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

[mihnn.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks :)About the Goddess awards, when it says cash in, does that mean that you have to start from the beginning with the 30 weeks all over again once you cash it in? Or does it mean that as you go along, and as long as you don't miss any weeks, you can collect each award?

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

You had it the first time. Basically every week you make past 30 goes into a bank because you can't "cash in" your first 30. So say once you hit 40 weeks you could "cash in" 10 for the 40 week banner. But then you would be back to 0 in your over Goddess bank. I believe the reason they did it this way was to give us something to work towards for a long time. To be honest I have all my over Goddess weeks to cash in!

I hope that makes sense. As you can see there are awards to collect without cashing in post Goddess as well. These come about twice a year. Then when you reach 4 yrs you may come and go as you please without losing any of the weeks you have accumulated. :-)

I hope that's clear. if not, please ask and I'll try to explain better. LOL

Taming Mod
~Cat

[mihnn.livejournal.com]

Haha, no, you explained it fine :) Just final question before I start posting...

Can I use the prompt given each week for multi-chapter stories? And if I do, is there a requirement that every chapter following must also be inclusive of the weekly prompt?

I ask this cause I am currently writing a multi-chapter (30 chapters in) and I'd like to use the prompts as inspiration.

[catw00man.livejournal.com]

You can use the prompt for anything you like. For my "second run" awards I primarily used this very long piece I was writing and posted 500+ words each week if I could work in the prompt. If I couldn't I posted something else. As long as you meet the 500 word minimum and work in the prompt somehow it is perfectly fine to TBC things.

Also, as an aside about the prompts, they don't have to be used literally, as in you don't have to use the word itself. It's perfectly fine if you do but you can also write something inspired by the prompt as well and it's perfectly within the rules. Each week is a separate challenge so nothing has to carry over from week to week unless you want it to.

I hope that answered what you were asking. :-D

Taming Mod
~Cat

[mihnn.livejournal.com]

You're amazing with giving answers, you know? ;) Just one final teensy, tiny question. Can I, instead of writing with two different accounts tell you which thing I'm aiming for in the title itself?

Eg: - Prompt number - Prompt - Story Title - mihnn - Fandom
- Prompt number - Prompt - Story Title - mihnn2 - Fandom

Then you can make two separate tags, right?