in an awesome place, no pressure, and if RL happens, you can still write it later.

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

misura still tops me. Woe.

*shounen character pose* I WILL BEAT YOU, MY RIVAL. ONE DAY.


.... and man am I late on this but. Favoritest writing community, yes. ♥ *snugglecuddles!*

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, of course, but when I started watching it this community was a place where you couldn't post it later. Someone asked a mod what they should do about a missed date story and they said to either post it on that date next round or never. *shrugs* I don't have a problem with the change, and the increase to four writers/prompt makes it a lot less bad for everyone else when someone claims a lot of popular prompts and then doesn't post, but it would be nice to have seen a third of the fics I was looking forward to seeing this round. I counted up the fics that looked good from the prompts list, and, well... the output was rather disappointing compared to previous rounds. A lot of things I was REALLY looking forward to haven't been posted. A lot. And it's not just me who's been disappointed by this.

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but real life happens and an incentive won't do a thing about that. One of my best friends was looking forward to writing and posting a lot, and then she had to take care of school issues.

If the prompts gathered interest, chances are that in a later round they'll create interest again. And perhaps when they've time, the ones who took the prompts will be able to post them.

[laryna6.livejournal.com]

Yes, I myself missed a few prompts at the end of the other round I was in because of health problems. But there's a difference between that sort of thing and the reasons a lot of fics weren't done. I still have those health problems, so I got around that this round by only claiming after I'd written, for instance. There are ways to deal with RL intruding. But people who claim everything that looks shiny and then aren't motivated to follow through are pretty annoying to the rest of us.

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

Seriously, realizing that one had too much to handle is a proper reason, or life suddenly happening in the middle too. The round past this one, I was working so I didn't write much. This round, since I wasn't working and was just taking care of some family issues, I took waaaaaaay too many and I considered dropping some because it didn't seem that I would enjoy it. In the end I did write everything because I'm stubborn like that, but, seriously.

Writing is about fun. This is a hobbie. The moment this hobbie starts being a chore, then it's not fun, and then it's not a hobbie anymore. I'd rather one of my prompts was dropped rather than the writer give something that s/he doesn't feel proud of, or something that they enjoyed.

And sometimes there aren't ways to deal with life kicking your ass.