December is full of holidays, and to celebrate we're having two different challenges throughout the month.
The first challenge is for authors. Your job is to come up with a new story (be it a one shot or multi chapter fic) that includes or is inspired by a holiday in December. Of course there are a number of widely celebrated holidays such as Christmas, New Year's Eve, etc... that you can choose. However, you can also revolve your fic around one of the lesser known holidays in December. For example, did you know that Letter Writing Day, Cat Herders Day, Make Up Your Mind Day and Chocolate Covered Anything Day are all celebrated in December? Don't believe me? See those holidays and more here. Go ahead and start looking for inspiration and start thinking about your story/stories, but don't publish until December. There will be another news post in the coming weeks about how to make sure your addition is counted in the challenge, so keep an eye out for that.
The second challenge is for everyone. What's a holiday without a gift? The authors of EF provide us with the gift of stories year round, and it's our turn to return the favor by gifting them with some quality feedback. To participate this challenge, all you need to do is write 15 reviews that consist of at least 5 words during the month of December. We'll keep track throughout the month, so you can see where you stack up. I expect the list to be filled with reviewer MVPs (I'm looking at you magnus374) as well as long time lurkers who have 142 favorites but only 2 reviews. I hope to have a lot of awards to give out at the end of the month.
Speaking of awards, solstice has gifted us with her incredible talent, and created the awards for both challenges. If you contribute a fic and meet the review limit you can have both these beauties added to the awards section of your profile:
Questions, comment or concerns? Let me, Kathleen or Megan know with a note below or a PM.
--Susan on November 18, 2015 04:59pm 9 Comments
I am so excited to particiapte in both challenges!!! :D
Ooooh! Pretty! Great ideas!
Thank you all for continuing to serve up new and inspiring outlets for our fandom :)
Yay! These challenges have been such a fun way to push myself into writing more and I've loved reading everyone else's submissions. I'll definitely have to get something together for this one!
Also, Bathtub Party Day on Dec 5th? I hope some of our smut writers are thinking of participating!
All of these sound really great! I think I'm going to gather up my nerves and courageously write something because I love the holidays! Hopefully exams won't get in the way. *groans for a billion years* I'm excited! If there's no story I end up writing, I'll definitely love to do the second challenge! Which isn't much of a challenge but rather an act of kindness ^_^
:D This is gonna be fun!
Very excited for both challenges! I can't wait to see all the new holiday stories
If I've completed the review challenge but never written any stories can I still have my award pic?
Gorgeous awards! Thank you Solstice.
Looking forward to great fic and reviews. YAY December.
Here are some more December holidays
http://www.holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/december.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/xmas_other.htm
Kathleen