Contact-a-Mod

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Hello all,

I hope everyone had a fantastic day.

We're introducing a new feature here to allow you to contact the Mods. It's difficult with having multiple mods to receive questions and answer them in a timely manor because we all do mod posts. So what we've done is created another, shadow mod.

Any comments on posts made by this shadow mod will be forwarded to all of us, so we can answer things more quickly.

We're also going to try to start doing mod posts with this user account as well, and post a link to this post on the sidebar so you can contact us easily.

It's a new system, so there's bound to be some bumps with it, but hopefully it will make things easier in the long run.

~Your tamingmods!
(calypso)

Comments

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a plan!!

[nondenomifan.livejournal.com]

I wish I was as strmat (sorry, family joke) as you gals are!

Question

[thegabbster.livejournal.com]

As this is my first try, before I do *try* I want to ask a few questions.

There was a post saying this weeks prompt is "Temptation", does that mean we need to write a fanfic based on that word and our interpretation of it with any fandom and character(s)/couple(s)? They are due on Sat by midnight of what time zone exactly?

Re: Question

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

You are free to write from any fandom you like and with any characters you like. You can also enter original stories if you wish. The story has to be at least 500 words but there's no maximum word limit. The only requirement is that you use the prompt in some way in your story.

The stories need to be posted by midnight on Saturday according to any time zone you are in. The main thing is that you need to have the story timestamped on Saturday.

I hope this helped. Please feel free to ask if there are any other questions.


-piksa-

[dedra.livejournal.com]

I wanted to let you (the mods) know that I won't be posting any longer and am leaving the comm.

This is no reflection on any member or mod. My life has changed (quite a bit, actually) and I don't have the time to spend writing as much as I used to--or even spending any amount of time online. I have enjoyed the community and the whole ideal behind it, but when I stare at a blank screen and it is harder to write than it is not to, it's time to bow out gracefully.

Thank you all for the gorgeous award from last week. It has been a memorable and wonderful two years, but I need to move on. I've learned a lot from reading and writing here and will always recommend it. You've all done a fantastic job modding the community--it certainly isn't easy keeping track of all of the awards and such and you've done great with all of it.

Maybe sometime down the line I'll come back. Until then, good night, God Bless, and good luck.

Dede :D

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Oh sweetie, you'll be missed!! *hugs hard*

I understand why though; utterly and completely. Two years is a hell of a mark to leave on, and I'm so happy you were here for those two years with me.

Any of the prompts ever tickles your fancy, you're free to post in for that week. You're always welcome here.

And you're not scooting off my f-list that easy! LOL You better not be; I can be okay with letting go of a Taming member, but I'm not cool with letting go of an incredible friend. ^_^

*hugs again*

~Nebula

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Hi, I have a few questions and I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask them, but it looks like the best option...

1. Does 'timestamp' just mean the time and date on the post? I.e., if I post at the correct time in my timezone and the post shows that then that's all I have to do? There's no additional verification process?

2. Is it okay to vary fandoms (and original) from week to week? You don't have to stick to just one?

3. Do fics/stories have to be posted to the community, or can they be posted in my own journal and linked to from a post in the community?

I also just want to say that I love the idea of this community. I think that the complicated and unique prompts are much more interesting than in other communities I've seen. I'm starting a masters degree in the last week of September, and I have to see what the workload is going to be like, but provided it isn't horrendous (and I'm not expecting it to be) I'd very much like to join and participate in your community. I used to write a lot and I've been struggling for the last few months. Maybe motivation like this is exactly what I need.

[aleathiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a fourth question:

I think I'm right that you say a chapter of something longer is acceptable? How does that work in terms of your voting - particularly in terms of the plot section? Obviously characters and grammar are unaffected by something only being a section of a longer whole, but one chapter might not have anything resembling a cohesive plot - especially if it's only a part of a chapter.

[dreamy-idealist.livejournal.com]

Hello community! I've been watching you for a while, and this week's topic tells me to join!

So I have a few questions first.

1. Do I have to introduce myself somewhere? Or can I just pop my head in and say 'Hi! I'm new!' in my first entry?

2. I read the minimum word count is 500 words. I write drabbles, and double drabbles among other things, so is it okay if I post enough to reach the 500 words?

3. I also write screenplays. Is this format allowed here?

4. Can I wrote an entry for both this community and another one?

5. Finally, where do I tell you how many weeks I want to play? Also, if I pick a number of weeks and feel like continuing do I have to start all over again, or can I just continue to reach another level?

I think that's it for now. I'm sorry if my questions have been answered before.

Thanks for your answers :)

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

First of all, welcome to the community!

Then to your questions:

1. No need for introductions. Just post your first entry. If you want you can mention that it's your first entry, but that's not compulsory *g*

2 & 3. You can post in any format you want. The only requirement we have is that the story needs to reach the 500 words minimum limit and be on continous story. To clarify, you can't really submit an entry where you write a hundred word drabble about the prompt and then 400 hundred words about something completely else. The 500 words needs to be one story.

4. You can cross post the entry as much as you like. You also don't have to post the entry to the community, you can just link it from your personal journal or whatever place you post it to

5. You don't have to tell us how many weeks your goal is. Just submit as many entries as you feel like. If on some week you don't submit an entry, you'll get the award you earned the following week

I do hope these answers helped. If something was left unclear or you have more questions, please don't hesitate to ask!

tamingmods
(piksa)

[monogatarisan.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if dialogue-only pieces are allowed? I know they might not qualify as "stories", but maybe rather as flash fiction or another kind of prose, but I've found myself very fascinated with the concept and really wanted to work with it, but not just out of nowhere.

Can I post dialogue-only stories and still have them accepted as an answer to a given prompt?

~ S.

[faramirhaldir.livejournal.com]

Hi Mods, I am finally ready to get my feet wet in this community. have been watching and trying to get a handle on how it all works.

I think I will start with the Clio Award. Just to make sure I understand this correctly. I will need to write a story for 6 consecutive weeks and earn at least a 7 in all categories. Then to move on to a higher award I will need to take a week off and start at week one again. Do I need to let you know which award I am going for?

Thanks so much. I am sure i will have more questions, but I will try not to make a pest of myself.

Thanks, Tena

Prompt 134: Posting Difficulty!

[pesha.livejournal.com]

I forgot to hit send on my piece! I was done but I had to work and when I got home and posted as fast as I could, I noticed you'd just posted the closed page.

Is my run over? I really didn't mean to be late posting. I didn't even realize I'd be counted as "late" at this time since it's such a silly hour for me to be up at anyway. (I worked thirds tonight.)

I'm so very sorry.

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the appropriate mod get this -

I was double checking my count to see when I needed to end my run to get the next award when I noticed that I had neglected to tag my entry for prompt 135 "nihilism". It's tagged now, but I just wanted to give you a heads up about it for record keeping purposes. Thanks! :D

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Hi sweetie,

I just checked, and I already had you down for having written that week, but you are so sweet to have let us know! I generally go through the recent entries of the community until I hit the post where the new prompt was introduced, so as not to miss anyone. Going through the tags can mean missing someone for the records, so what I do is a little more time consuming, but I don't leave anyone out. However, tagging makes all the mods very happy, so thank you! ^_^

~Nebula (Tamingmod)

A small question...

[(Anonymous)]

Hello,

first, I'd like to apologize if you already got my e-mail with the same question. Due to computer troubles I cannot log in to LJ, nor be sure if my e-mails really get out.

Anyway, my question is: Does the challenge run end if one is not able to post to the community/LJ due to technical difficulties like for example a virus blocking near to all login pages?

Thanks in advance,

- delilahdraken

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

Hey guys.

This wasn't so much a question as an offer for help (if you even need it!). I've noticed it's been awhile since we've had any weekly updates and I wanted to offer to help with banners. You can check out my work here: http://www.cryptoffic.com/seasonwrite/springwrite/spw2009awards2.html#mar2009

Just let me know if you need any help. Catch you later.

~Cat

[tigerstriped86.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had gotten around to making cute little awards for the March (Simile?) challenge or April Fable challenge? I haven't been able to find it going back through the comm and I know there was that week there where I just couldn't get online.

I don't know much about creating icons, otherwise I'd be more than thrilled to help out with that.

Thanks for your help!

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'm the mod in charge of making the awards, and no, I haven't created them for the March challenge yet. I've unfortunately been very busy, and RL has simply demanded my attention (and still does, and doesn't show any signs of letting up). I hope to have them up tonight; thank you for your patience,

~Nebula

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

Hello mods...

I had a banner question for you. As you know I've been writing double to get the lower awards and I was wondering about the plus goddess awards. They were described here:

http://community.livejournal.com/tamingthemuse/166204.html

but none of the links work anymore. Can we still collect these in this way or are they going to be done differently? I was just wanting to look into it because I was thinking about the "cashing in awards."

Thanks a lot!

~Cat

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Hi,

Thanks for reminding us about the post! A new post was just made with the awards now linked and functional once more.

Cashing in awards still works. If you wanted to use your second writing account to garner these awards, all you'd have to do is hit goddess, then keep going. This time, however, there would be no skipping of weeks: you'd have to keep writing straight through. If you wanted to cash in, you'd simply let us know that you'd hit a certain number of weeks, and that you wanted to cash in your extra weeks beyond 30 for one of the awards. Does that make sense? It feels like I repeated myself a lot and went in a circle, lol. >_<

A note about skipping a week and earning one of the awards, yet starting back at zero and losing goddess-hood, has also been added as point 7. Hope the new post helps!

~Tamingmod (Nebula)

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

Hey mods, I believe this is the week I need to step out for the 21 week award. Could one of you please verify this? I just want to make sure I counted right. Thanks a lot.

~Cat

[authoressnebula.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the lateness of the reply: you hit 22 weeks with prompt number 153. Hope that helps!

~Tamingmod (Nebula)

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

Hey guys! I was just wondering if there was going to be a July monthly challenge posted soon? I haven't been able to do the weekly challenges for a while, but I'd like to get back to doing the monthly. Thanks!

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Hello! The prompt is now up. We are very sorry about it being late!


tamingmods
-piksa-

[cherie-morte.livejournal.com]

Hey, I'm not trying to rush you guys or anything, but I'm just wondering if the monthly challenge will be up before this week ends? I don't want to write for this week until I know if I should try to work it in or not.

Thanks so much!

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

The challenge is now up. Our apologies for being late with it!


tamingmods
(piksa)

[monjinator.livejournal.com]

*face/palm*

cherie_morte and I were talking about the monthly challenges, and I realized that I tagged my entry for the July challenge with the "Monthly Challenge" tag instead of the July challenge-specific tag. I just wanted to let you know for your record keeping - sorry about that!

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

No worries. I checked the tags and now everything should be in order.


tamingmods
(piksa)

[semisweetsoul.livejournal.com]

Hello mods,

I've planned on doing this sooner, but anyway, after 9 weeks of writing I have to take a step back. I might come back in the future, but for the time being, I have other projects to keep me busy (mainly two big bangs!).

I really enjoyed playing, thanks for those *challenging* prompts. I might come back for the monthly challenge, this time or the next.

Bye :)

[lauraceleste.livejournal.com]

My friend, AlexFoster, recommended I try a run. Do you just write and post, or do I need to register somewhere?

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the community!

No need for any registration. Just post your story (or link to it) to the community and your run starts.

We hope you have fun and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us!


tamingmods
(piksa)

[awakeinthenight.livejournal.com]

Hi. With changing our timezones to US Samowa, do we need to change it on both LJ AND our computers or will changing it on LJ alone suffice? Thanks!

Editing

[awakeinthenight.livejournal.com]

Are we permitted to edit our stories once they're posted? For instance, if you get your story in by the propper time, are we allowed to edit it or do we just leave it the way it is? Thanks!

[nondenomifan.livejournal.com]

Why was there no post for this week's prompt? I came to the community to check for it, and I saw 3 fics already posted for it. I wanted to make sure I got the prompt content exactly right, so I scrolled down, and there was no prompt post beyond last week's!

Help???????

It's Thursday, and this is the usual day I start working on my attempt. Every little thing that's happened today has made me cry, etc. I can see that as a sign that another severe depression episode is coming, but I can't shake the fear that the reason I can't see the prompt is because you guys are still pissed at me about last week. *sob* I know that makes no sense, but it's the way my mind is working right now, even though I can see with my own eyes that I'm still a member.

[piksa.livejournal.com]

The prompt post went up about the same time it does every week. You can find the post here (http://community.livejournal.com/tamingthemuse/1301455.html)

[tigerstriped86.livejournal.com]

So...I was going through the old mod posts to see about awards and I noticed we haven't had any welcome/Clio award posts at the end of each week in a couple of weeks. If ya'all need help, just give me a shout out.

[oceanandspace]

I wondered: I wrote the three weeks needed for the first award, but didn't take a week off before trying for another award.
Do I really need to take the week off? Because I know if I do, I'll probably give up at some point...

(by the way, for September's monthly challenge's post, the tags aren't up to date ^^)

[tamingmods.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll admit I'm not sure about the award question, but I'll do my best to find out ^-^.

As to the September Monthly Challenge, exactly what do you mean the tags aren't up to date? As far as I can see, the tags are fine and the links work. If there's something I'm missing, please let me know.

Tamingmods
Xocoatl