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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