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Halfway through November, and the countdown to the winter holidays and the end of 2009 has already begun!

WORKING ON A SMALL GIFT?

Small gifts are due two weeks from tomorrow, November 30, at midnight your time! Remember, all fics must be beta-read before posting! Drop by the beta lounge to offer your beta services or look for help.

On or before November 30, you should submit your gift to the comm by posting directly to rs_small_gifts, just as you'd post to any community. We're on "moderated" status, though, which means that instead of appearing immediately, your gift will go into a moderation queue. We'll approve/make public a couple gifts every day, all month.

Once your fic or art goes into the moderation queue, it can't be altered or edited until we "approve" it by posting it, so make sure you're done before submitting--or, if you need to tinker, send an e-mail to one of your mods who can reject the post so you can change what you need to change. If your gift appears to have formatting problems, one of the moderators will "reject" it so that you can fix it.

When you format your art or fic, please:
1) Place gift type (fic or art), title, and recipient in the subject line:
Example: "Fic: Five Times Remus and Sirius Almost Forgot Peter's Birthday for lily_evans"
2) Place your fic or art under an lj-cut. Here's how to do that, if you have any questions.
3) Use the following header to provide information about your gift (if you don't have any warnings, simply type "none" where you see "insert warnings here"):

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="YOUR NAME"> <b>Recipient:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="THEIR NAME"> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Highlight for Warnings:</b> *<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">INSERT WARNINGS HERE </span>* <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Author's notes:</b>

Every day between December 1 and January 1, your mods will post a few gifts from the moderation queue. As soon as your gift has appeared on rs_small_gifts, you're free to crosspost to your own journal or wherever you'd like.

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING FURTHER? Want to create a second gift? Want to participate but didn't sign up in October?

* Second gifts.As soon as participants have submitted their first small gift to the moderation queue, they can go back to the list of prompts, select another prompt, and work on another gift. The more the merrier!

* Pinch hitters are always treasured! We'll call for pinch-hitters in early December, but you can volunteer by commenting to this post with your name and preferred e-mail address.

* Open round. In mid-December we'll open up all unclaimed prompts to claiming by anyone who'd like to participate--even if you weren't able to sign up back in October. More details to follow!

FIFTEEN DAYS AND COUNTING!