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Hokay, friendslist, so I can't sleep and this is the thing, when I can't sleep my brain does terrible things. Tonight, what it started to do was complain to me about the serious lack of Young Wizards fanfic out there on the net (okay, so everyone who knows me knows this is something my brain does a lot. Shut up.) At various points in time pretty much everyone I've approached about this has told me, with differing degrees of niceness*, that if I want fanfic- especially outside ffn.net aka The Pit of Doom, which I do- I need to do it myself.

This is true, and people may be afraid to know that I have henceforth sloooowly started writing a piece of fanfiction (masses flee, run away, etc.) Never mind. But what I also want to do, in my fevered, slightly nauseous state**, is run a YW-fic challenge, probably based around livejournal. I would initially recruit participants (read: victims) through

youngwizards but would most likely create an offshoot community where I would base it- possibly on the premise of a general ficcing community which also ran challenges. There would be banners and stuff (it's all an excuse to play with Photoshop.)

So what I want to know is: how many of you are in emergent fandoms, or have been? How did ficcing momentum start? How can I do it? If I do do a challenge, and manage to drum up enough people (say, ten?) to get started on it, what kind of challenge would be a good challenge? I could do the get-everyone-to-list-an-idea then stick the list up and let everyone have at them for a bit; alternatively I could do one challenge and have everyone meet it, in which case, what would be a good idea for that challenge? (I'm looking for general format reccomendations here, because most of you have not read these books. But I think I can say that a lot of fics would be either gen or G, if that gives you any idea.)

And, the big question: how many of you would sign up for a challenge? Strictly low-pressure, long deadlines, easy extension, not too complicated, first-time writers welcome (hey, I'll write in it, that's how much I beolieve in accepting everyone)... I know there are people on my flist who have read YW and not thought of ficcing for it, ever; I know there are people on my flist who have ficced it (Yay,

persephone_kore! Who's not around this week. Never mind.) And most importantly, and this, trust me, is the group I will totally be ganging up on: I know there are people out there who have read Young Wizards, and have ficced in other fandoms. I'M LOOKING AT YOU,

sixth_light. You people, I'm begging you, MY FANDOM NEEDS YOU. I don't care if you join and write one challenge fic and then skip out on the fandom, but please just write one tiny fic for me, I don't care how long (although, like, preferably not drabbles. But I'll take drabbles, that's how desperate I am.)

People, I am hungering after input, here. I love this fandom and I want it to grow. I'm probably totally nuts and it'll never work but I absolutely have to try, and that means, you know, doing something about it. SO. Please just consider it?

And just so you know, if you're on my f-list and I know you've read the books, don't think you can escape by not commenting on this post because I will track you down.

spiderfish,

gooseberry107 (and where are you, anyway, Ella?) ,

sennical,

rysade: I am coming after you and I am going to ask you to write in a challenge. You can, of course, refuse- there's basically no point if I make everyone sign up and then no-one wants to write- but the idea of a challenge is to encourage fic from people who wouldn't necessarily have done it by themselves. And if I can encourage that by chatting up my friends, I can and I will do it. You're warned.

I'll also be lj-stalking anyone I've seen on fanfiction.net. Just so you know you won't be alone. :P

Oh! and! Forgot to say! Will probably also take fanart, anything.

*but mostly very nice. This is a generally lovely fandom.
**Nothing to do with fandom, although maybe why I can't sleep

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...Anakin the elder? Do we have more than one Anakin? Did I not get enough sleep last night?

(*grumble* I like the prequels, but I'm not sure it would be in character for Dairine to do so, which makes it really hard to bring up the YW/SW connection. Even though Peach said she was a Jedi. */grumble*)

Er. well. If you've read any of the post-original series novelistations, which OF COURSE I have not, AT ALL, even a little bit, ever, then you know that Han and Leia have a bunch of kids and call one of them Anakin. And then I think he dies later on, but I don't know because I realyl didn't read that far. >.>

(I think Dairine would hate them, I have to say. There's a rather cute little fic on ffn.net on that premise, actually- Ethics (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2367008/1/). funny. :D but dairine!Sw fic would be GREAT.)

Oh, right, him.

I liked the kids, actually. But if they kill off little-Anakin, I'm ignoring them. Hmph.

I'd like to think Dairine has better taste than that. ;) But considering what she liked about the originals, she might not enjoy seeing How Everything Went Wrong.

*grinning* I fortunately never got too emotionally involved, mostly because of the little voice at the back of my head that kept saying Star Wars books omg what noooo.

Well, I personally harbour a vehement dislike for Clones, am negative towards PM, and... haven't yet seen Sith, so who knows?

*shrugs* I picked up a few of the books. Some were fun, although they had their weird points. I really liked the ones about Jaina and Jacen for a while, but then... I don't know, I got the feeling the authors decided it was time to be gloomy. But I vaguely remember picking up some of the Zahn ones and being Very Bored, whereas when I watched Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones I was not Very Bored, so the movies are winning. ;)

:P Well, yeah, even the early movies win over the books, I think.

Funny thing is, I vaguely remember some concepts from the books that don't sound as if they ought to be boring, but apparently they didn't go over well.

On the other hand, I did enjoy Shadows of the Empire.

"Do you mean that asteroid field directly in front of us, Commander?"