I Saw Three Ships: A Threesomes Secret Santa

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If I haven't got your story now, you have missed the mercy window (aka, I finished my story at 11:42 p.m. and stopped wanting to think about this whole project for ten hours.) I have e-mailed everyone from whom I have received a story, so if I didn't e-mail you about it, you are a defaulter.

However, even if you are a defaulter, turning your story in late has benefits.

1) Your recipient will be the lucky winner of two personalized stories! Yay!
2) Everyone gets to read an additional threesome story on January 6! Yay!
3) If your assigned writer turned in a story, your name will be on it, and you can publicly and proudly toot about it in your own journal.

Defaulted stories need to be in by January 4 to go up with everyone else's. I will still take them even after that, but astute observers may notice the changes being made to the files and infer the cause.

There are twelve days to go until I Saw Three Ships stories are due. Please let me know if you still expect to finish your story on time, or if you have to drop out.

Poll #1912
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None, participants: 36

I will be submitting my 3 Ships story on time! (On time means I will e-mail it to zvi at slashx-files dot com by 11:59 p.m. EST (UTC -5) on December 29.)

Just a reminder, stories should be sent to me as text file attachments to e-mails, or in the body of the e-mail. If you know how to use it, you may use the posting template, but if you don't know how to use it, skip it!

The submission e-mail is zvi at slashx hyphen files dot com.

Looking forward to a flurry of threesome stories. (If you do not have a Dreamwidth account, you should be able to vote in the poll after you login with OpenID. If you can't get that to work, comment anonymously on this entry [anonymous comments are screened] or send an e-mail.)

P.S. If your dreamwidth account name is not connected to the name/LJ account you signed up with, please comment here to let me know who you are, after you vote.

This is just a heads up: if your recipient did not post a Dear Sailor letter when 3 Ships assignments first went out, you should check the links to Dear Sailor letters again. A number of people posted their letters somewhat belatedly.

Please remember, the letters are optional, but you should do your best to avoid the things that squick your recipient.

Also, I've been rethinking the issue of prompts lately, and I would appreciate people completing this poll. (Remember, if you're following from Livejournal, you can vote in Dreamwidth polls as long as you've logged in with OpenID.)

Poll #1736 Prompts
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11

The current prompt format gives enough info for me to write a story my recipient will like.

The current prompt format is enough info for me to describe a story I would enjoy receiving.

The fic exchange which has the best prompt/prompt directions is: (post URL where I can see sign up directions)

Are we having fun yet?

Assignments have been sent out!

You will be ecstatic to know that I double-checked before sending out assignments and caught three mismatches before they ended up in your inboxes. However, I only checked once, not twice, because I actually do want to sleep tonight.

So…

If you did not get an assignment at all, (first check your spam filter and then) e-mail zvi at slashx-files dot com, comment to this entry, or PM me ASAP.

If you got an assignment, and it does not include a fandom you signed up for (double-check the confirmation e-mail I sent you and then), contact me ASAP. I can get your correct assignment (if I sent you the wrong one), I can magically produce an assignment for you (may take a few days), or you can drop out without penalty.

If you got multiple assignments, contact me ASAP so I can tell you which one is really yours.

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If you got your assignment, there is a match for a fandom you offered, and you suddenly discovered that there's no way on Earth you can write A/B/C fic, please drop out ASAP. Indicate if you want to go on the pinch hitter list for this year, and if you want to offer additional fandoms as a pinch hitter to what you offered in your sign up (remember, pinch hitters have right of refusal.) If you complete a pinch hit, all penalties are reversed. ( dates and upcoming posts )

Final participant count is 46 including me. \o/ Yay, ♥♥♥. People were matched on ~30 different fandoms. It took approximately forever to complete the sort. :)

Someone just signed up requesting SGA, Leverage, and The Unit without any identifying information. You must contact me right away with your e-mail address and fan name! Comments to this post are screened, or pm me, or e-mail zvi at slashx - files dot com.

We have 33 participants signed up and 6 precious and wonderful people have signed up strictly as pinch hitters. Thank you enormously for that!

I have added a few FAQs and clarified the drop out rule, if you want to check that out on the website. More exciting for some of you, I have posted a template for your challenge entries. Using the template is not obligatory, but if you want to use it, it saves me a little bit of energy.

In terms of what we have to look forward to in the challenge, a few notes from the sign ups:

Requests: Almost Famous, Gossip Girl, Dollhouse, Criminal Minds, Eureka, Heroes, Lord of The Rings, Psych, and Tamora Pierece's Tortall.

Offers: Axis Hetalia, Chuck, Fringe, Grey's Anatomy, House, Mentalist, Merlin, Popslash, SKy High, all the Star Treks, and Veronica Mars.

If you haven't mentioned 3_ships on your journal, or you haven't mentioned it recently, please do so. Sign ups close on Friday, so time is running out. Tell your friends, tell your enemies, and, most importantly, tell your fandoms so I have plenty of people to match you with!

There are 28 participants so far, not including yours truly. (The two people with unsigned registrations got in contact with me and will be participating! Yay!) We've also got three or four people signed up just to pinch hit.

Fandoms offered include Vorkosigan Saga, Top Gear RPF, Smallville, Numb3rs, Pirates of The Caribbean, Pushing Daisies, Lost, The Middleman, Being Human, The Big Bang Theory, and Chuck. Fandoms requested include Dollhouse, Chuck, Babylon 5, Popslash, Heroes, Gossip Girl, Spooks, Sarah Jane Adventures, NCIS, and Veronica Mars.

I requested announcements at several LJ newsletters, but I'm not sure what newsletter comms are at Dreamwidth. If you read a newsletter for which you think I Saw Three Ships would be appropriate, please either ask the editors to place an announcement, or send me a PM telling me the name of the comm, and I'll gladly make the request. Don't forget, mention Three Ships in your own journals. Signups close on October 30. I would really like us to have 40 participants signed up.

And, finally, just a thought. The minimum word count for this exchange is 1000 words, but there is no maximum. You might want to try making your entry into a novel and writing the first draft for National Novel Writing Month. Even if you don't reach 50,000 words, a good faith effort at NaNo should easily leave you with enough material to convert into two or three excellent short stories, and you only need one. If you're worried that getting your assignment on November 1 won't leave you with enough time to plot out a story, consider using Holly Lisle's Notecarding Method for fast plotting.

Next status update will be next week. Looking forward to sending out assignments and reading everybody's Dear Santa letters.

I Saw Three Ships is now open.

There is a rule change.

( Warnings are now required. )

The schedule is as follows:

* Thursday, October 1: signups open
* Friday, October 30: Last day of signups
* Sunday, November 1: assignments sent out
* Tuesday, December 29: Stories due by 11:59 PM, Eastern Standard Time (UTC -5).
This is a hard and fast deadline, due to the seasonal nature of the project.
* Wednesday, January 6* (Three Kings Day): stories posted
* Wednesday, January 13: authors revealed