#prompting guidelines

[primeemeraldheiress]

👉👈 uh 56. For DamiJay?? No pressure.

Hi! I’m sorry, but I don’t write this pairing. I’m not a fan of it. I have a set of Prompting Guidelines if you’d care to take a look. Please feel free to send me a different prompt with a different pairing.

[nctwritewrite-blog]

PROMPTING GUIDELINES

Hello everyone! We hope you’re as excited for the start of prompting season as we are!

Prompting is the perfect platform for us in the fandom to be creative. If you have lots of ideas in your head about different situations you can see your favourite members in, now is the perfect time to share them. Who knows, maybe several of your prompts will get claimed, and you’ll have several dream fics to read!

Prompting officially starts on 5th May, 2017 at midnight KST, and will carry on until 15th May, 2017 at noon KST. You can check what time that is in your timezone here. We will be posting a link to the prompting form where you can submit your prompts on the day of prompting itself.

Here are some guidelines to familiarise yourself with before the start of prompting.

(Warning, long post ahead! Guidelines below the cut.)

Here is an example of what the prompting form will look like:

THE PROMPT: They say it takes a while to find your soulmate. For Jaehyun and Winwin, it takes a broken nose, a band break up, and too many years spent skirting around each other while living in a hole in the wall apartment in Beijing with peeling paint and draughty evenings before they realise the only thing they’ve been looking for the whole time is each other. RATING: NC-17 SQUICKS: Character death, homophobia, rape, sad endings :c BONUS♡: Winwin teaching Jaehyun how to speak Mandarin, Jaehyun in glasses, appearances by Winwin’s family!

Here are some general rules and guidelines:

1. While this is a general fic fest, requiring no fixed endgame pairing or au, it is still an NCT fic fest, and your prompt must be centred on at least one NCT/SM Rookies member. For example, we will accept a prompt based on a story with Johnny/Sehun from EXO as the main pairing, but not a prompt based on a story with Minho from SHINee/Suho from EXO as the main pairing, featuring Johnny as a side character. At least one NCT/SMR member must be the main character of your prompt.

2. Avoid giving prompts that are overly specific or completely vague. Here are some examples of good and bad prompts:

Good prompt #1:

When you graduate high school, there are some things you never want to see again: that ugly school tie you wore every day, the Math test you bombed after staying up all night to play video games... and the crush whom you accidentally spilt a full cup of cranberry vodka on at Yuta's anti-prom party. The universe seems not to be on Johnny's side, though, 'cause when he opens his email to see who his college roommate will be, it turns out to be none other than that very same high school crush, Ten.

Good prompt #2:

Member A (can be anyone the author sees fit) brings Taeyong to Yuta's dating agency. Yuta arranges various dates for Taeyong, but they all fail, because the perfect person for Taeyong is none other than Yuta himself.

Bad prompt #1:

Rival basketball players Hansol and Kun. (Too vague! What else is supposed to happen?)

Bad prompt #2:

Jaehyun is a detective with the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency and in charge of the ongoing investigation of a series of high-profile robberies in Seoul. The robber, who identifies himself only as Neo, donates the money he steals anonymously to organisations that need it. Somehow, he manages to evaded the police every single time. One day during a stakeout, Jaehyun discovers that the robber is Doyoung, who works in a new bakery that opened in Jaehyun's neighbourhood. Doyoung is stealing money from the rich and corrupt and redistributing it to the poor because him and his older brother were orphans who were treated very badly as children, and he wants the less fortunate to live better lives. Doyoung is a student trying to get into law school, afterwhich he promises Jaehyun that he will stop stealing and help people in a good way. Jaehyun convinces him to stop stealing straight away, Neo goes off the radar and the police close the case.

(Whoa, this is way too specific! You've dictated the entire flow of the story, and the writer's hands will be tied.)

3. Make sure to be very detailed about the stuff you don’t want to see, so the writer who claims your prompt and writes a fic based on it knows for sure what not to include when writing.

4. When prompting, please use the members' stage names [e.g. Doyoung/Jaehyun as opposed to Dongyoung/Yoonoh] so the mods can organise the prompts easily! If you feel the need to specify that writers should use the members' real names, make a note of it at the end of your prompt.

5. Prompts containing suggestions of rape, non-consensual behaviour or the sexualisation of minors will not be included.

If you have any further questions or clarifications, feel free to send us an ask here on tumblr, DM us at @nctwritewrite on twitter or shoot us an email at [email protected]

That's all! Thanks for reading this far.

We hope you submit lots and lots of prompts!

[rockabye-fest-blog]

Round 1: Special Round Prompting Guidelines

Special round notes:

This special round is being held with a secondary theme aside from kidfics: the holidays!

Anything from domestic fluff, to gift-giving, to family vacation shenanigans are welcome, as long as the prompt satisfies the two requirements of the round, being:

A kidfic (with child/ren being central to the plot of the fic; and

Holiday season-themed.

Complete guidelines for prompting for Rock a Bye:

The prompting form will go live on August 15, 2019, at 9 AM KST.

‘Children’ in this fest are described as characters who are no older than 13 years of age.

All prompts must have at least one member of EXO involved, either as an adult or a child character. Prompts must involve children, or have its central theme be about children.

Only one prompt may be submitted per form. Forms with multiple prompts may be deleted during the purging.

Prompts that involve the children growing up into adulthood are allowed, but note that the main part of the story must be the children.

Numnum: things that you want to see written in the fic, listed in order of importance. (Greatly appreciated if ranked as well! e.g., 1. breakfast in bed, 2. fluffy fun times).

Blech: things that you do not want to see written in the fic, and would like to request the author to avoid writing as much as possible.

Gift tag: A note/letter you would like to tell your writer, when your prompt gets claimed. (Only your writer will see this, so write as much as you want!)

Prompts will be purged once a day. Repeated prompts, incomplete prompts, and inappropriate prompts will be removed from the masterlist. Purging will be done at 10 PM KST.

Note to prompters:

Prompters must submit only one prompt per Form. If you want to send several prompts, you may do so by filling up different forms. Please do not submit several prompts in a single form!

Be as specific as you can. Give the writer as much detail as you can in the prompts - especially those that are Numnum (things you agree to) and those that are Blech (things you would not like to see in the fic).

Be available in case the mods of the fest contact you! We will contact you in place of the writer should they have any questions about your prompt.

Please understand that prompts may get dropped, or may remain unclaimed through the duration of the fest. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with your prompt; maybe a writer will pick it up later!

You may choose to be revealed during the reveals or you may choose to remain anonymous. Please let the mods know!

Prompters with claimed prompts may request for updates on how their prompts’ stories are going after the first check-in. We’ll do our best to keep you all updated!

Contact Us

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[rockabye-fest-blog]

Prompting Guidelines

Prompting Form | Prompts Archive

Schedule:

Prompting: February 15 to March 10 Claiming: March 12 to April 30 First check-in: April 30 Second check-in: May 20 Posting: June 12 Reveals: June 25

Complete guidelines for prompting for Rock a Bye:

The prompting form will go live on February 15, 2019, at 9 AM KST.

‘Children’ in this fest are described as characters who are no older than 13 years of age.

All prompts must have at least one member of EXO involved, either as an adult or a child character. Prompts must involve children, or have its central theme be about children. 

Only one prompt may be submitted per form. Forms with multiple prompts may be deleted during the purging.

Prompts that involve the children growing up into adulthood are allowed, but note that the main part of the story must be the children.

Numnum: things that you want to see written in the fic, listed in order of importance. (Greatly appreciated if ranked as well! e.g., 1. breakfast in bed, 2. fluffy fun times).

Blech: things that you do not want to see written in the fic, and would like to request the author to avoid writing as much as possible.

Playground: A note/letter you would like to tell your writer, when your prompt gets claimed. (Only your writer will see this, so write as much as you want!)

Prompts will be purged once a day. Repeated prompts, incomplete prompts, and inappropriate prompts will be removed from the masterlist. Purging will be done at 10 PM KST.

Categories:

Dawn: A time of hope. Prompts that involve the adult character acquiring a child (through adoption, birth, or our favorite Accidental Baby Acquisition, for example) fall into this category.

Noon: The middle ground. Prompts that feature children as the main characters and/or point-of-view characters fall into this category. 

Dusk: A time of rest. Prompts with families that have existing children fall in this category. Domestic and family fluff, established relationships, among others, are within this category as well.

Midnight: Moments of darkness. Dark or possible trigger warning prompts will be put under this category. (NOTE: The mods reserve the right to purge prompts that are inappropriate to the fest and that go against the welfare of children. This fest does not tolerate incest, rape, and other such behavior towards children.)

Note to prompters:

Prompters must submit only one prompt per Form. If you want to send several prompts, you may do so by filling up different forms. Please do not submit several prompts in a single form!

Be as specific as you can. Give the writer as much detail as you can in the prompts - especially those that are Numnum (things you agree to) and those that are Blech (things you would not like to see in the fic).

Be available in case the mods of the fest contact you! We will contact you in place of the writer should they have any questions about your prompt.

Please understand that prompts may get dropped, or may remain unclaimed through the duration of the fest. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with your prompt; maybe a writer will pick it up later!

You may choose to be revealed during the reveals or you may choose to remain anonymous. Please let the mods know!

Prompters with claimed prompts may request for updates on how their prompts’ stories are going after the first check-in. We’ll do our best to keep you all updated!

Contact Us

Twitter | Email: [email protected] | CuriousCat

[worryinglyinnocent]

Hello all, this feels a bit odd but I've had a few prompts recently and I thought I'd put my prompting guidelines up here so that everyone is happy and no-one is disappointed.

So, this Worryingly's Guide to Prompting.

You're free to prompt, but please remember:

I cannot guarantee when your prompt will be written, especially if I don't have a promptathon on at the time. It might be straight away, it might not be for three months. I have several WIPs and it's no secret that my updating is sporadic at best. I have a full time job in a stressful environment (I work in customer service in the information security industry), so writing is my relaxation and sometimes I am too wound up to write.

I take smut prompts but please keep them tame. I am not comfortable writing BDSM.

I prefer to stick with my main pairings, these being rumbelle, gremma, swanfire and red cricket. This isn't to say I won't write things that pair these characters with others, but that's my comfort zone. (Exception being rumbelle, who are my OTP and I won't split them up.)

Swan Queen and Captain Swan are my notps and I won't write them romantically.

That's it I think. Thanks for reading. :-)