Posting Instructions
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small_giftsIt's time for posting instructions! It has come to our attention that a few overacheiving souls are already finished. We are afraid of you, but without further delay, here they are:
OVERVIEW
At Small Gifts, you submit your gift by posting directly tosmall_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 that broken tags, major spelling or grammar issues, missing headers or subject lines, and other bits and pieces can be fixed. We hate that it tells you that your post has been ‘rejected.’ We’re not rejecting you, we promise.
POSTING INSTRUCTIONS
1) All gifts of fic should be beta read. We will put up a beta lounge post in the next couple of days 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:
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 quote 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 email 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!
Gifts are due Sunday, November 25 at 11:59 pm your time. If you need to check in, need an extension, or have any questions at all, email us at rs.small.gifts at gmail dot com.
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 onsmall_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 2018. (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.
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 that broken tags, major spelling or grammar issues, missing headers or subject lines, and other bits and pieces can be fixed. We hate that it tells you that your post has been ‘rejected.’ We’re not rejecting you, we promise. POSTING INSTRUCTIONS
1) All gifts of fic should be beta read. We will put up a beta lounge post in the next couple of days 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:
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 quote 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 email 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!
Gifts are due Sunday, November 25 at 11:59 pm your time. If you need to check in, need an extension, or have any questions at all, email us at rs.small.gifts at gmail dot com.
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 2018. (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.
