Official Round One Sign Up! (Through April 6)

[lettered]

Round One Sign-Ups HERE!

This is the official sign-up post for the Jane Austen Round. Please read about what qualifies for this round here.

Sign-ups will run until April 6, 2010. Proxy sign-ups ARE allowed, if you can't make that window or if you do not have Dreamwidth. You may also sign up on Livejournal, here. All fics will be posted to both Dreamwidth and Livejournal.

Assignments will be sent within a week or two of sign-ups closing.


The Rules

1. Fanfic should be:

* At least 1000 words in length, sufficiently beta read/free of spelling and grammar issues.

* It should also contain any and all HTML that you wish included (such as italics). I will NOT go back and edit these in for you; your fic will be posted as it is received.

* Not part of a series, or a sequel to a fic that the giftee may not be familiar with.

* Based on the prompt originally assigned to you. No switching prompts/recipients without consulting with the mods first.

2. The mod assumes the right to approve and deny extensions (and multiple extensions) as she sees fit. I am likely to be generous if you ask ahead of time.

3. If you are kicked out of the first round of 19thc_exchange, you will not be eligible to participate in the next round. (Though you can participate in the round after that.) You can only get kicked out of 19thc_exchange if you fail to turn in a fic, or turn in a fic significantly after the due date without having requested an extension.

4. Submissions should be emailed to 19thcexchange at gmail.com. You can also contact lettered (or tkp on Livejournal) directly with comments and questions.

5. Submissions are due July 12th at 11:59 PM PST. Posting will begin July 13th.

Please think very carefully before you sign up, and please only do so if you can make the commitment.

Please read r_becca’s guide to being a good fest participant for starters. Think about your own writing abilities, how fast/slow you write and how good you are at meeting deadlines, because there is nothing more frustrating to a mod than the flaky and inconsistent.


Round one sign-up form

Please fill in every required field.

Proxy sign-ups ARE allowed, so if you are going to be away during the sign-up period, you may ask a friend (or the mods) to sign up on your behalf.

You MUST put your age/make an age statement. No one under the age of 18 can write/draw and/or receive NC-17 work. Those under 18, however, CAN participate.

Please note that you should use the field regarding canon preferences to note whether you'd like a fic based on a specific Jane Austen canon. For instance, you can pick “Pride and Prejudice”, and then you can specify you wish the fic to be 1995 Pride and Prejudice compliant (i.e., the wet shirt happened). Basically give your writer/artist guidelines for which novel, movie, or real life event they should work from when creating your gift.

You can also leave several prompts with preferences for different Jane Austen canons. (E.g. one prompt for an Emma fic, one prompt for a P&P fic, etc)

Here’s the coding for the sign-up. Please cut and paste the following into your comment:

<b>Name/LJ:</b>
<b>Email:</b>
<b>Age:</b> please note if you will turn 18 before August 15.

<u>For the gift you would like to RECEIVE</u>
<b>Kinks, genres or special requests:</b>
<b>Squicks/Things you'd hate:</b>
<b>Canons:</b> Which novels, adaptations, or real life events would you like written for you? 

<b>Two or three prompts for your gift(optional):</b>

<u>For the gift you will be GIVING</u>
<b>Kinks/Things you will gladly write:</b>
<b>Kinks/Squicks/Things you REFUSE to write:</b>
<b>Highest rating you will write:</b>
<b>Your writing strengths, or genre you feel most comfortable writing
<b>Canon:</b> Which novels, adaptations, or real events are you willing to write?  Please try to be as broad as possible.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Name/LJ: beatrice_otter
Email: beatrice_otter@haugensgalleri.com
Age: 27

For the gift you would like to RECEIVE
Kinks, genres or special requests:
Squicks/Things you'd hate: no slash or explicit sex
Canons: Persuasion (book or 1995 BBC), Pride and Prejudice (book or Colin Firth BBC version), Sense and Sensibility (book or Emma Thompson version)

Two or three prompts for your gift(optional): The way he's written, Darcy probably had Aspergers/high functioning autism (as discussed in the book So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in 'Pride and Prejudice' by Phyllis Ferguson Bottomer, Tony Attwood, and Eileen Sutherland). If you know something about the disorder, I'd love to see that included, but if you don't I'm fine with that too. In Persuasion, I would love a story that realistically deals with the fact that Anne and her new fiancee have spent eight years apart, and are now both different people than they were when they first fell in love. How does that affect their relationship? For Sense and Sensibility I would like almost anything, but how about something handling Marianne growing into a mature woman instead of a slightly-spoiled, naive girl? Austen sketches out in broad strokes how it happened, but I'd like something more detailed.

For the gift you will be GIVING
Kinks/Things you will gladly write: I'm pretty open. I don't do action or mysteries well, but those aren't generally found in Austen fic, so that's no problem.
Kinks/Squicks/Things you REFUSE to write: slash or explicit sex
Highest rating you will write: PG-13
Your writing strengths, or genre you feel most comfortable writing: character-focused pieces
Canon: Persuasion (book or 1995 BBC), Pride and Prejudice (book or Colin Firth BBC version), Sense and Sensibility (book or Emma Thompson version)

[lettered]

Hi! Thank you so much for signing up! Only three people signed up for this exchange. With me, that makes four. I don't think this is a very good number for this sort of exchange, but I wanted to see what you think. If you want to go ahead and try, I'm willing to write anything to fulfill the requests of those who signed up, so I'll throw my name in the hat too.

Meanwhile, even though you signed up, I hope you consider answering this post. It's asking what would tempt people to sign up, but I'm still interested in what would have made it more tempting for you, or why you did sign up. I really thought more people would--I'd like to get this ball of ours rolling! Thanks again for signing up.

[beatrice_otter]

Four people isn't enough, I think.

[lettered]

I think you're right :o(

Since so few people signed up, I'm changing the format of this exchange to an open style fest. I hope that you will still participate! Thanks again for signing up--so sorry it bombed.