PicFic Tuesday prompt for Tuesday January 27th

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Beginning February PicFic will be changing its schedule to every other week, due to addtions of other challenges as well as the "Vive le France" special event coming up in the beginning of March.

So  prompts will be posted on the 2nd and 16th of February, The stories for these will be due February 10th and 24th respectively. So in other words only 2 prompts will be posted for the month.

If you are new to PicFic, here's the rules of the challenge behind the cut:

Due: Tuesday, January 27th.
Statistical stuff: Minimum 500 words no maximum.
Subject Matter: Should fit into the GENeral concepts of the community, and contains nothing explicit and reflects the 1960's series in style and content. However, that being said, there is a GEN-mature tag option for stories that contain violence, torture, angst or mild het.
Subject Header: Please include in your Subject Header the phrase "For Picfic Tuesday, the due date and your title.
Tags: Use PicFic, Gen or Gen-mature.

Here's your final prompt for January:

                                   

Comments

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of doing the same for WML? and the new Episode Challenge. That is to say, One prompt each for those, so one story for each during the month. Even I am looking forward to a slowdown :D

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Not a bad idea as I think we need a slowdown. We have to make sure our Calendar girl is on board with all these changes. Yikes!

You know this is pretty funny...a prompt getting about the same comments as an actual story. lol!

[carabele.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea to my way of thinking.

I've thought for a while that maybe we had too many challenges and thus they all start running together.

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

We've been juggling and trying to reach a happy medium. I think this will do the trick, especially with the variety we now have.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I agree. We can always make changes down the road if needed.

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

I don't think there's too many challenges per se. We are after all a writing site, so the challenges enable us to keep a good flow of fics. going to attract readers. After all, a writing site without stories is dead. We may not get a lot of comments, but the stats indicate people are stopping by and reading.

We now have enough challenges that they enable us to spread things out a bit over each month. The challenges give writers a nice choice of the ones in which they'd like to participate.

Some people may not like PicFics, or drabbles or stories about the women from UNCLE (and THRUSH), so now there's plenty from which to choose.

Still we also need to keep reminding writers that Section VII isn't just about challenges and that they're free to post their stories here.

As I've said before, it's all good. "D