.:: ADMIN POST tattle tales challenge

2010-11-16T14:33:05Z

Posted by: espressomorning

The new challenge we bring to you is in spirit of our kick off:

TATTLE TALES

There are so many tales to tell. Many children's tales were told with some moral reasoning behind them, and other were simply to get a child to sleep. Does the team have any favorite tales to share? Or do you know a tale that can be applied to one or more NCIS agent?

Some famous fables:
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Cinderella
Hansel and Gretel
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Little Mermaid
The Princess and the Pea
...and many more!

This challenge will be open for TWO weeks. Anticipated closing of challenge is Tuesday, November 30, 2010.

Always remember, subjects to your post are to be formatted as: [Title] by [author], and attach appropriate tags. An author tag will be created for you by a moderator at their earliest convienence.

Crossposted at LiveJournal

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.::ADMIN POST prompt suggestions

2010-11-09T15:17:31Z

Posted by: espressomorning

Calling all thinkers! If you have any ideas for challenges in the future, please feel free to leave them in the dropbox here! If we use one of your suggestions, you will get credited properly once posted.

All comments to this entry is screened. We also ask that you give a brief explanation for your prompt, such as what inspired it. However a detailed explanation is not necessary, but something small just to give the moderators an idea of how to communicate it thoroughly for responding challengers.

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.:: ADMIN POST relaunch

2010-11-09T15:10:35Z

Posted by: espressomorning

While searching available NCIS communities for quality challenges, other than the regular drabble communities or sign-up for rounds ones, to inspire new stories, I remembered ncis_flashfic after haven written a couple stories some time ago. I knew then, and now, that this community as great potential with dedication. I wrote to the maintainers for the community to inquire about relaunching these great challenges and both malnpudl and blueraccoon were very welcoming to the idea.

This community originally was created by the combination of efforts from crimsonquills , blueraccoon , and malnpudl. While I have taken the wheel to head the relaunch, blueraccoon and malnpudl are still very much with us in the background as silent partners in this venture.

Rules & Information:
This community is modeled from the ds_flashfiction & sga_flashfic communities and roughly follow the same rules. Challenges are posted every once every two weeks; writers have within that time to respond to the challenge.

Writers' stories must be posted only to the ncis_flashfic community for the duration of the challenge. The challenge will be formally closed by the moderator at the end of the challenge period. Writers may keep posting until you see the formal closing message from a moderator. After that message, no more stories for the challenge will be accepted, and writers are free to crosspost their stories to their own journals, websites, archives, etc.

For your archivist's convenience, please format post subjects as "[title] by [author name]".

Please include the community standard header information format as indicated, including pairings (if any) and age rating. The story itself must be behind a cut. The provided header has cut tags written in for your convenience.

Minimum word counts for stories is 100 words with no maximum, ever. Regardless of the length of your story, please post only one post in a single part, per story. Spoiler warning must be included in provided header for any episode or event that has taken place during season 7 to present. Please avoid use of made up pairings, such as Tiva, Tate, Tibbs, etc; instead using the character names Tony/Ziva, Tony/Kate, Tony/Gibbs.

Please use post tags where appropriate! I have created a large number of tags for use. If you require one specifically for your post, please include a note for a moderator BELOW the closing tag for the LJ cut. Regarding NCIS: Los Angeles: challenges responses within this fandom is welcome! Please indicate in your posts what character/pairing tags you require.

Advertising (Pimping) Policy:
The only communities we will allow to be advertised on this community are writing-related NCIS communities. We want to limit non-fiction posts and to keep things on topic for our readers. In all cases of community pimpage, we regard it as polite to ask permission first.

To Contact the Mods:
If you have any questions, feel free to drop a comment in any admin post; this means any post on the community whose subject line begins with ADMIN and/or tagged with ".:: ADMIN POST". Current Moderators are primarily espressomorning with support from espressomorning by e-mail at cafe.addict(at)gmx(dot)com. I check my email multiple times through the day, and usually receive alert notices directly on my mobile phone. I will generally respond within 24 to 48 hours max. If I have not responded within that time frame, please contact malnpudl first via LJ pm.

Please help spread the word about the ncis_flashfic's home on DW! The first challenge here will be when the next one begins over on the main community on LJ.

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NCIS Flashfiction Challenges

.:: ADMIN POST tattle tales challenge

.::ADMIN POST prompt suggestions

.:: ADMIN POST relaunch