Fic In A Box Schedule and Rules!

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Schedule:

August 9-18: Nominations
August 19-20: Nominations Cleanup
August 20 - 29: Signups
September 1: Assignments Out By This Date
October 18: Assignments Due
October 25: First Rolling PH Deadline
November 1: Last Day To Submit Makeup Assignments
November 6: Last Rolling PH Deadline
November 8: Work Reveals (Delayed to November 12)
November 15: Creator Reveals (Delayed to November 19 at 11:59pm EST)

All deadlines are at 11:59 PM EDT

Information

Fic In A Box is a 10k challenge where you have the option to split your 10k into as many works as you want! The minimum per work is 1k by default, but lower wordcount works will count if your recipient has opted into receiving them.

While this is primarily a fic focused exchange, there will be opt-ins for pretty much any medium, as long as we can agree on a clear and easily checked equivalent to 1k of written fic!

Collaboration is also allowed! Please see the Collaboration Post here (link) to see how it is allowed and what information you are required to give to the mods so that everything can be properly counted!

If you cannot complete 10k but have created one or more complete works, you can default on just the remaining wordcount. You will then be guaranteed (via pinch hit if necessary) a gift equivalent to the amount submitted (rounded down to the nearest 1k). There are also options to "earn back" guaranteed minimum amount by taking PHs or completing your original assignment.

Contact:

If you have any questions or need to contact us for other reasons, please do so by posting on the DW or emailing us at ficinaboxmod@gmail.com

Official Links:

• AO3 Collection
• Tagset
• Requests Sheet (Google Sheet)
• Requests Sheet (HTML webpage)

Post Links:

• Fandom Promo Post
• Medium Discussion Post
• Collaboration Post
• Posting Guidelines
• Pinch Hitter Requests

( Nominations )

( Signups )

( Assignments )

( Posting )

( Defaulting )

( Pinch Hits )

( Editing Period and Rolling Pinch Hits )

( When your assignments will be checked )

Collaboration

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Please feel free to collaborate to meet your minimums if you would like to do so! In order to do this, please respond to this post with who you are collaborating with, what AO3 names you will be posting under, who your recipient is, and what you are planning to do (the post is screened).

If you are collaborating with someone else who is signed up to the exchange (for example, if you are planning to write 5k for your recip and 5k for their recip, with them making 5k equivalent of another medium to go with each assignment) please be sure to be very clear on exactly how you are splitting things and what the mods will need to look out for to properly count your collaboration.

You can let us know about this at any time, but we'd prefer to know before you post the work to ensure everything is recorded correctly.

If you are not posting from a signed in account, please include an email so that we can contact you for any required clarifications.

Mediums and Length Opt-Ins

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While this is primarily a fic focused exchange, there will be opt-ins for pretty much any medium, as long as we can agree on a clear and easily checked equivalent to 1k of written fic!

You should also keep in mind when filling mediums that your fic *must* fulfill one of your recipients fandom/relationship requests. I will add Solo: Worldbuilding to any fandom that you need it in throughout signups. Otherwise if you match to Character A/Character B, then your fill must be something shippy for those characters. For very technical fills like schematics, I would suggest using marginalia or other notes.

This post contains the requirements for each medium, sorted by the overall type. Some mediums are in multiple categories. To make it easier to navigate, everything is separated by cut tags, so I would suggest reading it from the tag link (click here).

There is also a spreadsheet (click here) which has a lot of other more specific filters for you to use! To use the filters (the upside down triangles), just File --> Make a Copy. There's also an HTML table version of the spreadsheet here (click here).

You may request "Medium Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In", "Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In", or "Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Fanfiction Opt-In", but make sure that you mean it if you do!

Note that if any art is done in a physical medium, it should be on unlined paper except in cases where it would make sense (journals, lists, ect) to be on lined paper.

( Lower length Opt-ins: )

( Written Opt-Ins )

( Art & Design Opt-Ins )

( Audio Opt-Ins )

( Vid Opt-Ins )

( Poetry Opt-Ins )

( Mixed Media Opt-Ins )

Posting Guidelines

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Due to all the mediums options in the exchange, some of them will require you to add some information to your top author's note to ensure that we don't miss anything when tallying your amount!

All requested information should be posted in the top author's note, except for sourced images which can go in either author's note. You can remove everything but image sources from the note shortly before reveals if desired, but please don't do so until we give the all clear in an announcement.

For the ones where we ask you to self report amounts, we will still check to make sure it seems about right.

Mixed Media

• If you are mixing multiple medium tags and/or fic within the same work, put what mediums and the amounts per medium if relevant.

Multiple Works in the Same Work on AO3

• If you have multiple fics/other in the same work, please put a list of the works including wordcount or medium in the top author's note of the first chapter.
• (We'd prefer you only post connected fills together, except in cases like drabble collections)
• Do not gift anything to multiple recips.

Any submission that includes CC images, images from your canon, or art you did not draw yourself

• Please source any not-made-by-you images that you use (these won't count towards minimums but can be used as supplementary media).

Spoken Audio formats

• For any spoken audio formats that have a wordcount equivalent, we need to verify the wordcount!
• For audio works based on pre-existing text (eg, podfic of the recip's fic) please provide a link to the source.
• For audio works not based on pre-existing text (eg, you wrote something new or created it without a script) please provide a transcript, along with wordcount if the information isn't on AO3. (That is, if you're just pasting the transcript into AO3 under your embedded or linked audio, that's fine; if you're giving us a link to a pastebin then please tell us how many words exactly. We will spot-check in the later case.)

Images containing words that are counted for wordcount

• If you've posted an image containing words that count for wordcount and haven't posted a text-only version of those words to go with it, please provide the wordcount.

Works that include Photos/Manips

• Photos and manips will not count towards your wordcount in any cases, but can be used as supplementary material to enhance the main submission.
• All media (including photos) must be created by the person posting the work, be part of a collaboration we were informed of, be from the official canon, be properly credited images used with permission, or be properly credited CC licensed images. You should credit these in one of the authors notes on your work.

Poetry

• Please state in your author's note or a tag what style of poem you wrote.

Music that follows poetry rules

• Please either provide lyrics or let us know in the authors note how many lines you used and/or what style of poetry

Twine

• Put in your author's note the wordcount of the fic you wrote. (We will still eyeball this to make sure it seems right)
• Separately, you can report complicated code for + 500. We're considering anything beyond basic forward movement on branching paths to be "complicated".

Animatics

• Please let us know how many "frames" are in the animatic (with frames being loosely defined as images that may or may not share the same background/scene but have differing foreground positions)

AO3 Based Fanfic Exchange

• You will have to post something to fulfill the assignment on the back end and provide a jumping-off point for your recip; if you're uncertain what you should/can post while complying with the AO3 ToS, please feel free to drop us a line!
• Report wordcount for anything written.
• Please note that if there are any gifts made for the fake exchange, they will only count towards your wordcount if they also fill a recip's request by themselves. (This is to prevent a rather large fandom/pairing requirement loohole.)
• If there are any gifts on AO3 that need to be revealed, you'll need to either briefly make one of the FIAB mods a mod of the account to reveal it concurrently (we can remove ourselves immediately afterwards to preserve the fourth wall) or give us the password to the mod account.You can DM us password information instead of putting it in the top of your AO3 gift work if you would prefer.

Conspiracy Board

• If making a board with detailed parts, remember that any parts you want to also count individually need to be posted as per that medium's guidelines (they can be within the same work).

Creators Choice of 3+ In-Universe Mediums Per Work

• If filling this tag, you need 3 different In-Universe mediums within the same work.
• If your recip also requested individual In-Universe medium tags, then you can still post single fills for those tags without having to follow this tag.
• If filling the "That Fit The Canon Setting" variation of this tag it has to be something that makes sense In-Universe without an AU.

Nominations Open!

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Nominations are open! Nominations will be open until Tuesday August 18th at 11:59 pm EDT. (This was incorrect before, sorry! The schedule on the first post is the correct one)

The tagset is here: https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/4681

Please read the instructions below, and check the end for a couple initial clarifications!

 

( Nomination Instructions )