the delphic expanse

Since next month is our birthday, Honeybee and I thought it might be neat to find a fun way to boost the number of reviews in the archive. I came up with something that's part challenge, part contest.

The contest part: The member who makes the most new reviews (excluding drive-by one-liners) during the month of September will get to pick an author from a list of volunteers and ask them to write a fic, just for them. It will work like the holiday gift exchange, in that the winner will request three things they want, three things they don't want, and suggest a prompt.

In the event of a tie, each winner will get to select a different author.

I have not yet decided if I'm going to extend this to second or third place winners as well. It will depend on how many authors participate, I think.

ETA: this pool of authors will also be used for the New Reviewer contest.

The challenge part: Unlike the Holiday Gift Exchange, authors will have a little more control over what they will/won't write. Volunteers will post to this thread with the following information filled out:

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:


I think that's enough. This way, the winner can choose someone suited to what they want and not be limited in what they can ask for.

So...Sign up here!

Signing up--it IS my project, after all!

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
All of the above.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
Trip/T'Pol. Dabble a little in Archer/T'Pol, Archer/Tucker, and Archer/T'Pol/Tucker.

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Yes.

STRONGEST RATNG YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
NC-17.

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
Yes.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:
Tough one, since there isn't much I won't do. Let's see...

1. Make one character look bad/stupid in order to make another look better.
2. Super-heavy angst--not because I don't like it, but because I'm not confident that I could write it without it coming off too melodramatic/stupid.
3. For the purposes of this challenge--anything that requires a lot of military/strategy stuff. I'll be in the midst of fall semester and won't have a lot of time to research it enough to write it well. (Sorry.)

CLAIMED BY TISH!

I'm on board! And I'll make it my personal todo for September to read and review as much as I can. (I owe people reviews on sites other than the DE too.)

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
I'm willing to write any of these but, honestly, my strength right now is GEN especially if you want something suspenseful. I'm decent at throwing in a dash of HET and/or SLASH into that overall framework and that would be my preference. But feel free to ask for something more from me.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
TnT

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Oh yes. I read other ships regularly. I'm just not confident about writing any of them yet, so be forewarned.

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
PG-13

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
No, not yet. I'm still working on that. I'll happily lead up to a nice fade-to-black scene though.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:
Not sure really. (I'm fine writing a deathfic, AU, MU, whatever.) I won't write something misogynistic, racist, excessive or gratuitous violence, etc. but I don't expect anybody here to be asking for those kinds of fics. Essentially anything of the type that's already in the archives I'm fine with writing.

BTW, I'll add one other thing I'm willing to do: co-write, if the other author is willing.

CLAIMED BY HOPEFULNEBULA!

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
I'm willing do do any, but I will admit having no experience writing Threesome/Moresome. But, there's a first time for everything, isn't there?

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
Trip/T'Pol (by far), Archer/Sato, though I've dabbled in Reed/Sato and Archer/Reed.

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Absolutely! I love writing other pairings as a gift to someone else.

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
R (though that is at the very edge of my comfort zone)

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
No. Like Entallat, I'd be happy to do a pan-to-the-sky moment(s).

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:
Hm. This is a toughie--only because I know that those at DE wouldn't request the awful kind of stuff that I see in bad fanfiction. LOL

1. Anything that requires serious science and/or technobabble. (I totally suck at it, and I have no interest in taking my Trekkiness to that level. )
2. (Stealing from Aquarius): "Make one character look bad/stupid in order to make another look better."
3. Anything more than a oneshot. I have so much on my plate these days, I can only handle one epic story at a time (which, at this moment, is Dark Echoes).

I'm IN, natch.


LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
All of the above.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
Trip/T'Pol. Archer/Sato. Have done Archer/T'Pol, Reed, Sato, Archer/Reed and Archer/Tucker.

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Yes.

STRONGEST RATNG YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
NC-17.

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
Yes.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:

1) Rape stories (just brings me down)
2) Heavy angst - I'll do angst as long as there's some semblance of a happy ending
3) Torture of any kind

CLAIMED BY ASEARCHER!

Oooooh! Pick me! Pick me!

WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
Any. No problem.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
R/S, some A/T'Pol and a few TnT, and a collaboration on R/Shran, a lone Tucker/S story, and did a series put into one story of T/R.

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE?
Yes!

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
NC-17

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT?
Yes.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:
1. Rape as the main focus of a story

2. Torture that has no purpose other than gore or shock value

3. Over the top slash (by which I mean the characters are acting wildly out of character because of their slashiness)

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
All of the above.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
AT&T - Also, Archer/T'Pol, TnT, Malcolm/T'Pol/Tucker

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Yes. Give me a challenge! I'd love it.

STRONGEST RATNG YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
NC-17.

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
Do you have to ask? Of course! Yes.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:

Hmmmm…I'm pretty flexible!

1) Closed-mindedness
2) Like Aquarius, something that trashes a character in support of another ship
3) Non-con.

Thank you to those who have signed up so far! Since it is up to the winners to pick, we can keep taking signups throughout the course of the contest.

So, anyone else who's game, please sign up!

CLAIMED BY GLORY1863!

I'm in!
LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:
Het/Gen - I'm just not there yet with the other two catagories

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:
Archer/Sato

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?
Yes, but I'm most comfortable with Reed/Sato or TnT and least comfortable with Archer/T'Pol

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:
NC-17.

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?
Yes.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:

1) No torture
2) Like Aquarius, something that trashes a character in support of another ship
3) Like Misplaced, anything more then a one-shot. Life has gotten busy again.

CLAIMED BY PANYASAN!

Mistress Euclid wrote:Hmmmm…I'm pretty flexible!

That's what she said! </inner 13-year-old>

LIST IF YOU ARE WILLING TO WRITE HET, GEN, SLASH, THREESOME/MORESOME:

All of the above, but I'm most comfortable with gen. There can never be enough well-written genfic out there for my tastes.

'SHIPS YOU NORMALLY WRITE:

TnT. Though I'm open to most any 'ship. I've always kind of wanted to write Reed/Hayes...

WILLING TO WRITE 'SHIPS OTHER THAN WHAT YOU NORMALLY WRITE (YES/NO)?

Yes, but I might not be the most comfortable writing Archer/T'Pol -- not that I could never see it happening, it's just not my personal preference.

STRONGEST RATING YOU'RE WILLING TO WRITE:

Enh, I'll say PG-13 just to be safe. Not so great at higher ratings.

WILLING TO WRITE SMUT (YES/NO)?

Not for this one, sorry.

THREE THINGS YOU CATEGORICALLY WON'T WRITE:

-Overly dark fic (ie. torture, rape, extreme gore)
-Twilight-verse (the episode, not the sparkly vampires)
-MU fic (I'm fascinated by the MU but have trouble getting into the mindset for it)