Good evening, everyone!
Fyn and I would like to announce that Season 1 of the Fanfiction Prompt Challenge is coming to an end. Though participation tapered off in the final months, both of us were quite impressed with the level of participation for this project. With a mind on what worked well this season and what did not work so well, we are looking to make season two of this project a success.
For one thing: we will be putting this project on
*temporary hold for two months* while the fanfiction award nomination and voting process takes place. It would not be proper to have two separate series of votes on fanfictions at the same time. Additionally, we want to begin the planning stages of the second season with more participation from the actual possible participants.
As we pass from one season to the next, we're working hard to implement your feedback as best we can, and from what we've come up with so far, we have no doubt that Season 2 will come out of the gate even stronger than the first. We've already built our foundation- now we get to have some fun building on it. With the next season of the fanfiction prompt challenge, we're offering more incentives to participate with reward banners you can use to display your monthly accomplishments! Of course, this does come with a tradeoff. Fyn and I will no longer be offering the winner a chance to write a prompt for us, but this should allow us to mix and mingle with our fellow writers here more so than the previous year. Transparency is the name of the game this time around, and we'll be making a conscious effort to make this a user-run project.
*We'll be laying out our prompts in advance, approaching you for feedback*, Even potentially sharing some ideas!
And for participants and the winners of each month
*there will be a series of banners to choose from, each different from the forum award banners but available to show your hard work*. Each person will be limited to only one banner from the fanfiction prompt challenge, but their banner will be modified to account for each person’s level of participation. Indicating whether one is a “participant”, “one-time winner”, “two-time winner”, etc. In this way your efforts can still be rewarded, while allowing Fyn and I the opportunity to attend to our existing writing duties in the manner in which they deserve.
Season One was our trial run, our chance to test the waters and get a feel for how our new idea would be received. We expected a small turnout, and we were pleasantly proven wrong by the sheer number of works we read through the first half of 2017. Now that we've had the chance to listen to you and take our lessons learned to heart, we are confident that this second season can both retain and expand our pool of participants. Remember- anyone can be a writer, and we're here to encourage that spark.
More loot, more opportunities, more transparency, more prompts.
It's going to be a great season, and I can't wait to see you all there!
PS: Also, Sovereign, we will have our responses to your prompt and our response to our own prompt done within the next few weeks as well. We apologize for the delay, but we hope it proves worth the wait.
