Rules Update and Chatter Post!

[white_aster]

Hiya all! As the first month of Origfic Bingo winds down and we get ready to head into our first Amnesty period, I wanted to first say congrats again to ALL of our bingoers! We have had 26 bingos, meaning that we have inspired over a HUNDRED pieces of original work in under a month!

Might I just say, "OMGYAY!"? \o/

Really, this is awesome, guys. Keep up the good work!

Some reminders as we head into November:

First Amnesty Week is Nov 1-7 - Remember, during Amnesty ANYONE can ask for a new card, whether you've created a five-piece bingo or not! There will be a specific post put up on Nov 1 for requesting new cards. If you'd like to ask for a new card, simply post any works you've completed on your old card to the comm with the *amnesty tag (and other appropriate tags), and then comment on the November card request. Simple!


Rule Change: New sign-ups will be taken only during Amnesty Weeks - Goes into effect starting Nov. 1. Up until now we've been giving cards to whoever wants them whenever, but starting Nov. 1 we'd like to confine new sign-ups to Amnesty Week, to try to contain the card-giving to a smaller timeframe. New sign-ups should be done on the latest Amnesty Week/Sign-Up post available (mods will be switching off on who gets the comments for each card-request post, so containing the requests to one post makes it easier not to get confused and give out a card twice.)


New cards/prompts: Your cards will look a bit different next month. We will be using a new html-based card-generating script generously coded by staranise. This is much easier than our old method, and also is friendlier for those with screenreaders or who otherwise have problems with images. We also will be adding some new prompts into the mix for subsequent rounds. Nothing too scandalous, just things that we realized got left off the lists (yes, "xenokink" and "aliens", we are looking at you) as well as some new prompts that we think might be fun.

Ok, enough rule stuff. On to the chatter! How has your bingo experience been so far? Are you looking forward to ditching your old card for a new one? Making slow but steady progress? Still wrestling the muses into submission?

Also, to facilitate the new-prompt-adding, what would be the one prompt you'd like added to the prompt lists? We will entertain any and all prompt suggestions, one per person, for inclusion on the new cards next month! We just ask that you make sure that your prompt (or one very much like it) is not already on the prompt lists. We reserve the right to not add on prompts that duplicate others or are more specific versions of blanket/umbrella prompts (ie, no need for "tango" when there's already "dancing"). Other than that, go crazy!

Comments

[birgitriddle]

I probably won't manage a bingo on my current card, but I'm going to try and at least finish one or two pieces before amnesty week starts.

(My brain got eaten at some point - I am so glad that we get to do this all year, though I wish I had longer than a month to get a bingo. ^^;)

[white_aster]

Wait wait, you totally have more than a month to get a bingo! You can work on your card as long as you'd like. You CAN ask for a new card during Amnesty Week if you haven't completed a bingo, but you absolutely don't HAVE to. You can work on your original card for a whole year if you want. :)

[birgitriddle]

But what if I want a new card and my old one at the same time ? Is that allowed? I mostly want a new card so I have a non-kink card.

But yeah, the bingo I am working on at the moment is one that involves me writing eight stories. ^^;

[white_aster]

to be honest, we don't really check folks' bingoes against their cards. Folks could be totally making up their prompts and we'd never know. So, really, there's no reason for not giving you a new card if you want one, and if you want to work on two bingos on two cards at the same time, that's fine! :)

[amethystfirefly]

Oh! So you can have more than one card going?

Also, can you request a new card if you haven't done any work on the old one? -sheepish look- (I like the prompts! The ones I want to write are all linked to a world that's a bitch for me to access, though. grr, argh.)

[white_aster]

Why not? We just don't want people asking for a billion cards, looking for the One True Card. But if folks want to work on, say, a gen card and a GRK card, that's fine.

And yeah, you can totally ask for a new card during Amnesty Week even if you've written nothing for the old one. :D

[amethystfirefly]

-laughs- Yeah, I won't be asking for a billion cards. I'm not that much of a masochist. I'll have to make it work with whatever I get.

And kickass. Thanks!

[birgitriddle]

I also am going to assume that you don't mind if we turn kink prompts into non-kinky stories. XD I'm just going to have to decide if I want a gen only card or a gen + romance card.

[white_aster]

Nope, we don't mind! You can take the prompts in whatever way you want! :D

[recessional]

Prompt: "absolution"

[white_aster]

AWESOME. ^_^d

[wallwalker]

I approve of the HTML cards! :)

I'm having fun so far - I haven't really been able to finish a bingo, partially because my last fic for this bingo is going to turn out to be over 2000 words, at least. But I'm almost there! (I do think that in the future I might change to the gen-only prompts. Nothing against romance, but the gen prompts are giving me more ideas.)

One prompt... hmm. How about Conspiracies/Conspiracy Theories? Those are fun!

[white_aster]

Conspiracy sounds like a great prompt. :D Good luck with your stories!

[penny]

How about Conspiracies/Conspiracy Theories?

omg! This made pretty much every single one of my original characters perk up. HELLO WILD CARD SPACE! :D

[ahouseforrain]

Blush (I consider that a gen prompt, but you can do with it what you wish)

I'm looking forward to new card week...

[white_aster]

Sounds good!

[dragonjournal]

Prompt: "crush"

[ex_pippin880]

prompt: rejection

there are too many happy prompts >:D

[white_aster]

Heh, you think so? I was always worried that we were overweighted on doom and gloom because of the h/c prompts in there, but then I admit, I'm a fluffy happy writer. Rejection's a good prompt! Thanks!

[ex_pippin880]

h/c?

[recessional]

hurt/comfort.

[ex_pippin880]

*googles*

Huh.

Fandom sure is weird!

[white_aster]

Eh, no weirder than anyone else who likes romances or high school AUs or any other subgenre. "Make it bad then make it better" isn't a fandom-only trope, just something that fandom has given a specific name to.

[ex_pippin880]

...High school AUs? o__o w-what? how does that work?

[white_aster]

Alternate universe setting where the characters are all in high school together (usually aged-down to highschool age). I've...never really seen the appeal of them, but they are fairly common. Seems like if a fandom gets big enough, SOMEONE pulls the idea out and writes it....

....ok, if I was making the point that fandom is not weird, perhaps that was not the best example to use! :P

[ex_pippin880]

Hahaha. :D

I tried to get into fanfic in high school because a friend liked it, but my mind isn't compatible with fanfic's basic tenets. So now I just mostly :? at fandom-things.

[white_aster]

sorry, h/c = hurt/comfort. A lot of the injury- and disease-related prompts are off that kind of list. ^_^;;

[persiflage_1]

I've one complete story, and two partly written ones for my current card. Law & Order: UK plot bunniez ate ma brainz! (I blame Freema Agyeman - her characters are compelling!)

Anyway, the show's off air again now until the new year, so I may yet finish another prompt before the end of the month - but I'll have to use the Amnesty to grab a new one.

*sighs* Oh plot bunniez, you naughty naughty fellows!

[mercredigirl]

4/5 done, will try to hammer out the last piece for my bingo (and I love my pattern too). *glares at procrastinating self*

Thanks, you all, for making this challenge possible! :)

[white_aster]

You are welcome! :D

[brewsternorth]

You've got "disability (sudden)" as a prompt under the Gen column; how about "disability (pre-existing)"?

Thanks for the new card generator and new prompts!

My original muses have definitely been given a poke, but it's going to be a wee while before I have anything ready for posting.

[gehayi]

Oh, yes, I LOVE this one!

[white_aster]

...that would work! I never really noticed that in among all the injury and illness and mental health things on the list, that there wasn't anything like that.

[gehayi]

I don't have anything approaching bingo yet, but the bingo card is REALLY helping with the additional scenes for the novel! Thank you so much for this!

For the new prompts, I'd like to suggest: pain.

[white_aster]

If it's helped, then that's all that matters! :D

Pain works! We have lots of injury/illness/etc. prompts, but nothing like that.

[azuire]

I've managed quite a few strange patterns on my current card, but I won't publish my entries to this comm because of publishing copyright weirdness. But I'm here scribbling away in the corner! :D

prompt suggestions of mine, hope these are helpful:
1. double crossed
2. robot reveal
3. unreliable narrator
4. petard hoist

[white_aster]

Strange patterns are awesome! :D Scribble away! :D

[suzume]

I've written one thing for my card.

Honestly, my characters don't seem to want to have anything to do with me right now, so I'm not having fun with my card at all (but that's my fault, not yours, so no complaints here), but I am enjoying seeing what other people have written and drawn. I still think this is an awesome idea and community.

[white_aster]

Argh, I hate it when the muses won't talk to me. I always joke that they're off somewhere in the back of my head in the hot tub, enjoying the fruity drinks and the cute boys.... I hope that they get more talkative for you!