Signups for Time Travel Alphabet Soup
Could this really be our 19th Alphabet Soup? Why, yes! We'll be having another SG-1 Gen Fic Day in early March, and you're all invited to participate in the squee.
The theme of this Soup is time travel. This includes episode tags or missing scenes for any episode which features time travel, an original time-traveling plot of your own, or a crossover with another fandom that features time travel. Your story may be set during the show, pre-series, post-series, onworld or offworld. Anything goes, as long as it's gen, related to SG-1, and has something to do with time travel.
This is how it works: the letters of the alphabet are available on a first come, first served basis. Comment and claim a letter - one letter per author only. I'll strike them out as they're claimed, but as long as you made your request first, the letter is yours. By making a claim, you are committing yourself to writing at least 100 words of gen fic by March 2nd. The letters below include suggested keywords, but they are only there to serve as inspiration and nobody needs to actually use them.
On March 2nd, comment with your fic in the SG-1 Gen Fic Day post, using the title as the subject of your comment (R is for Ra, W is for Watch, M is for Marty McFly, or whatever). Send me a copy by e-mail as well. When all the letters have been submitted, I'll collate all the ficlets in alphabetical order and post them together as a complete anthology. The anthology on LJ is usually abridged due to posting contraints, with links to the remaining stories at the authors' individual journals; the DW version is complete and unabridged.
For more detailed instructions of the posting process, click here. Even if you've cooked Soup before, please double-check that there haven't been minor changes in the instructions since the last time you participated.
There are only four rules: your fic must be at least 100 words, although there is no maximum limit; it must relate to time travel, whether canonical or original; the fic must be canon compliant, although it does not have to reference canon specifically and you may use the time travel reset button to make it canon; and it should be gen. This is part of SG-1 Gen Fic Day, after all. :) Sorry, Sam/Jack and Daniel/Vala fans, but no ship, even if it's canon in Moebius and Unending. An author is welcome to mention canon "real timeline" relationships - for example, Ba'al/Qetesh is canonical in both the regular timeline and that of Continuum. But no romance, please. If in doubt, feel free to ask.
Please spread the word - I'm always delighted to have new authors join us (just as I'm ecstatic when loyal regulars join us for yet another round.) And if you're a newcomer signing up, make sure to mention it so I can welcome you properly. :)
All letters have now been claimed! BUT if you are still interested in participating, there is always need for last-minute fills. Write at least 100 words of gen, time-travel themed fic, and post it on Gen Fic Day - we can always retroactively match it to a missing letter.
A - alternate, always, age, absolutes, Ancient, anachronism
B - butterfly effect, black hole, back to the future, beyond
C - Continuum, countdown, causality, cryostasis, Cassie, clock, close enough, chronology
D - DeLorean, dinosaurs, dilation, doubles
E - eternal, entropy, Euclidean space, event
F - Fifth, future, function, fluid, fish
G - grandfather paradox, George Pal, go, gravitational field, golf
H - hippies, H.G. Wells, Hammond, home, heals all wounds, hyperspace
I - intervention, incentive, interval
J - journey, joy, Jaffa revenge thing, juggling
K - Klein bottle, key, Kree, kinship
L - looking glass, lost, loop, language
M - moebius strip, mad scientist, manipulate, meetings, missed opportunity, Minkowski space
N - never, naysaying, nighfall, NASA
O - oops, opportunity, Osiris, old, obscurity
P - past, present, paradox, perpendicular, phase, physics
Q - Qetesh, quantum mechanics, quest
R - reflection, relativity, robots, ripples, revision, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riemannian geometry
S - solar flare, spacetime, steadfast, shiny, speed of light, synchronize, simultaneity
T - temporal, 2010, time loop, timeline, twists, time flies,
U - Unending, unintended, unbearable, ultimate
V - verify, validate, Vala, velvet, value
W - window, watch, wave, wormhole
X - xenocide, xenagogue
Y - yielding, yo-yo, yearning, years
Z - zenith, zen, zero, zone
The theme of this Soup is time travel. This includes episode tags or missing scenes for any episode which features time travel, an original time-traveling plot of your own, or a crossover with another fandom that features time travel. Your story may be set during the show, pre-series, post-series, onworld or offworld. Anything goes, as long as it's gen, related to SG-1, and has something to do with time travel.
This is how it works: the letters of the alphabet are available on a first come, first served basis. Comment and claim a letter - one letter per author only. I'll strike them out as they're claimed, but as long as you made your request first, the letter is yours. By making a claim, you are committing yourself to writing at least 100 words of gen fic by March 2nd. The letters below include suggested keywords, but they are only there to serve as inspiration and nobody needs to actually use them.
On March 2nd, comment with your fic in the SG-1 Gen Fic Day post, using the title as the subject of your comment (R is for Ra, W is for Watch, M is for Marty McFly, or whatever). Send me a copy by e-mail as well. When all the letters have been submitted, I'll collate all the ficlets in alphabetical order and post them together as a complete anthology. The anthology on LJ is usually abridged due to posting contraints, with links to the remaining stories at the authors' individual journals; the DW version is complete and unabridged.
For more detailed instructions of the posting process, click here. Even if you've cooked Soup before, please double-check that there haven't been minor changes in the instructions since the last time you participated.
There are only four rules: your fic must be at least 100 words, although there is no maximum limit; it must relate to time travel, whether canonical or original; the fic must be canon compliant, although it does not have to reference canon specifically and you may use the time travel reset button to make it canon; and it should be gen. This is part of SG-1 Gen Fic Day, after all. :) Sorry, Sam/Jack and Daniel/Vala fans, but no ship, even if it's canon in Moebius and Unending. An author is welcome to mention canon "real timeline" relationships - for example, Ba'al/Qetesh is canonical in both the regular timeline and that of Continuum. But no romance, please. If in doubt, feel free to ask.
Please spread the word - I'm always delighted to have new authors join us (just as I'm ecstatic when loyal regulars join us for yet another round.) And if you're a newcomer signing up, make sure to mention it so I can welcome you properly. :)
All letters have now been claimed! BUT if you are still interested in participating, there is always need for last-minute fills. Write at least 100 words of gen, time-travel themed fic, and post it on Gen Fic Day - we can always retroactively match it to a missing letter.
A - alternate, always, age, absolutes, Ancient, anachronism
B - butterfly effect, black hole, back to the future, beyond
C - Continuum, countdown, causality, cryostasis, Cassie, clock, close enough, chronology
D - DeLorean, dinosaurs, dilation, doubles
E - eternal, entropy, Euclidean space, event
F - Fifth, future, function, fluid, fish
G - grandfather paradox, George Pal, go, gravitational field, golf
H - hippies, H.G. Wells, Hammond, home, heals all wounds, hyperspace
I - intervention, incentive, interval
J - journey, joy, Jaffa revenge thing, juggling
K - Klein bottle, key, Kree, kinship
L - looking glass, lost, loop, language
M - moebius strip, mad scientist, manipulate, meetings, missed opportunity, Minkowski space
N - never, naysaying, nighfall, NASA
O - oops, opportunity, Osiris, old, obscurity
P - past, present, paradox, perpendicular, phase, physics
Q - Qetesh, quantum mechanics, quest
R - reflection, relativity, robots, ripples, revision, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riemannian geometry
S - solar flare, spacetime, steadfast, shiny, speed of light, synchronize, simultaneity
T - temporal, 2010, time loop, timeline, twists, time flies,
U - Unending, unintended, unbearable, ultimate
V - verify, validate, Vala, velvet, value
W - window, watch, wave, wormhole
X - xenocide, xenagogue
Y - yielding, yo-yo, yearning, years
Z - zenith, zen, zero, zone