The Tenth Doctor ficathon

[raven]

Sign-ups are now closed. Assignments to come shortly, I hope.

It's that time of year again, folks. I promised I'd do this last year, and now I give you:



"I'm so old now. I used to have so much mercy."
-the Tenth Doctor, School Reunion

Welcome to the Tenth Doctor ficathon, a gen, het and slash ficathon where all fic is welcome - so long as it features our beloved Tenth Doctor in some shape or form.

Sign-ups begin today, June 21st, and run until June 28th. I hope to have assignments out by July 1st at the latest. Stories will be due in a month, on July 31st, 2006. I will post a masterlist on my journal (loneraven) at midnight BST where everyone can comment with links to their fics.

If for whatever reason you sign up and can't make the deadline, the thing to do is to tell me. I won't be pissed off if only you tell me, so I can assign a back-up author and your recipient gets a story and everyone's happy. If you then get your story to me later, everyone's even happier. Just let me know.

To sign up, comment on this post with the following:

Your name and LJ name
Your email address
Three things you want in your story
One thing you don't want in your story
One thing you'd rather not write
Can you be a back-up writer?

Here's my sign-up, as an example:

Your name and LJ name: Raven (loneraven)
Your email address: iona.raven[at]gmail.com
Three things you want in your story: Ten being ruthless, gen, ghosts
One thing you don't want in your story: explicit romance
One thing you'd rather not write: smut
Can you be a back-up writer? yes

All stories submitted must have Ten in them somewhere. I'm willing to be flexible over this - if, for example, you want to see what happens to Sarah Jane and K9 after School Reunion, but Ten doesn't actually appear, that would be acceptable, as would a story about one of the members of LINDA, or the adventures of Mickey and Rose whilst the former was a companion. You get the picture. What wouldn't be acceptable would be a story about, say, Nine and Rose on Satellite Five.

Edited to add: Minimum word count is 1000 words, and you can write as much as you like above that.

Also, regarding old-skool requests, which some people enquired about - I've thought about this, and, well, whilst I don't object in principle, they make assigning requests very difficult. If you want to make a specific old-skool request (e.g., Ten/Romana, a cameo from Tegan, etc.) that's fine, but I won't be able to ensure your assigned author will be familiar with that bit of canon. If they are, then that's good and they'll write it for you, but if they're not, then they won't and you'll lose one of your three things. It's your call whether you want to make the old-skool request to start with. And of course, if you get an assignment that asks for something old-skool that you don't know about, then just produce a story based on the prompts that you can write.

One last note to the Yanks among us: if you don't want to be spoiled massively for season 2/28, then I recommend you don't sign up, as I'm sure many fics will have spoilers.

I think that's it. If you have any further questions, post a comment or email me at iona.raven[at]gmail.com. In the meantime, get signing up!

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[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Is done, my dear. Was worried that people would try and sign up in more than one place, but have realised that I didn't provide the signing-up info in the pimping post.