ETA links: Follow these links to see the Holiday Challenge stories and the reviewers who have completed the review challenge requirements.

ETA 2: Just to clarify, for the review challenge, we're counting reviews of any story, not just holiday ones. Also, all awards will be placed into profiles at the same time after the end of the month.

Since December is only a few hours away, it's time to get ready for our upcoming Holiday Challenges! There's quite a bit of information here, so please read this through until the end.

Stories submitted for the challenge should be new stories (they can be sequels to existing stories), that still fit the rules of the site (e.g. Spuffy-centric) and are inspired by, or contain, a December holiday. Please note which holiday/holidays you're including within your summary or story notes. The stories need to be published between December 1-December 31, but they don't need to be completed within that time frame. *IMPORTANT* To make sure that your story is included with all the challenge participants, you must check the Holiday Challenge box in the add story page. The box will only show during the month of December, but here's an example of what it will look like within the page:

Only check the box if your story fits the challenge requirements.

On the browse pages, challenge stories will be marked with a snowflake, so they'll be easy to spot:

For the first half of the month, our lovely pfeifferpack will be featuring existing holiday stories on the main page, and the second half will feature a random assortment of challenge fics. Also, there will be a page to view only the challenge fics. Once we have a few added, I'll edit this news post with a direct link to the page.

Of course we can't forget the other challenge this month, the Holiday Review challenge. For that one, you don't need to do anything extra to participate besides review! We'll keep track off all reviewers who leave more 15 or more reviews that consist of 5 or more words. We'll have a page where you can see all the reviewers who have met the challenge requirements (I'll post the link when I add the challenge fic link to this post). Remember, the reviews are meant to be "gifts" to our authors, so please use this opportunity to let them know how much you appreciate their stories, and the work it takes to create them.

We hope that you have fun with these challenges, any they help put you in a holiday state of mind!

As always, let us know in the comments or with a PM if there are any concerns or questions.