Cam Mitchell ficathon?

[bluflamingo]

So, because I have the will-power of a weak willed newt, I've sort of agreed to run a Cam Mitchell ficathon (blame kazbaby, she suggested it). The idea being that, having come late to SG1, there's a lack of 'trope' fic for Mitchell (aliens make them do it, slavery, amnesia, gender swap, mpreg etc), and that this is a terrible travesty which must be rectified.

Which, you know, it's not like we need *less* fic about the guy.

So, my questions are:
-Dreamwidth, livejournal, or both?
-Got any more suggestions for tropes, other than this list
-Would you prefer it to be an exchange, where people list pairings and tropes and I match you, or a prompt-based thing, where people pick their trope and then write whatever pairing/gen appeals to them?

I'm thinking sign-ups would open end of next week for about a week, and the deadline would be end of September, maybe?

Thoughts? Suggestions? Enthusiastic declarations of intent to write epic Cam Mitchell wing fic (you know you want to! If only so I don't end up doing it)

Comments

[bluflamingo]

Are you thinking of soliciting prompts (scenarios, etc.) to be combined with the tropes, or just giving writers a trope (and possibly a pairing) and setting them loose?

If it's prompt based rather than an exchange, I'm thinking they'll sign up for a particular trope of their choice and then they can write whatever pairing/scenario they like, as long as the pairing has Cam in it. If it's an exchange, it'll have to be more detailed, people would need to at least offer pairings/characters they'd like to see/write about, or people would end up with a trope they liked and a pairing they hated. Which makes me think prompt based, cos that just souds so much easier!

[skieswideopen]

I haven't seen anyone express a strong preference for an exchange-based ficathon yet, so I think you're safe in making it prompt-based. And mirroring the masterlist on both sites probably makes sense. I don't know how you'd do the trope-claiming post, though, if you plan on limiting the number of people who can writ each trope. (Which, I suppose, you don't necessarily have to do. There are lots of ways to write most of those tropes.)

[bluflamingo]

I don't know how you'd do the trope-claiming post, though, if you plan on limiting the number of people who can writ each trope.

No, I don't either. Maybe I can wait until happy fest put their's up and steal their idea, if they have prompt claiming. Though, I mean, people can comment anonymously at either site, so there could be one claims post, and people claim and give their dw and/or lj name in their claim. Which might be the solution.

[skieswideopen]

Last year, Happy Fest let multiple people write the same prompt, so I don't think it matters so much to them. Of course, there's no rule against you taking the same approach.

But yeah, if you want to limit it to one person per trope, then having just one claims post probably makes sense. People can comment anonymously, as you said, or with OpenID.