Hi, and welcome to the sixth round of Be The First ( Read more... )

Sign-ups always start on the 20th, but this round will be delayed by two days. Sorry! Due to RL circumstances I've been offline for a few months (which is why the proposed September flash round never happened, sorry about that too). I'm borrowing a cell phone to make this post, but as soon as I get back home on Monday I'll get everything going - ( Read more... )

Hi again, everyone! I'm back with the questions/polls I mentioned before. I hope you've all been enjoying this year's collection - there are tons of great stories in there, so be sure to check it out if you haven't already.

Now then, to the polls!

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Please let me know what you think! Thank you all ♥

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The collection is live! We ended up with an absolutely amazing thirty-seven fics this year, the most this challenge has ever seen! Awesome job, everyone ( Read more... )

The deadline of 23.59 GMT on the 29th is almost upon us, which means that there's now one day left to finish your fic(s)! Technically, that is, because I'll throw in the same "surprise" mini-extension that I always do, and keep the collection open for submissions until an hour before reveals (which will happen at 00.01 GMT on the 1st ( Read more... )

Hello, everybody! It's now two weeks until the original deadline. However, I've gotten a couple of messages asking if there could be an extension due to everything that's been going on lately ( Read more... )

I hope you're all doing okay, despite everything that's currently going on in the world. If nothing else, I hope this challenge can work as a distraction from RL stuff. Take good care of yourselves ( Read more... )

Have you already decided what fandom(s) to write for? If so, how about doing some pimping? :D ( Read more... )

Hello, and welcome to the fifth round of Be The First! Based on your requests, two things are new this year: One is that there's now a DW community in addition to the LJ one! Several of you have asked for this, and here it finally is. Please don't hesitate to let me know if I messed up some setting or whatever, as I'm new to having an actual ( Read more... )

The collection is live! We ended up with a record-breaking twenty-seven fics this year, the most this challenge has ever seen! Amazing job, everyone!

As usual, please do not check out the fics out via the fandom list page on AO3. Only a couple of fandoms are listed there, due to AO3's wrangling policy, so most of the stories will not show up on ( Read more... )