ADMIN POST: The Mission Report Challenge

[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

Okay, this comes from an idea by nudaydreamer and it's like, three--three!--cool challenges in one! As she puts it:

I'd love to see a Mission Report Challenge. We all know some crazy shit happens on those other worlds, and authors could choose to a) write a (pornalicious?) Report That Will Never Actually Be Filed Because Elizabeth Would Freak Out And Such, b) write a euphemistically suggestive report that leaves those of us with dirty minds quite clear on what happened, without being explicit, or possibly c) take another author's story and write a report of type a or b for it.

Everybody got that? See, it's kind of a Document Challenge and it's kind of a Remix and it's kind of Classified and Porny--or not; it's a festival, really. Now to clarify about option c)--if you choose to write a mission report of somebody else's story, we'll ask you to credit them, but we won't require you to ask their permission Edited to add: and get their permission, or check the links below. HOWEVER, if you want to opt OUT of option c)--i.e. tell people that they can't write a mission report of your story or stories, even with credit--please leave a comment in this post ASAP. Edited to add: link to new opt-out post below! We WILL ask challenge respondents to check before posting that the writer hasn't opted out of the challenge. Edited to add: Merryish reminds me to say that it is, of course, perfectly acceptable to write a mission report on one of your own stories!

It's August 21st; stories will be due on Monday, September 4th, Labor Day, at midnight.


Edited to add: Freezing comments here: click here for a policy clarification, opt-in, and opt-out posts are above.

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[cesperanza.livejournal.com]

We're neither suggesting or limiting writers, and while permission is always polite, we don't believe it's mandatory. Crediting is mandatory--saying "This was inspired by" X is mandatory, because otherwise it's plagiarism (i.e. passing someone else's work off as your own). But other than that, if people rec your work or review it or whatever, you might not know that it's out there either, you know?

And people will gripe....period. Because this is the internet.

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[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

And people will gripe....period. Because this is the internet.

Yeah, any doubt about that, just check out hth_the_first's reply.

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[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Uh... Hth isn't griping about the challenge. Other people are.

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[rosewildeirish.livejournal.com]

But Hth is most assuredly griping.

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[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Whatever. I think it's rather obvious that Cesca meant people would inevitably gripe *about the challenge*.

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[seperis.livejournal.com]

I think there would be less worry if this was more opt-in and less opt-out.

And no, I'm not taking a position yet on it, since I participate in remix and am hosting the challenge for DVD commentaries. I'm just thinking still. So can I please be spared some of the sarcasm being tossed out above?

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[liviapenn.livejournal.com]

Why are you asking me? I don't think I've been sarcastic in this thread at all.