myriad words...

Dai stiho, cousins.

Subsequent to the recent changes around here, I am going to move myriadwords over to the existing Dreamwidth mirror. I am going to delete my own livejournal and don't want to leave the community unattended. I know we're not very active any more, but I would like to back us up. Consequently, a little over a week from now, on Monday 24 April, I am going to import myriadwords to dreamwidth and then delete this community. If you do not want your content to be imported, I encourage you to delete it before then (or, ideally, move it over to the AO3 or otherwise keep it available).

I know that this will be a pain for anyone who has done any bookmarking of this community and I'm sorry about that. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or requests about this move.

Hi all! Signups for the second Young Wizards Christmas in July are about to start!

Signups are from 1-15 May, with stories to go out around 16 May. So you have plenty of time to sign up!

This year we're trying something new: there's now a section where you can make a wish list of things you want me to consider when allocating you an assignment. If you have signed up last year, and are familiar with how signups work, scroll down to the "Offers" section, where I explain how that will work.

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If you need an invite to AO3 drop me a comment, or private message me either here on LJ or on tumblr as crankywhitemage and I'll do my best to set you up. Other than that, feel free to ask questions, poke around and if you're interested, sign up!

Also! If anyone would like to beta, feel free to offer in the comments :)

The deadline for assigned stories has passed! There's some tidying up of signups still going on but thus far everyone has either submitted a story or has spoken to me about a short extension. This is great!

However, there are still two and a half days left before the archive is revealed and you might find yourself eyeing off one of these prompts and thinking "I would really like to write one ... but I don't know how to upload it to the archive". If this is the only thing stopping you from writing the YW fic of your dreams ... well, do I have the tutorial for you!

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Hi guys!

We are eight days out from the finalising of the Young Wizards - Christmas in July fic exchange. Given that we are so close to the end, and there are so many good prompts I've done a spreadsheet with all of the prompts, so if you want to write a second story (or a first, if you aren't participating!) you can write one and upload it to the collection (yw_christmasjuly) and it will be revealed at the same time as the rest. For ease of reading, every alternate signup has been greyed out; there's no real significance other than "oh god look at all those lines of words".

If you need help uploading to the collection, or how to gift it to someone, let me know, otherwise I look forward to seeing all the completed stories.

This is the last reminder for the Christmas in July gift exchange! If you want to sign up, you have until 5am EST on Wednesday 15 May. If you can't sign up until a little later drop me a private message or email me at nights.mistress[at]gmail otherwise, this is your last chance!

Hi guys! Just a friendly reminder that the Christmas in July fic exchange will be closing in a few days, so if you're interested in participating, don't forget to sign up!

So, given the amount of interest I've gotten both over here and on my tumblr, we're doing this exchange! Go team fandom!

Anyway, the challenge is open early and it is over here at AO3.  The window for signups does not change, so you have until 15 May to make up your mind about who or what you want to ask for or write about.  As I understand not everyone is familiar with AO3, beneath the cut is a pictorial representation of how to do it. It's pretty picture heavy, so heads up.

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If you need an invite to AO3 drop me a comment, or private message me either here on LJ or on tumblr as crankywhitemage and I'll do my best to set you up. Other than that, feel free to ask questions, poke around and if you're interested, sign up!

Also! If anyone would like to beta, feel free to offer in the comments :)

Hi guys!

I'm just feeling out at this stage whether anyone would be interested in participating in an anonymous fic exchange for Young Wizards/Feline Wizards? At this stage, I'm leaning towards the following:

1. It takes place on AO3 - if you don't have an account there I can generate codes for you.


2. Signups would be the first two weeks of May, with assignments to go out 18 May, and 30 June are when the stories are due.


3. Stories are written anonymously, with the authors to be revealed on 8 July.


4. Archive gets revealed during the first week of July (the exact date depends on when everyone has a story, but no later than 5 July).


5. The matching process will be that you nominate 2-6 characters you will write for, and 1-4 characters you'd like a story about, along with a prompt. The prompt is a guide and is entirely optional (though incredibly helpful!), while the characters must appear in the story.


6. Then in October you all sign up for Yuletide -- I mean.   YOU SHOULD ALL SIGN UP FOR YULETIDE...

If you're on tumblr, you've heard all this before and please don't comment again if you commented already, but if you're interested, I'd like to hear from you! I'm hoping for about ten people before I'll set up the exchange, and thus far we have six tentatives.  I am super keen to run this exchange, because while I've run multifandom secret santas in the past, I sure haven't done a Young Wizards one. It'll be great!

So yes! If you are interested, or have any questions, feel free to comment!  I'm happy to answer any questions that you have.

Avengers / Young Wizards crossover fanfic, set after A Wizard of Mars (2010) and a week after the Avengers movie (2012). No real spoilers, but it helps if you've seen the movie and know a little about Marvel Comics continuity.

Another Path

For those not in the know, Yuletide is an annual small fandom fanfic exchange. Young Wizards has been a staple for a long time, because while our fandom is awesome, we are also a teeny tiny one.

This year, Young Wizards has been astonishingly prolific, with there being sixteen (16!!) stories in the universe.

For Cats of Grand Central, we have one story over here.

For Young Wizards we have fourteen over here in the main collection, and one in the Madness collection.

If you're looking for something a little different, there are also two stories for Tale of the Five here! ONE DAY WE WILL GET THE DOOR INTO STARLIGHT...