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trobadora ([personal profile] trobadora) wrote in [community profile] wintercompanion2014-03-20 08:50 pm

Doctor/Jack Gift Exchange #2 - Submission Guidelines

This post should give you all the information you need to submit your stories and artwork for the Doctor/Jack Gift Exchange.

The basics

All stories and artwork will be posted anonymously by the mods, so please keep your assignment secret! Don't tell anyone other than your beta(s) who you're writing/creating for.

Like all [livejournal.com profile] wintercompanion challenges, prompts should be used as a point of inspiration, but since this is an exchange, you must incorporate at least one of your recipient's requests. Please respect your recipient's stated "do not wants".

Please read these submission guidelines before sending your entry to help keep things running smoothly.

Deadlines

Please take the deadline - Saturday 5th April - seriously. Should you run into any real problems with the deadline, we'll do our best to help. But this is a gift exchange, and our most important job is to make sure everyone receives a gift. Because of that, all extension requests must be accompanied by a partial draft of the story or artwork. This is the important bit: If we don't receive either a completed entry or a draft with an extension request on the deadline day we'll start looking for a backup to take your place.

If you can, it would be fantastic if you could aim to get your story or artwork in early to avoid those last minute disasters that happen to us all at times. Obviously you're free to submit your contribution as early as you like, starting right now.

If at any point you are sure you won't be able to complete your story or artwork for the fest please comment here or email us to let us know. We understand that life has a way of happening, but we can't help (or find a pinch hitter) unless you let us know.

We'll be sending out a reminder email approximately one week before the deadline as well as posting to the community.

Submission guidelines

Please submit your entry to trobadora@gmail.com - we'll respond as quickly as we can to let you know we received your entry, and we'll check it over to make sure everything's in order. :)

Your entry can be any rating, but it must involve Doctor/Jack in some form.

Headers

Please include full headers when you submit your story or artwork. Headers should look like this:

Your LJ Name:
Recipient's LJ Name:

Title:
Author/Artist/...: (delete as appropriate)
Rating:
Pairing(s):
Spoilers/warnings:
Summary:

If your entry includes non-con, major character death, bestiality, necrophilia, hardcore kink or underage, then please include a warning. Any other warnings are optional.

Author or artist notes

Any notes which may identify you (such as beta thanks) will be removed until after the writers/artists are revealed.

Artwork

Please submit your artwork in an upload-friendly format such as .png, .jpg or .gif and remember to leave out (or blot out) your signature to preserve anonymity. Artwork will be uploaded to the mods' accounts during the exchange in order to preserve anonymity. After the reveal, we can replace the posted version with a version that has a signature, and is uploaded wherever you choose.

Remember, the minimum for artists is one piece of artwork, or an icon set of five icons.

If your artwork is large, we will need a preview image that is a reasonable size for a standard LJ entry - no larger than 400x300px. Your preview image may be the whole artwork or a teaser (only part of it) as you prefer.

Fanfic

Submit your story as a .doc, .rtf or .txt file with full LJ formatting, such as bold, italics, center tags, where needed.

Remember, the minimum word count for fic is 500 words. There is no maximum.

Please use a beta for your fic - you can use your normal beta if you have one, or you can look for a beta at the Beta Volunteers post. (Please make sure your betas know to keep quiet about which story is yours until authors are revealed at the end.)

For reference, the rules for the exchange can be found here.

(As a gentle reminder, when stories and artworks are posted, please take the time to comment on your gift - someone has worked hard on this! If you feel your author/artist did not fulfil the terms of the exchange, please email your mods before you comment on your story.)




Still have questions?

Please comment here or e-mail us at the address given above.

[identity profile] scifiangel.livejournal.com 2014-03-22 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I should have it done on time, but my muses have gone crazy! I was only going to do "a" manip and it's a full story over 1500 + words so far and several manips. I must be insane. If I need a little more time I'll let you know.

[identity profile] scifiangel.livejournal.com 2014-03-29 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
My story is done, just off to beta, but I have a question about hoe to send it to you. It has eight manip illustrations it set throughout the story. In the sigh version I'll just have them inserted, but how do you want them in the unsigned version?

I though I'd send the pix separately and numbered. In the story I could put (picture #1 here) where it goes that way you can store them on your archive and insert them where they go. Will that work?