Fic challenges (mostly Star Trek-related)

[jain]

My last week or so of thesis writing went something like this: "Write a couple of pages. Skim a book I should have read three months ago. Write another page. Check lj. Notice all the millions of things I'd rather be doing besides working on my thesis. Sign up for a fic challenge. Go back to writing my thesis."

The upshot of this is that I'm now signed up for three and a half new fic challenges, including two big bangs. (The "half" represents a challenge that doesn't have formal sign-ups, but for which I've submitted prompts and that I intend to participate in.) And, in an effort to spread the terror joy, I thought I'd post links.

The one multifandom challenge is polybigbang. Currently, most of the participants are from Torchwood or bandom, but there are no restrictions on your chosen fandom. (For the record, I'm planning to write Kirk/Uhura/Sulu.) This is also the big bang challenge that I have some confidence that I might finish, since it only has a 10,000-word minimum. Sign-ups for writers close July 18.

Then there's startrekbigbang, which I noticed a number of you have already signed up for. 15,000-word minimum. (Aka, nearly twice as long as my longest story to date. Yikes!) Sign-ups for writers and for artists both close July 15.

The Star Trek Genderswap Ficathon is taking prompts until July 8. It's inspired by liviapenn's Genderswap Recasting--which is a thing of beauty, if you haven't yet seen it--but the ficathon allows you to envision your own characters, as long as it's a fully genderswapped cast (e.g. you couldn't pair a male McCoy with a female Kirk). Anyone can contribute prompts, regardless of whether they plan to write a story for the ficathon, so if you have any great ideas, please throw them that way.

Finally, I'm participating in cliche_bingo. Sign-ups for that one are already closed, but you can see my bingo card behind the cut. The gold squares indicate stories I've already started writing, and the purple ones are squares for which I've gotten ideas, but haven't written anything. You'll notice that the combination of colored squares makes no acceptable bingo pattern. If anyone has story ideas to suggest for some of the other squares, feel free to share.

Woke up in bed together	And nothing but...: Truth serums, truth spells, and truth drugs	Magical creatures	Possession and mind control	Vacations and holidays
Mirror, mirror: Dopplegangers, clones, and evil doubles	You're only young twice: Age regression	Tentacles	Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey: Time travel	Scars
Sensory deprivation	Second person narration	Author's choice	Fusion with another fandom	Day-in-the-life
Androids and robots	High school/college AU	Everyone thinks we're doing it	Telepathy	Relative values: Families
Character study	Dystopias	Quarantine	Coming of age	Secret admirers