Harry/Draco Writing Support

Choosing Your Thing

This fest will be really nice and lenient about what counts under the theme. Each day when the theme post goes up, I’ll let you know what it includes, but if the subject is somewhere in the fic (including just mentioned) it’ll be counted. E.g. If one theme happened to be Dumbledore, he doesn’t need to appear in the fic for it to count. As long as he’s mentioned, it’s all good.

I’ll sometimes add helpful links, but I’m not going to add ao3 links (except to comms). Try not to go for the most recently dated stuff, although if it catches your eye then don't let me stop you. We want to spread the love, but not solely to the lucky, creative people who’ve posted recently.

If you think I’ve missed out a particularly relevant comm/link, drop me a message and I’ll add it to the post.

Commenting On Your Thing

This is a low stress, full fun event. Don’t feel you need to write 500 words of constructive analytical text. Your comment only needs to be 5 words or over. 5 Words!

Remember it has to be new as well.  You can’t use a comment you posted weeks ago, or even yesterday, although all those amazing people probably appreciate them loads.

Submitting Your Comments

This time around, I’m going to say you’re allowed to submit a maximum of 10 comments per theme. Absolutely feel free to go crazier than that around the fandom (in fact, it’s encouraged. For admin purposes, as this is the first time the event is running, I just don’t want to get ahead of myself.)

All I ask is that you please do not edit comments once they’re up (unless you’ve got typos or something.) In other words, please do not add extra links to comments you’ve already submitted, as they may have already been counted and this mod is only human -- I’m worried some points will get lost somewhere!

What about those leaderboards you mentioned in the previous post?

Oh, those. Unless you’re really competitive like me, try not to worry about those. I won’t bore you with the details of how I’m scoring it until after the event is over (in case you want to make sure I got your score right). Which leads me to one final point:

We absolutely don’t want to limit your participation (other than the 10 comment submission), so you’re absolutely welcome to go back to themes you’ve missed/skipped and comment for them. You can still submit to previous days until the event is over. This won’t score you as much, but I’m really hoping smashing the leaderboards isn’t your main objective anyway.

That’s it. That’s all you’ve got to do. I hope you all have fun. Maybe you’ll find a new author, and you end up sifting obsessively through every word they’ve ever written. Maybe you’ll spot an artist you’ve never seen before, and all you can do is sit and stare because they’re so amazing.

My inbox is always open, and you may ask questions below as well.  I’ll try and get back to any questions left ASAP.

Good Luck! :D

So, here in the UK the Easter holidays are coming up, I believe that’s known as Spring Break to some of you too. As I’m now at uni, I’m running on an academic year timetable. With my time off, I’d like to organise an event and do something useful. :D

What is it?
   It’s what it says on the tin! We’re going to spread the love around our fandom. Every day I’ll post a theme. This could range from a rating, a fest that’s posting or has posted, a trope, a setting, a character. It could be anything! And all you have to do is read/view/listen to something and comment! Think of all the happy fandomers who’ll be motivated and want to create more!

How does it work?
  So, every day a post will go up with the theme. As a comment to that post, you’ll be asked to leave a link to your comment/s for the day. I’ll be keeping a tally of what’s going on and you'll be awarded points -- a leaderboard will be posted with the top love-spreaders!

Where is it?
  It’s here on hd_writers. Another poll has gone out over on merlin_writers for a similar BBC Merlin event if anyone is interested over there too!

What can we comment on?
  Anything! The only limit is it has to be Harry Potter -- so it's not even limited to a pairing if you want to read something else! It can be fic, art, podfic. The sky’s the limit.

I understand most of you won’t have time off, but it’s a no stress, all fun event. You don’t have to read a 10,000 word fic for your comment to count, in fact there’s no word limit either way. As long as it fits the theme. It could even be something you’ve previously read/seen/heard and thought ‘I should really leave this person some love’ but didn’t have time. As long as the comment is new, it still counts.

What do I have to do?
  There’s no need to sign-up, taking part is your sign-up. Please fill out the little diddy poll below so I know if anyone’s interested or not, and when people would like it to be held. That’s all. Tick two little boxes and go bonkers! Any questions are welcome too :)