Rules & Header Info

[hpraremod]

Welcome to hprarefest, a fest established for Harry Potter rare pairings. This fest is an anonymous, prompt-based challenge.



Rules

• Participants and readers of this fest MUST be 18 years old. There will be explicit stories within hprarefest and the mods will take no responsibility for underage readers or writers.

• These are our banned pairings. Please take a moment to look at these pairings. :)

• This is an anonymous prompt-based fest. Fic and art may contain het, slash, femme slash, and threesomes of all ratings. All genres are welcome in this fest! Angst, flangst, fluff, hurt/comfort, romance, drama, humour, etc. If you can write/draw it, we want it!

•All stories submitted must be unique to this fest.

• Again, this fest is anonymous, please do not tell anyone other than your beta(s) what the specifics of your story/art. We want the submissions to be kept as secret as possible. In addition, please only mention your beta(s) by initials in your author’s notes. Once the fest is over, there will be a big reveal and authors/artists will be able to respond to all comments as well as post their submission to their own journal!

• If you have questions, you may ask them questions here in the comments. Additionally, you may email the Mods directly at: rarefestmods@gmail.com

• All entries must be at least 1,000 words in length and beta read. There is no maximum. If you do not already have a beta reader, we will be putting a call out for betas after claiming has closed. Alternatively you can try hp_betas or hp_betas_wanted. Mods reserve the right to proof your submissions and return your fic/art to you if it's a total mess that clearly hasn't been looked over.

• Please include all appropriate html tags in the body of your story. Don't know what html tags are? Go check out phoenixacid's html guide.

• As soon as your entry is complete and beta read, feel free to email it to us. Fic should be sent in .docx, .doc. Art should be jpeg, gif, or png, please. (The subject of your email should read: SUBMISSION- YOUR USERNAME)

• Once we've confirmed receipt, you may ask for an additional prompt if you so desire.

• Extensions will be judged on an individual basis. Try to give us as much notice as possible, we mods don't love last minute panics, it messes with our pretty schedules! (The subject of your email should read: EXTENSION- YOUR USERNAME). If you need to drop out for any reason, please send us an email letting us know before the deadline for submissions and there will be no consequences.

HEADERS:

<b>Title:</b> <b>Author/Artist:</b> <user site="livejournal.com" user="""> <b>Prompt:</b> Write the Prompt # and the user name of the person that provided it. <b>Pairing(s):</b> <b>Word Count/Art Medium:</b> (Remember that the minimum is 1,000 words!) <b>Rating:</b> (G to NC-17) <b>Warning(s)/Content:</b> <b>Disclaimer:</b>Harry Potter characters are the property of J.K. Rowling and Bloomsbury/Scholastic. No profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended. <b>Notes:</b> (You may put your beta's initials here along with any other notes.) <b>Summary: </b> <lj-cut text="STORY TITLE">

Comments

[hpraremod]

You don't need to sign in or anything to post your prompts :) However, to claim prompts and write them, you must claim one prompt when we post the claiming post, which will be this time, tomorrow night. :)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!! Thank you!!!

can I claim more than one prompt? or just one?

[hpraremod]

You can only claim one prompt at a time. So if you claim a prompt and then finish writing it quickly, after getting it beta'd, you can send it to us and choose another prompt that hasn't already been claimed. :)

[nevrafire.livejournal.com]

oh ok.

thanks for answering so quickyl!"

I dont have a beta. ;(

where do i get one?

[hpraremod]

The best place to request a beta is at hp_betas and hp_betas_wanted. :)

[cafe-ennui.livejournal.com]

A couple of very likely daft and/or already answered questions (because I'm oblivious like that) ...

1. I haven't decided whether I want to sign up or not yet, but if I do does it matter that I haven't submitted a prompt?

"choose another prompt that hasn't already been claimed."

2. So only one person per prompt? How do we know if the prompt we want to claim has already been taken?

[hpraremod]

Not daft at all. We have this information in the claiming post which we are posting tomorrow, but I will tell you now :)

1. You can certainly write a prompt, even if you haven't submitted a prompt yourself.

2. It's one fic and one art per prompt, yes. So for example, if the prompt is claimed for art, you can still claim it as a fic. However, there is only one fic and one art allowed per prompt. When the prompt has been taken, we will write 'CLAIMED FOR FIC' (or art, whatever one is taken. Or it might be 'claimed for art and fic') next to it in big red writing. However, on the claim form, you can type two choices (your first and second choice), just in case we don't get to typing claimed next to the prompt when it's been taken before someone else askes for it.

I hope that makes sense. If you have any other questions or want more information about these answers, please feel free to ask! :)