There are also several multifandom Secret Santas like Yuletide and I Saw Three Ships.
#Fanfiction writing challenge free#
(if someone knows of an earlier one, feel free to edit).Ĭurrently, most large fandoms have at least one Secret Santa very large fandoms, like Harry Potter, may have several. Yuletide is currently the largest fannish Secret Santa challenge the first online fannish Secret Santas were Secret Slasha ( Buffyverse) and Don We Now Our Gay Apparel ( popslash), both of which began in 2001. Occasionally this leads to controversy when it is pointed out that Secret Santa challenges may, through terminology or scheduling, inadvertently cause non-Christian fans to be or feel excluded. The difference between a Secret Santa and a regular challenge is that the authors of the stories remain secret for some time after the challenge, and are then revealed, usually sometime around December 25. The Secret Santa is a special kind of ficathon. Nearly any type of fanwork might be the subject for an exchange, including fanfiction, fanart, vids, meta, essays, and concrit. If a fan is unable to complete her assignment, a pinch-hitter may be assigned.
Usually the participants are required to work in secret, not revealing whose request they have received until after their assignment has been completed and the finished fanworks have been posted.
#Fanfiction writing challenge mods#
The mods assign a recipient to each participant, who must produce a fanwork meeting their recipient's request by a deadline. In an exchange of fannish works, frequently called a ficathon when fan fiction is exchanged, when participants sign up they provide both a request (specifying the nature of the fanwork they would like to receive: medium, genre, pairing(s) or characters, rating, and possibly a prompt) and details about the kind of fanwork they are willing to provide. These were sometimes referred to as Art Interpretations.Īn example of an early online fiction challenge is the 2000 Kirk/Spock Online Festival seen here. Some early examples were in the mid-1970s in Interphase. Remix challenges occupy an odd sort of niche, wherein each participant uses the work of another participant as a prompt, but the final product is not necessarily considered a gift.Ĭhallenge activities may involve fanfiction, vids, fanart, recs, podfic, or any other sort of fan activity.įans have been "challenging" each other since the beginning of organized fanworks.įans in media zines sometimes wrote fiction in response to a single piece of fanart offered up by an artist or editor. Challenges may also involve participants working together to create a larger work, something like a round robin. Other challenges are prompt-based, in which each participant is given an assignment from a list created or compiled by the challenge mods. Some challenges are gift exchanges, in which each participant produces a work as a gift for a specific fellow participant. A challenge is an organized activity in which participants agree to perform or produce fan activities or fanworks according to some predetermined criteria.
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