Not ready for prime time (fandoms)

Dear prime time player

2016-04-19T16:21:01Z

Sign up form. They will close April 30th.

You can post your link to your Dear Prime Time Player letter or post the letter itself within the comments below. Don't forget to post your AO3 username with your letter, especially if your journal name doesn't match your AO3 username.

Here is the Not Prime Time 2016 signup summary (shows up when at least 5 people have signed up)

Example Comment:
BridgetMcKennitt
(Link to letter)
Fandoms:
Psych
National Football League RPF
Hikaru no Go

On LJ | On DW

Useful Links
Not Prime Time 2016 (with schedule) | Prime Time Madness 2016
Frequently Asked Questions | AO3 exchange faq for participants | Pinch Hitting faq
2016 nominations

Beta resources

2015-06-02T18:11:37Z

Please comment below if you're willing to offer your services as a beta.

AO3 name:
Contact info: [PM journal name, email, etc]
What I beta: [canon, geography, language, SPAG, etc]
Fandoms I'll beta:
How much time you need to give me:
Please do not ask me to beta:
Please warn me of the following content:

Here are some other resources that may or may not be useful to you:
beta_search - From their profile: Beta_Search is a community for all LJ users to search for beta readers (editors) to look over their fan fiction for them.
Pro Writing Aid - otherwise affectionally known as Robobeta in yulechat. Just copy and paste your story or passage into the box, and the site will flag many things to bring to your attention, like overused words, cliches, sentence length, grammar, etc. While not a true beta (because robot) and may bring up many things you disagree with (again, robot), it can be helpful.

Stories are due July 3rd.

Entry on LJ | Entry on DW

Dear Prime Time Player

2015-04-19T03:47:09Z

Sign up form. They will close April 30th.

You can post your link to your Dear Prime Time Player letter or post the letter itself within the comments below. Don't forget to post your AO3 username with your letter, especially if your journal name doesn't match your AO3 username.

Here is the Not Prime Time 2015 signup summary (shows up when at least 5 people have signed up)

Example Comment:
BridgetMcKennitt
(Link to letter)
Fandoms:
Psych
National Football League RPF
Hikaru no Go

On LJ | On DW

Femslashex

2014-10-29T15:10:58Z

If you haven't checked it out yet, the Femslash Exchange 2014 collection is up and open for reading. This is a multifandom femslash exchange. Enjoy!

Gen Fic Swap

2014-10-05T16:17:53Z

If you haven't checked it out yet, Gen Fic Swap Round 1 collection is up and open for reading. This is a multifandom, character-centered genfic exchange. Enjoy!

Fic Corner

2014-09-13T21:51:57Z

If you haven't checked it out yet, this year's Fic Corner collection is up and open for reading. There is also a treat collection. Enjoy!

Bring Back The Porn's masterlist is up

2014-09-03T23:06:33Z

Bring Back The Porn's masterlist of all the works created this year is now up. Enjoy!

Rare Pair Fest is open

2014-08-20T18:14:27Z

Stories and art for Rare Pair Fest's latest round are open at their main collection and their treat collection. Many of the listed rare pairs are also in medium sized fandoms and hopefully are right up your alley. Enjoy!

Recs

2014-07-12T17:00:07Z

Both the Not Prime Time 2014 and the Prime Time Madness 2014 collections are open and there are plenty of wonderful stories for everyone to read. If you enjoyed a story and want to share it with the rest of the community, please leave your recs within the comments of the thread.

LJ post | DW post

Beta resources

2014-05-29T18:26:11Z

Please comment below if you're willing to offer your services as a beta.

AO3 name:
Contact info: [PM journal name, email, etc]
What I beta: [canon, geography, language, SPAG, etc]
Fandoms I'll beta:
How much time you need to give me:
Please do not ask me to beta:
Please warn me of the following content:

Here are some other resources that may or may not be useful to you:
beta_search - From their profile: Beta_Search is a community for all LJ users to search for beta readers (editors) to look over their fan fiction for them.
Pro Writing Aid - otherwise affectionally known as Robobeta in yulechat. Just copy and paste your story or passage into the box, and the site will flag many things to bring to your attention, like overused words, cliches, sentence length, grammar, etc. While not a true beta (because robot) and may bring up many things you disagree with (again, robot), it can be helpful.
How to write a scene in 11 steps - found off pinterest
adjectives add color to our writing - found off pinterest
other ways to say... - found off pinterest

Stories are due July 3rd.

Entry on LJ | Entry on DW

Dear Prime Time Player

2014-04-19T04:21:09Z

Signups are open! They will close April 30th.

You can post your link to your Dear Prime Time Player letter or post the letter itself within the comments below. Don't forget to post your AO3 username with your letter, especially if your journal name doesn't match your AO3 username.

Here is the Not Prime Time 2014 signup summary (shows up when at least 5 people have signed up)

Example Comment:
BridgetMcKennitt
(Link to letter)
Fandoms:
Psych
National Football League RPF
Hikaru no Go

On LJ | On DW

Nominations still going on

2014-04-11T04:14:33Z

Nominations are open until April 15th. Nomination form.

You're able to nominate up to 7 fandoms and for each fandom, up to 6 characters. The fandoms must be medium sized fandoms (unless it's an RPF fandom or movie fandom which means it can also be a potential Yuletide fandom as well) and you can check eligibility rules here. Please nominate fandoms that you are intending to request or offer.

You must have an AO3 account to use the nomination form. If you need an invitation, please contact us at notprimetime@gmail.com.

You can see the nominations tag set here to see what has been approved.

Note: Fandoms will be the first things approved. Character approvals will be much slower. Approved fandoms and characters will be visible during nominations.

Updating megafandoms list + more

2014-03-12T22:35:48Z

If you know of a fandom that should be considered a megafandom (over 20,000 fics) but isn't on the list, please reply in a comment below along with a link to an archive/comm/etc. This is so a) we have digital evidence of a fandom's "mega" status instead of relying solely on word of mouth, b) it gives fans who weren't aware of where to find those fics an opportunity to find a new treasure trove, c) your mods aren't aware of every part of fandom and they will miss things that may be obvious to someone else in their corner of the net, so help is appreciated.

The megafandom list can be found either on LJ or on DW.

This list will be updated until April 1st when we lock it for the duration of the upcoming round, and will open it again for updates once the round is over.

There's a fandoms promotion post (on LJ | on DW) where you can promote your fandom and find out what people are requesting/offering.

New changes have been posted on the admin comm.

Nominations begin April 5 to April 15. We hope to see you there!

Fandoms Promotion

2014-03-01T22:04:03Z

Nominations are just around the corner, starting April 5th, and it takes time to review canons or to possibly take on new canons. If you'd like to promote your fandoms in order to entice fellow participants to offer/request, this is the place to do it.

Please keep discussions of each individual fandom in separate comment/comment threads with the subject of it as that fandom. Please also put as your first sentence a list of common potential triggers (in the canon and especially anything is in your comment).

Our guidelines for a medium sized fandom can be found through this link for RPF, movie, and other fandoms.

on LJ | on DW

2014 schedule

2014-01-16T05:42:17Z

The 2014 schedule for Not Prime Time is as follows:

April 5 to 15 - Nominations
April 15 to 18 - Corrections
April 19 to 30 - Sign ups
May 3 - Assignments go out by the latest
May 5 - Madness collection and prompts open
July 3 - Stories due
July 9 - Main collection goes live
July 12 - Madness collection goes live
July 16 - Author reveals

We hope to see you there!

Other exchanges throughout the rest of the year

2013-10-05T04:26:19Z

There are many wonderful multifandom exchanges throughout the year that overlap in niche-ness both with each other as well as Not Prime Time. While many of these exchanges are for small fandoms, most of them feature medium sized fandoms as well (or at least fandoms that NPT accepts for its eligibility).

The Exchange at Fic Corner: fic_corner. Children's and YA books and short stories from picture books to edgy teen novel.

Femslashex: femslashex. Fanfiction exchange for fans of femslash.

Jukebox Fanworks Exchange: jukebox_fest. Song-based fanworks.

Kaleidoscope: darkagenda. Multimedia fanwork exchange for rare chromatic source fandoms.

Parallels Fanworks Exchange: parallelsfic. Rare Asian fandoms.

Rare Characters Fanworks Exchange: rarecharacters. Multi-fandom exchange community for underrated characters.

Rare Pair Exchange: rarepairfest. Rare pairs in ALL fandoms, canon or non-canon pairings.

Rare Ship Swap: shipswap. A community for the exchange of fics dedicated to rare ships.

Rare Women Fic Exchange: rarewomen. Rare women, from big and small fandoms.

Yuletide: yuletide_admin. Rare fandoms exchange.

End of 2013 round

2013-07-11T04:29:01Z

Not Prime Time 2013 and Prime Time Madness 2013 are officially over and authors have been revealed.

Throughout the hiatus, we'll promote works that were posted during this round on our tumblr account.

The Exchange at Fic Corner is Open for Brainstorming.

2013-07-06T16:43:55Z

A Kids' and YA Book Fic Exchange

The Exchange at Fic Corner is a gift exchange for fic based on children's and YA books and short stories from picture books to edgy teen novels. The FAQ can be found on the fic_corner on Dreamwidth or fic_corner on LiveJournal comms. Information will also be posted to Fic-corner on tumblr

The Exchange at Fic Corner 2013 Schedule
July 6th - Comm Opens for Brainstorming
July 12th - 21th - Nominations
July 22nd - 29th - Sign-Ups
July 31st - Assignments Sent Out
September 22nd - Deadline for Stories
September 29th - Collection Goes Live

Kids/YA Book Fic Exchange title run-off poll

2013-07-01T03:04:34Z

Run-off round for the top two titles and a few I liked from the comments. This second poll will last until Tuesday morning when I will make a decision and a Comm.

Children's/YA Book Fic Exchange prelimary poll

2013-06-29T15:16:41Z

It's early days yet but I'm planning on running a kids'/YA book fic exchange this August and I've got a poll up on my Dreamwidth to gauge interest and hopefully choose a name.

The current plan involves nominations in mid-July, assignments by the beginning of August and reveal in early September. It will be open to all books or stories published for children or Young Adults (including republished adult titles and audio only books & stories), with no limits on original language or popularity.

Expect a pretty banner and comm links once this thing has a name.

Beta resources

2013-05-24T19:06:40Z

Please comment below if you're willing to offer your services as a beta.

AO3 name:
Contact info: [PM journal name, email, etc]
What I beta: [canon, geography, language, SPAG, etc]
Fandoms I'll beta:
How much time you need to give me:
Please do not ask me to beta:
Please warn me of the following content:

Here are some other resources that may or may not be useful to you:
beta_search - From their profile: Beta_Search is a community for all LJ users to search for beta readers (editors) to look over their fan fiction for them.
Pro Writing Aid - otherwise affectionally known as Robobeta in yulechat. Just copy and paste your story or passage into the box, and the site will flag many things to bring to your attention, like overused words, cliches, sentence length, grammar, etc. While not a true beta (because robot) and may bring up many things you disagree with (again, robot), it can be helpful.
How to write a scene in 11 steps - found off pinterest
adjectives add color to our writing - found off pinterest
other ways to say... - found off pinterest

Stories are due June 28th.

Entry on LJ | Entry on DW

Dear Prime Time Player

2013-04-18T16:06:55Z

Signups are open!

You can post your link to your Dear Prime Time Player letter or post the letter itself within the comments below. Don't forget to post your AO3 username with your letter, especially if your journal name doesn't match your AO3 username.

Here is the Not Prime Time 2013 signup summary (shows up when at least 5 people have signed up)

Example Comment:
BridgetMcKennitt
(Link to letter)
Fandoms:
Psych
National Football League RPF
Fairy Tail

On LJ | On DW

moirariordan made a spreadsheet of everyone's letters. Thank you. :)

Banners

2013-03-12T17:15:16Z

We have some banners under the lj-cut if you'd like to help promote Not Prime Time, including one that's the html code for just text and links.

If inspiration strikes and you'd like to create a Not Prime Time banner or icons to share, please don't hesitate in posting it in the comm. Jenn and I would appreciate it and the more the merrier.

(The tag set link won't really be usable until nominations start on April 5, so don't worry that there's nothing there yet).

Not Prime Time (AO3 collection)
npt_admin on LJ | npt_admin on DW | Not Prime Time tumblr
Frequently Asked Questions | Not Prime Time 2013 Tag Set
Not Ready For Prime Time (Fandoms), or otherwise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms. This is for the fandoms that are no longer eligible for Yuletide but are not megafandoms.

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Not Prime Time (AO3 collection)
npt_admin on LJ | npt_admin on DW | Not Prime Time tumblr
Frequently Asked Questions | Not Prime Time 2013 Tag Set
Not Ready For Prime Time (Fandoms), or otherwise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms. This is for the fandoms that are no longer eligible for Yuletide but are not megafandoms.

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Not Prime Time (AO3 collection)
npt_admin on LJ | npt_admin on DW | Not Prime Time tumblr
Frequently Asked Questions | Not Prime Time 2013 Tag Set
Not Ready For Prime Time (Fandoms), or otherwise known as Not Prime Time, is a gen, het, femslash, and slash multifandom secret fiction exchange for medium sized fandoms. This is for the fandoms that are no longer eligible for Yuletide but are not megafandoms.

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Hiatus Resolution Stories: February 8th to 15th

2013-02-15T05:56:47Z

This week in the Hiatus Resolution 2012 collection:

The Difficulties of the Watched (1185 words) by Merfilly
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Fifth Doctor/Vislor Turlough, Tegan Jovanka/Nyssa of Traken
Characters: TARDIS, Fifth Doctor, Nyssa of Traken, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough
Additional Tags: Voyeurism, Femslash, Male Slash, Cultural Differences
Summary:

In which Nyssa and Tegan ask a question, and what ensues.

Want to join in on the fun? The 2012 list of participant prompts is here. If you need an AO3 code invite, please let us know.

Hiatus Resolution

2013-02-10T17:51:58Z

Nominations are a few months away (April 5 to April 12) which means there's still time for people to write stories for Hiatus Resolution.

From the FAQ:
Just like Yuletide has New Year’s Resolution, Not Prime Time has Hiatus Resolution. Once author reveals are over, a new collection will be available for anyone who wants to fill one of prompts from the prompt list. You didn't have to participate in the latest Not Prime Time exchange to fulfill a prompt.

Just like with Not Prime Time, having a story that matches the fandom and characters of a request and meets the minimum 1000 word limit is all we require.

You can upload your story in the Hiatus Resolution 2012 collection. Prompts can be found on googledocs.