Tossing Out a Question/Idea

[scribblemyname]

Floating an idea just to see if this holds any interest for anyone but me. A lot of us fanficcers are original ficcers too and I don't know about you, but I am both

1) motivated by gift exchanges
2) more thrilled by fanfic than a review

Would anyone be interested in an exchange (time of year uncertain) where original ficcers could nominate any of their freely available (with coupon code or password fine) fiction or narrative poetry and then either write for it and/or receive fic for it?

I know there are a few folks I know who I love requesting fic of and love writing fic for their worlds. I was over the moon the two times I got fanfic written of my own stuff. I also accomplish far more original fiction when someone's prompting me.

Is this just me? Would anyone else be interested?

Comments

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

It's a concept!

If original stuff isn't freely available, though, it'd have to go somewhere locked with very trustworthy participants, because the minute something's published in an open comm or blog (not just an excerpt, but the complete work), it becomes already published and not eligible for submission to most markets.

There are a bunch of ways this could be done. It's a really interesting idea.

[scribblemyname]

I do like the idea of a locked comm for handling privacy. I also think most of the ficcers I know are pretty trustworthy with IP (fanfic habit aside). :mulls:

I can figure out how to do it, just not sure if anyone would actually want to. Right now, I got an interest of three really.