RULES AND SIGN-UP INFORMATION
Hi, and welcome to Merry Pirates, a winter holiday story exchange for Pirates of the Caribbean fandom. penknife is your moderator. Please read the rules and sign-up information in this post before signing up!
To sign up, you'll make three requests for a character or pairing (or threesome) and a specific request or scenario. You'll also list at least three characters and/or pairings you are willing to write, as well as anything you particularly don't want to write. You'll be matched with a person who requested at least one of the characters or pairings you offered.
Your story needs to include one of the characters or pairings your recipient requested. Fulfilling the specific request is optional but highly encouraged, and your story shouldn't contain anything your recipient asked you not to include. Stories must be at least 1000 words.
I'll be posting stories through the month of December, so please turn in your story on time! If you're going to be late or need to drop out, let me know as soon as possible.
Last date to sign up: August 31
Assignments mailed out: September 5 (or earlier)
Stories are due: November 15
Posting begins: December 1
FAQ
Are there any other rules I should know about?
Please don't comment negatively in public about the request you are assigned or the story you receive. If it doesn't match what you offered or requested, contact me and I will sort it out. Otherwise, please write the best story you can and thank your author even if the story you receive is not to your taste.
Also, please do not bash characters or pairings in your request. It's okay to specify characters or pairings you don't want in your story; "No Elizabeth/Gibbs, please," is fine. "Spare me the Elizabeth/Gibbs, yuck" is not. Keep in mind that you may be matched with an author who also writes and enjoys the things you dislike.
What should I do if I still have questions?
Please ask any questions about the rules or the sign-up process in comments to this post, and I'll answer them as soon as possible. I'll be making another post later explaining the format for submitting your stories, so please hold off on specific questions about that for now.
HOW TO SIGN UP
Leave a comment with the following information, or email it to penknifewrites @ aol.com.
Please note that if you request "character A/character B," you're requesting a romantic or sexual pairing, so if you want a friendship story or a story about a (non-incestuous) family relationship, please request "character A and character B" instead.
Also, if you say you will write "any," that means any, from common pairings to off-the-wall rarepairs. If you offer to write "Will/any," you may be assigned Will/Elizabeth or Will/Cotton. If you offer to write "any slash," you may be assigned Jack/James or Ragetti/Governor Swann. Please do not offer to write "any character" or "any pairing" unless you will really be happy with any possible assignment.
Author name:
LJ name:
Email address:
Character/pairing request 1:
Specific request:
Character/pairing request 2:
Specific request:
Character/pairing request 3:
Specific request:
At least three characters or pairings you are willing to write about:
Anything you will not write:
To sign up, you'll make three requests for a character or pairing (or threesome) and a specific request or scenario. You'll also list at least three characters and/or pairings you are willing to write, as well as anything you particularly don't want to write. You'll be matched with a person who requested at least one of the characters or pairings you offered.
Your story needs to include one of the characters or pairings your recipient requested. Fulfilling the specific request is optional but highly encouraged, and your story shouldn't contain anything your recipient asked you not to include. Stories must be at least 1000 words.
I'll be posting stories through the month of December, so please turn in your story on time! If you're going to be late or need to drop out, let me know as soon as possible.
Last date to sign up: August 31
Assignments mailed out: September 5 (or earlier)
Stories are due: November 15
Posting begins: December 1
FAQ
Are there any other rules I should know about?
Please don't comment negatively in public about the request you are assigned or the story you receive. If it doesn't match what you offered or requested, contact me and I will sort it out. Otherwise, please write the best story you can and thank your author even if the story you receive is not to your taste.
Also, please do not bash characters or pairings in your request. It's okay to specify characters or pairings you don't want in your story; "No Elizabeth/Gibbs, please," is fine. "Spare me the Elizabeth/Gibbs, yuck" is not. Keep in mind that you may be matched with an author who also writes and enjoys the things you dislike.
What should I do if I still have questions?
Please ask any questions about the rules or the sign-up process in comments to this post, and I'll answer them as soon as possible. I'll be making another post later explaining the format for submitting your stories, so please hold off on specific questions about that for now.
HOW TO SIGN UP
Leave a comment with the following information, or email it to penknifewrites @ aol.com.
Please note that if you request "character A/character B," you're requesting a romantic or sexual pairing, so if you want a friendship story or a story about a (non-incestuous) family relationship, please request "character A and character B" instead.
Also, if you say you will write "any," that means any, from common pairings to off-the-wall rarepairs. If you offer to write "Will/any," you may be assigned Will/Elizabeth or Will/Cotton. If you offer to write "any slash," you may be assigned Jack/James or Ragetti/Governor Swann. Please do not offer to write "any character" or "any pairing" unless you will really be happy with any possible assignment.
Author name:
LJ name:
Email address:
Character/pairing request 1:
Specific request:
Character/pairing request 2:
Specific request:
Character/pairing request 3:
Specific request:
At least three characters or pairings you are willing to write about:
Anything you will not write: