An update, and a poll!

[swingandswirl]

... oh jeez, is it May already? /puts head on desk/ I'm so sorry, everyone. I could have sworn it was February last week

Comments

[anonymous]

Lilacs_Roses here
Boy, I probably could have stayed and written my fic afterall lol :)
I vote for posting everything now and posting others as they come in.

[swingandswirl]

Hee, yes you could have!

(Any chance you are still willing to participate, btw? The door's always open!)

That seems to be the consensus, yeah. First fic will be going up tomorrow!

[damerel]

*sneaking in behind Tam to bat eyelashes winningly at lilacs_roses* What a good idea!

[lilacs_roses]

Well.. if the door's 'always open'... /laugh.

Main computer is still having connectivity issues and the dinosaur just can't handle any type of surfing -- having problems with accessing email as it is -- and only has Wordpad and everything I have is in Word.

Given all that... if the 'door is always open', I might try and put something together, but only to be posted as a solo and not part of the challenge; people have waited long enough as it is :D

[emmademarais]

I vote for A with the caveat that it's a fic every X number of days and not all at once so people have time to read each one before the next comes out.

And then perhaps it won't be such a gap between the 'in nows' and the 'coming soons'.

Thanks so much for all your hard work running this! ♥

[swingandswirl]

Ooh. That is a brilliant idea. And saves me from doing ALL THE CODING at once.

Maybe fic could come out Mondays and Thursdays? Or just Mondays, since IDK if Thurs fic get picked up by the newsletter...

♥ back!

[damerel]

LMK if you need a hand with coding, won't you? And thanks again!

[swingandswirl]

Ooh, I just might. Coding, we hates it, precious!

And you're very welcome!

[laura_trekkie]

I agree with emmademarais, release what you already have but in a trickle, rather than a flood. That way, everyone gets a chance to read each fic and give it the proper appreciation, plus it might mean less of a gap. And who knows, maybe some new fic to read will add some inspiration to the authors and help them past any RL roadblocks, especially if one of the fics posted is their gift.

Laura.

[emmademarais]

It looks like you're back! Yay! I was worried.

[laura_trekkie]

Yay, I live!!!!! You need worry no more \o/.

It was just as damerel said - new anti-spam measures which somehow suspended my LJ, but it's all back to normal now. Phew.

Laura

[lilacs_roses]

Ditto for the "YAY", I was hoping you hadn't gone anywhere /huggs /huggs /huggs

[jestana]

I agree with emmademarais and laura_trekkie. Post what people have sent in, but once every few days or so.

[emmademarais]

Meep! What happened to Laura?

[jestana]

Laura_trekkie here. I have no idea what happened to me!

I tried to comment on a fic elsewhere on LJ only to be informed that I am unable to post comments as my journal has been suspended! No idea why and no email from LJ, so I've sent them an email to ask what the hell and am now awaiting a reply.

Stupid LJ :(

Laura

I thought you'd gone!

[damerel]

You probably know this by now, but apparently LJ has managed to suspend a whole load of journals while implementing anti-spam measures. *headdesk* They are restoring them, so hopefully you will be back soon and recovering from such a nasty shock!

[damerel]

I too am on board with starting to release them now, with some delay between so that people can read and comment.

Thanks again for running this. ♥

[swingandswirl]

Yup, I think that's what I'm gonna do. Only problem is deciding which of all the pretties I've received so far will go up first!

You're welcome, although I feel kinda bad accepting thanks when my primary motivation was basically wanting all the fic. :D

[damerel]

Sounds like a perfectly reasonable motivation to me. :-)

[swingandswirl]

Hee! Especially when Colby and Ian feature so heavily in them, yes.

(OMG, D, I can't wait for all the fic to go up! No more glumness, guaranteed.)