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Show rules for this event
Hello! Welcome back for another She-Ra writeoff, and our first since season two has aired. And what a season it was! Season two spoilers are welcome in this event, so if you are still behind on watching now is a very good time to get caught up—if you haven't heard that it's worth it from everyone else (how?), then take this as a ringing endorsement from me.
This time, the event is a short story event, with a word limit of 2000-8000 words over three days of writing time. At the time of writing, prompt submissions close in around 17 and a half hours, so here's a few words of advice about prompts:
• Prompts should be generic. Yes, I know we're writing fanfiction about a relatively short show, which gives us only so much to work with, but a prompt like "Catra Redemption" forces us to write, well, a Catra redemption. Your prompt absolutely shouldn't force anyone into writing a particular character (or set of characters), or use a particular time/location. Variety is the spice of life, and here at the writeoffs we like to encourage prompts that can have varied takes.
• Prompts should be appropriate: please remember that this event is open to all audiences, with a general content rating of "teen", and that prompts should respect that restriction.
• Prompts should take the correct form. The best writeoff prompts are short phrases (or even single words), which allow authors to write on a theme. Instructions ("Write a silly pairing") or long prompts are not what we're looking for, here. The latter mostly because there's a fairly small character count on the prompt input box.
As another point of order, our last She-Ra event showed quite clearly a little bit of a value clash between newer and older members of the community. I'd like to take a moment to clear up a few things, in the hopes that we can avoid further clashes before they escalate to conflict:
While critical feedback is a valued and important part of writeoff culture, it is important for all of us in this fledgling group to remember that we are primarily here because we enjoy creating things, be they fanfics or fanart. There is, in my opinion, no helpful feedback—no matter how harsh—that cannot be given in a friendly, supportive way, but it is imperative that we as a community are supportive (friendly is, perhaps, a bit too much to ask of strangers on the internet. Polite and respectful, however, is not.) We are attempting to encourage this community to grow, after all.
The writeoffs operate in many ways on the principle of good faith. The site lacks many moderation options that you would see in most large-scale forums, because we hold the assumption that people come here with good intentions to participate in our community constructively. As far as I am aware, while we have had drama over the years (oh boy, have we had drama), this principle has held relatively firm. I would like for this to continue to be the case—newcomers, however, may have a better perspective on how well this system is really working, and I would encourage everyone in the old crowd (myself included) to listen to their feedback and to take action where necessary.
To boil it down to one simple point: writeoffs should be fun. Let's do our best to make sure that everyone enjoys themselves, shall we?
With that out of the way, I want to wish everyone the best of luck with the event. Spread the word, let your writer and artist friends know about us. Writeoffs work at their best when they build a community of people. Have a great one, everyone!
P.S. Any questions? Reply to me here, or drop a message in either the writeoff discord server or the she-ra discord's writeoff channel. I keep an eye on the latter, and there's plenty of lovely, helpful people in the former who'll help before I even notice it.
This time, the event is a short story event, with a word limit of 2000-8000 words over three days of writing time. At the time of writing, prompt submissions close in around 17 and a half hours, so here's a few words of advice about prompts:
• Prompts should be generic. Yes, I know we're writing fanfiction about a relatively short show, which gives us only so much to work with, but a prompt like "Catra Redemption" forces us to write, well, a Catra redemption. Your prompt absolutely shouldn't force anyone into writing a particular character (or set of characters), or use a particular time/location. Variety is the spice of life, and here at the writeoffs we like to encourage prompts that can have varied takes.
• Prompts should be appropriate: please remember that this event is open to all audiences, with a general content rating of "teen", and that prompts should respect that restriction.
• Prompts should take the correct form. The best writeoff prompts are short phrases (or even single words), which allow authors to write on a theme. Instructions ("Write a silly pairing") or long prompts are not what we're looking for, here. The latter mostly because there's a fairly small character count on the prompt input box.
As another point of order, our last She-Ra event showed quite clearly a little bit of a value clash between newer and older members of the community. I'd like to take a moment to clear up a few things, in the hopes that we can avoid further clashes before they escalate to conflict:
While critical feedback is a valued and important part of writeoff culture, it is important for all of us in this fledgling group to remember that we are primarily here because we enjoy creating things, be they fanfics or fanart. There is, in my opinion, no helpful feedback—no matter how harsh—that cannot be given in a friendly, supportive way, but it is imperative that we as a community are supportive (friendly is, perhaps, a bit too much to ask of strangers on the internet. Polite and respectful, however, is not.) We are attempting to encourage this community to grow, after all.
The writeoffs operate in many ways on the principle of good faith. The site lacks many moderation options that you would see in most large-scale forums, because we hold the assumption that people come here with good intentions to participate in our community constructively. As far as I am aware, while we have had drama over the years (oh boy, have we had drama), this principle has held relatively firm. I would like for this to continue to be the case—newcomers, however, may have a better perspective on how well this system is really working, and I would encourage everyone in the old crowd (myself included) to listen to their feedback and to take action where necessary.
To boil it down to one simple point: writeoffs should be fun. Let's do our best to make sure that everyone enjoys themselves, shall we?
With that out of the way, I want to wish everyone the best of luck with the event. Spread the word, let your writer and artist friends know about us. Writeoffs work at their best when they build a community of people. Have a great one, everyone!
P.S. Any questions? Reply to me here, or drop a message in either the writeoff discord server or the she-ra discord's writeoff channel. I keep an eye on the latter, and there's plenty of lovely, helpful people in the former who'll help before I even notice it.
>>QuillScratch
P.P.S. As a follow-up prompt guideline:
Please don't include season two spoilers in your prompts
While the event welcomes them, the chosen prompt will be public-facing in the url to the event, and I do not want to spoil people while sharing the link! Thanks
P.P.S. As a follow-up prompt guideline:
Please don't include season two spoilers in your prompts
While the event welcomes them, the chosen prompt will be public-facing in the url to the event, and I do not want to spoil people while sharing the link! Thanks
