Posting Instructions

[smallgiftsmods]

It's time for posting instructions (or, seriously, some of you are finished and have tried to post already?!?!) We are new to DW community moderation, so for those of you who tried to submit and saw the post go public, we are sorry! We believe it's fixed now. Here's how to submit:

OVERVIEW

At Small Gifts, you submit your gift by posting directly to small_gifts. The community is in moderated status, which means that your post will remain hidden and saved in the queue until your mods approve/post it in December. It then will appear exactly as you submitted it, so make sure you've put on the finishing touches! We will review posts for formatting problems and will "reject" your post if necessary so this link broken tags can be fixed.

POSTING INSTRUCTIONS

1) All gifts of fic should be beta read. We will put up a beta lounge post later today so that people can request and offer services.

2) Please format your subject line as follows: Gift type: Title for Recipient. For example:

Art: A Grim Season at Grimmauld Place for lily_evans
Fic: Catty Fireside Stories for peter_pettigrew

No need for quotes or italics with your title or any formatting of your recipient's user name. Clean and simple!

3) Please use the following header:

<b>Title:</b> <br /><b>Author/Artist:</b> <user name=YOUR NAME><br /><b>Recipient:</b> <user names=THEIR NAME><br /><b>Rating:</b> <br /><b>Contents or warnings (highlight to view):</b> *<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #FFFFFF">INSERT WARNINGS HERE </span>*<br /><b>Word count:</b><br /><b>Summary:</b> <br /><b>Notes:</b>

You can delete the notes line if you do not have notes. Please retain the contents or warnings line, though! If you don't have any warnings, simply type "none" where you see "insert warnings here." You should let readers know of major character death, graphic description of violence, rape or non-con, or underage sex.

4) Place your gift itself under a cut, using your title, your first line, or a short quotes as the cut text. Here's how to do that, if you have any questions.

5) Forget something? Need to tinker? Your post is inaccessible to you while it is in the queue. If you need to fix something, just e-mail us at rs.small.gifts at gmail dot com and ask us to reject your post from the queue. You can then resubmit.

If anything goes awry with your formatting or submission, your mods will reject your post and ask you to resubmit. Please keep an eye on your inbox in case we need to alert you to a problem!

POSTING TO OTHER SITES

Every day between December 1 and December 31, your mods will post a gift from the moderation queue. As soon as your gift has appeared here on small_gifts, you're free to crosspost to your own journal or wherever you'd like.

If you've been archiving your work at Archive of Our Own, you have the option to add it to this year's collection, rs_small_gifts 2017. (You can see all Small Gifts fic submitted to AO3 here.) There's a tutorial showing how to add a work to a collection here.

INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING FURTHER?

Want to create a second gift? Want to participate but didn't sign up in October? Look for chances to create second gifts and participate in an open round after first gifts are all up. We also almost always need some pinch hitters, so comment here or email us let us know if you're interested.

Comments

[mustntgetmy]

I can probably do a pinch hit if it's needed :)

[smallgiftsmods]

Thank you! We've got you on the list. :)

[ruinsplume]

Hey Mods, the gift header is still coded for "LJ User" even though we're not on LJ anymore. Should that be replaced with the dreamwidth code?

[smallgiftsmods]

Hey, good point! DW is kind enough to recognize LJ code, so any who uses the header as is will be fine, but we should still change it. Thank you!

[chasingbluefish]

I am hopeless with this crap haha. I copied the header and I have no idea if I'm supposed to break it up or not and what to put where. And the LJ thing. My usual go to is in Vietnam and has questionable data -tear-

[mindabbles]

Hey, no, you just use it as is. I took at look at your submission and the formatting looks perfect — so, you figured it out!!! :)

[chasingbluefish]

Oh good. I haven't posted fic in years so I am all kinds of rusty. Thank you so much for letting me know.

[ocelotting]

I am running late...

[smallgiftsmods]

No problem. I'll email you to arrange an extension.

[ocelotting]

Thank you!

[jepierre]

I had to resubmit mine and just want to make sure it’s all okay :)
Sorry usually I’d wait for you guys to get back to me (I appreciate how much work you guys all put in and don’t want to be needy) but I’m not around later because I’m at a meal for my wedding anniversary.
Thank you so much!

[mindabbles]

Hi there, it looks very good. There’s one tiny thing for the subject line, which we can ask that you fix when it’s posted. I will PM you. Thanks for checking!! I hope you had a wonderful anniversary meal!!

[ruinsplume]

Hey Mods,

I got your email, submitted my entry wrong AGAIN but then (I think, I hope!) did it correctly. Does 3rd submission look okay now? And did the cut text work? I couldn't see it (even in gray) in preview.

Thanks for your patience with my fumblings!

Cheers,

Plum (aka ruinsplume)

[mindabbles]

I just messaged you and gave you an odd wish that was related to the commenter above you and it’s getting late here. :)

[ruinsplume]

Hey Min,

RE my cut text not showing up correctly: I did intend the title of my fic to replace the "read more" bit. This is how I coded it (however, I put spaces in between the < marks for the purposes of this message so that it won't actually show up as a cut in the message):

< cut >[body paragraphs of fic here]< /cut > < cut text="Title of FIc" >

So in other words, the "read more" part goes *after* the closing < /cut >.

Is that right? If it is right but my fic cut is still showing up wrong on your end, I just noticed that in the program I was writing in, it automatically coded the quotation marks the wrong way around after the = sign. So it might be that.

Sorry for the extra work it's making on your end.

I will wait to hear from you whether or not I've coded it right and then try again.

Cheers and thank you!

ruinsplume

[ruinsplume]

Hi Min and Maggie,

I think I still need to resubmit my fic to you because there was a hanging cut tag at the end with part of the fic's title in it. I left you a message just below this one asking if you could confirm that I was coding the cut correctly. If you still need me to resubmit, could you let me know if my coding is right? And then hopefully that will be the end!

Thank you so much!

RuinsPlume

[smallgiftsmods]

Hiya, sorry I didn't get back to you last night. I had to work late and couldn't get back here. I think I see the problem. The cut text coding goes around the words you want to show up -- in this case, the title. It doesn't go around the whole fic. Does that make sense? Unlike LJ, it looks as if people can have two entries in the queue, so go ahead and repost when you can and I'll reject the other one once you've done that.

Thanks, Min

Pinch-hitting

[myprettycabinet]

I'll make another one!

Re: Pinch-hitting

[mindabbles]

Thank you!!!!