Jukebox Fanworks Exchange

Good luck to everyone still working on podfic, fic, and art!

Time that works are due | Countdown

The deadline for posting assignments is 11:59pm EDT, Saturday 18 May. The collection will remain open for treats and pinch hits.

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Hello Jukebox participants! Your assignment is due in under a week!
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Treats can be posted to the same collection until works reveals.

If you're having a problem, please contact me at jukebox.mod@gmail.com! The earlier you let me know of a problem, the better the chance I can do something useful about it. That said...

Mod Out-of-Contact Time

I will be entirely out of contact from 9pm UTC on 24 May to 6am UTC on 27 May. (I'm at a scout camp. Absolutely no internet. We have one land line and a helicopter pad for emergency services [and a whistle and a light for attracting attention].) I'll get back about 22 hours before the deadline, and will happily deal with any queries then (especially with your drafts)...

Why would I have a problem with my draft?

tl;dr: there's a bug where a work you post anonymously skips the 'anonymous' part; you can get around it by saving your work as a draft and checking it carefully at that stage.

( The reveals bug )

Prompts from pinch hitters

This year we have many pinch hitters who aren't signed up for the challenge!

If any of you would like to give prompts that are based on songs and music videos, in case someone is inspired to create a gift, you are welcome to comment to this post or the LJ equivalent with your prompts. Thank you!

Please post your fics to the collection before 11:59pm EDT on Saturday 28 May.

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If you don't think you can complete your work, please default (you can press Default next to your assignment on AO3) and I will ask pinch hitters to cover the assignment you are relinquishing. People default for many reasons; you don't need to let me know yours. I am concerned only with where pinch hits are needed.

However, I hope that applies to very few people, and that most participants are either done, nearly done, or convinced they will be very soon be nearly done. ^!^ (I am in the latter category.)

Please contact me at jukebox.mod@gmail.com if you have problems submitting your work or if you have any other questions.

Thanks to everyone who got a work in. I know there are a couple of people still working.

If I have not heard from you - and you have not received my reply, confirming that I've heard from you - I will assume I need to find a pinch hitter for your assignment.

A couple of pinch hits will go out shortly. Of the earlier pinch hits, #5 is still unclaimed.

I aim to reveal the collection at:

5pm EDT, Saturday 6 June
9am NZST, Sunday 7 June
9pm GMT, Saturday 6 June.

Sign-ups will be open for approximately 5.5 more hours. They will close at approximately 6pm NZST on Thurs 16 April.

Here is the widget that displays the time in your time zone.

Last time I looked, everyone DID have a possible match both ways. Congrats! That means that I am likely to send out assignments a few hours after I close sign-ups.

If you are working on a letter, please try to ensure it's complete and unlocked by the end of 18 April in your timezone, whatever that is. I won't be checking, and there's no penalty, but it will help your creator get off to a good start if your letter is waiting for them (or coming VERY soon).

Please see the previous post for pinch hitting and beta reading.

Our deadline is in, very nearly, 168 hours.

You know the drill:

Countdown to the deadline

The deadline according to your time zone

Link to the collection

Thanks to all past, present & future pinch hitters. We might need a few more - if you think you can pitch in, email jukebox.mod at gmail to be added to the list. ^!^

Thank you to all who have contributed to the 51 stories currently waiting in the archive.

At the knell of deadline, I have three pinch hits (#s 6–8). If you can write for them, please contact me. Consider treats if you can't write a full assignment. In fact, consider treats generally. (This is not a ploy. I already have a treat! Thank you, writer(s).)

( Pinch Hit #6 - CLAIMED )


( Pinch Hit #7 - CLAIMED )


( Pinch Hit #8 - CLAIMED )


Deadline of each pinch hit is 05:00 am EDT or 21:00 pm NZST, Wednesday 25 September. I know that may seem like an odd time to Americans especially, but it's calculated to give me a back-up if something goes wrong on your end. :)

Just two more posts and then I shall cease to spam the comm for some time.


Deadline
To fulfil the challenge, your story should be completed and submitted by midnight of Monday 23 September if you are in New York, or 16:00 of Tuesday 24 September if you are in New Zealand, or at the point that this countdown turns to zero. I realise a couple of the dates I put down in earlier posts were wonky. Sorry. I'll make sure someone proofreads my dates in future.

I wanted to give everyone the maximum possible writing time for this challenge, before Yuletide is likely to kick in. But because of that, the 23rd of September is a really hard deadline: I'm hoping to reveal stories just two days later. Two days after that, I'm out of all cellphone/internet access for a weekend. (And I personally want to have time to comment on stories before I leave. :D) Just please be aware that there is minimal editing time between the deadline and reveal.

Treats
Treats are encouraged!

You can submit a fic that isn't your assignment by going to the main collection page and clicking Post to Collection. Make sure you fill in your recipient's name.

If your treat is over 1,000 words, and the original writer for that person defaults, it is possible your story may become your recipient's main gift.

Because of the tight timing at the end of the writing period, I will not be creating a separate 'Madness'-style collection for smaller treats. Just post them to the main collection. You can do this at any time. The main fic you are writing for your recipient must be 1,000 words or more; there is no minimum word count for any other fics you choose to write.

Check-in
In the middle of the writing period - approximately September 2 - I will reveal all requests in the collection, and at the same time, invite people to check in with me as to their writing progress. It is not mandatory for you to contact me at this point, but I think it's a good idea for you to check how you're going. If a lot of other commitments have come up and you realise you need to default, I'd much rather know that three weeks before the deadline than learn it right at the end. (I know this is not always possible to control!)

And hey, if at that point things are going great and you're feeling confident... all the prompts will be available for your treating needs & desires.

Betas
I strongly encourage you to get your stories read by a beta. Even short treats.

You may already have a regular beta, but in case you are in need of one, I propose we arrange things Rarewomen-style, with an email list.

It works a bit like the pinch hit list. When you have a fic you'd like a second eye for, you email me (jukebox.mod) with its length, its recipient, maybe its canon, and any other information you think is relevant. I will then act as go-between and send the details to a list of people who have volunteered for beta-reading, making sure to exclude the recipient. Someone replies, I connect you with a beta-reader, all is good. The advantages here are that a writer doesn't have to carefully check a list of people's squicks and lengths-I-will-edit, and they are able to connect immediately with whoever has free time at that moment.

Potential beta readers can volunteer for the email list in the next post, which will have screened comments (just like the pinch hit list).

Comments are enabled as normal on this post, if you have any critiques or suggestions.