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Please note that we'll will be extending Challenge #46 through until NEXT Monday, October 23rd, not this coming Monday, to give everyone a chance to reset to the usual schedule. Following that, we will be returning to the regular weekly format. Our next Amnesty period will be following Challenge #50 and run for its normal two weeks.

Thank you!

Based on the feedback from this discussion post, the majority preference seems to be with voting reminders, so I'm looking for someone to take on the responsibility of posting a voting reminder on Tuesday evenings.

I will also be revamping the wording in the FAQ regarding being able to vote for fics while being canon unfamiliar, and to clarify with examples the yes/no's of showing entries before the voting closes.

Secondly, as we didn't get any additional offers for full-time bannermakers, we will be discontinuing banners for the time being, but will open them again once people's schedules (including my own) lighten enough to generate more volunteers.

Challenge 40 will be posted shortly!

Hello writers, I hope you're having a good April so far!

This is a quick announcement to let you all know that I'm putting a comm on a tiny two-week pause for a couple of reasons.

One, I'm in exams next week. Boo.

Two, although we've got a steady contingent of regular contributors, and we're getting new participants on a lot of challenges (YAY!), our voting turnout is... well, it needs some work. In a lot of weeks since the second amnesty round, we've been getting 10+ entries, but only 2-3 voters.

The voting aspect is an important part of how a challenge community functions; not just in regards to the actual points count and the finalists, but because it fosters the (friendly) competitive atmosphere that comms like this one operate on.

Obviously I don't want to make voting mandatory if you've submitted an entry, and I don't want people to throw in random votes just for the hell of it, so I'm opening the floor to suggestions on how we can get participation in this aspect of the community up to healthier levels.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Blanket disclaimer, when I'm replying to everyone's posts, I'm not shooting ideas down, I'm just bringing up points for expanding on for discussion :)

EDIT x2: Links and codes for advertising the comm in your journals can be found here!

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Challenges will resume on Wednesday, May 3rd on the regular schedule! I'm hoping two weeks will be enough to get some discussion going about this so we can implement any changes we may need.

Hi all, sorry for dropping off the earth again. I'm having some health issues, and I'm going to be going in for a few surgeries in the near future, so I'm holding off putting up any new challenges because I won't be around to actually post/follow up with them.

I should know more by the first of the month, including the scheduled dates, so I'll amend this post at that point.

Until then, I'm cool if you guys want to treat this like an extended Amnesty Week and post stuff in that format, at least until I have something more firm for making plans.

Thanks,
- Li

(If you also follow us on Plurk @ fandomweekly apologies that you'll be seeing this notice twice!)

Hello writers! Due to some real life things, and a vacation in which I'm not going to have any internet access for a bit, the community is taking its own mini vacation for the next 2 weeks.

I'll be leaving the Amnesty Week Month?? running during this, so enjoy a bit of writing downtime and we'll be back to normal midmonth.

Challenges will resume Wednesday, August 17th.

Thank you for understanding!

Hello everyone!

Just a note that we'll be extending Challenge #015 - Patriotism for another week, to run through until Monday, June 6th at the usual ending time, 9PM EST. Remember that you can submit up to TWO entries per challenge.

Happy writing!

Hello writers!

Based on lots of very helpful feedback on THIS POST, the overwhelming preference of people who responded is to shift the challenge week so that it covers a weekend, to allow for more writing time. So we're going to move to a midweek schedule, and try that out for a time.

Right now, the timing of things starts with the Challenge Post on Sunday, closing on Friday when the Voting Post goes up, and Voting through the weekend until Sunday when the results and the new challenge goes up.

The new schedule will be as follows:

Challenge post goes up on Wednesday @ ~9PM EST, with entries to be submitted until Monday night when Voting is posted, then voting through Tuesday-Wednesday until the results and new challenge go up Wednesday evening.

To facilitate this changeover, our first Amnesty Week will run a few extra days, to carry us through until Wed, April 20th, when the new schedule can takeover smoothly.

As always, your feedback is welcomed on this post, or on the Mod Contact page.

Thanks everyone!

Good morning, writers! I had an excellent suggestion to set up an AO3 community for anyone who wants to submit their works to a central place, so here we are:

http://archiveofourown.org/collections/FandomWeekly/profile

I've also added the link to the profile as well, for convenience. Remember that only works from completed challenges can be posted, so anything from Challenge #001 is good to go, but nothing yet from Challenge #002.

I think (if I've set it up correctly!) that it should have open posting membership, but if I've buggered something up along the way, let me know.

Our first challenge will be going live on Monday, February 1st! In the meantime, check out our Guidelines post, or start thinking about themes to suggest if you're already feeling creative.

Don't forget to follow us on Plurk at FandomWeekly for challenge announcements and reminders.

See you all on Monday!