Writers: Sign-Ups open from the 14th until the 24th of JUNE
Artists/Beta Readers: Sign-Ups open from the 14th of June until the 15th of JULY
Entries must be gcest or have the gcest as a main focus.
It's possible to sign up both as a writer and artist, but you can't claim your own work.
All of this is to make an advent-calendar for the documentary, so ideally we start publishing the 11th of August (but it’s not a hard deadline, the most important thing is to have fun)
AI is not allowed (either generative or for editing). If you need grammar/spelling checks there’s plenty of people that signed up as a Beta Reader (and it’s so much more fun).
The minimum fic length is 2500 words, there's not a maximum word count.
You’ll have 7 weeks in total, with the artist pair up in the middle of July. By the artist's claim you should have at least half fic written (or the equivalent), all the Tags and Warning, and a little summary.
We’ll follow the Kinktomato rule “Your Kink Is Not My Kink (And That's OK)". You have no content restriction, the only thing you need to do is to disclose all the Tags and Warnings for the claiming process, (to make it very clear for the artist and the beta-reader if they want to work on your story).
For publication you can choose how to warn your readers or use the "Creator choose to not use archive warning" (and not disclose all the tags).
You can work with your usual Beta reader, put your fic up for one to claim it anonymously or not work with one at all. If you work with your usual Beta let them join by signing up in the form.
"How long will we have to work on this after everyone is paired?"
For the writing process you'll have in total 7 weeks, the artist will work in 3 weeks.
There will be two artist claims, one at the end of JUNE and one at the end of JULY.
After the claiming process you’ll talk with your artist and exchange info and your draft, you’ll talk about the story and the important bits of the fic (if you haven’t been able to flash it all out yet).
You’re responsible for keeping each other informed on your draft, but there will be two check-ins to inform me of how the story is going, and one check-in for the artist (to allow me to organize the publication schedule).
I’m still working on the Calendar but I’ll soon publish it and it will make everything so much clearer.