rthstewart | 3 Sentence Ficathon

EDIT! THIS POST IS NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS, PLEASE POST NEW PROMPTS HERE!

CaramelSilver isn’t running the awesome 3 sentence ficathon this year, but she said I could do it in her place!! (Banner courtesy of CaramelSilver and thanks so much!)

What is the 3 Sentence Ficathon?
This is a challenge where you answer a prompt with a fic consisting of only three sentences. It's open to all fandoms and you can post and answer as many prompts as you like, as many times as you want.

What do I do?
You post prompts! When posting a prompt please format it this way:

fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence.

Only one prompt per comment please.

What else?
You answer other posters' prompts in three sentences (or more if you can't stop yourself) and fill as many prompts as you want, as many times as you wish. If you see that a prompt you loved has already been filled, go ahead and fill it again! Multiple fills of the same prompt allowed.

I'm not a member of Dreamwidth
No problem. You can comment anonymously or through open ID

Can anyone play?
Yes! Please pimp this to your flist, I'd like as many as possible to come and participate!

I'm cross-posting to LJ but we will keep all prompts and fills here, so they are in one awesome place (and with less spam).

Here's a link for spreading the word to all your friends and comms (thanks

snacky !)

How long can it go?
CaramelSilver kept the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon up for a month. I'd suggest closing it on Sunday, April 7, 2013. How does that sound? (edit: If we reach 5,000 comments sooner, I'll start a new one).

Are there any rules about cross-posting?
Nope, you can post wherever you want, whenever you want. Last year, a lot of folks collected their responses together and posted them on AO3 under the 3 sentence fiction tag.

Gosh who are all these people writing such great prompts and fills?
Good question! Come to the friending meme and introduce yourself if you like.

lady_songsmith explains, for the 2011 3 Sentence Ficathon,

grim_lupine created a delicious account to archive the 3 Sentence Ficathon.

lady_songsmith has reactivated the archive on delicious for this challenge, so, here is the account ~~(nothing current added yet, though~~): https://previous.delicious.com/3sentence She asks that if anyone would be willing to help knock down the backlog of the prolific-ness thus far, let her know!! (She adds: I know folks are kinda down on delicious with the changes, but, hey, it's an archive already set up with useful tags!)

On the subject of archiving, I really encourage people to collect and post their fills elsewhere. That way, we can find your work more easily again, redundancy is always good and it's really useful for future remixes and other challenges and gift exchanges you might participate in. I'll start a linking post so that if you do collect all your fills and post them on your own blog or an archive like AO3, you can give give us the link in comments.

edited March 12, 2013
edited March 13, 2013 to fix box coding problem (thanks to those who helped!) and to add link to friending meme
edited March 15, 2013 to add information on archiving.
edited March 24, 2013 to close post to new prompts.

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You really should! Although, ha, I know what you mean about giant books. I've got one of the Hitchhiker's Guide series that's been begging me to open it up and finish!

I should probably make Narnia my Easter reading project, I think ...

Hey, that's a good idea! It's handy that they're pretty short books, too.

Heh, that reminds me of the summer where I thought that it was a good idea to crawl up into the attic, find the boxes with my old books and re-read every single one of my old Enid Blytons ... they're short books too, but when you read 21 'Five' books in a row, it sort of gets to you. To say nothing of the Find-outers and Dog.

Hee, I spent a summer doing that with all my hardcover Nancy Drew books. My mom had a bunch and then Costco was selling them in sets of six and so I had basically all the original 32 or however many there were. That, coincidentally, just so happens to be the same summer my parents put a "one book a day" rule in play. :P

Yeah, uhm, when that Blyton thing happened to me I was 25-ish ... :P

And after you have uncovered the Problem of Susan, come back and we shall comfort you and rec you awesome fic.

There's a problem with Susan? Uh-oh, now I'm all a-wonder if I should really read it ...

3 Sentence Ficathon

Re: Narnia, Peter & Eustace, "would you say this was a usual day for you?"

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Re: Narnia, Peter & Eustace, "would you say this was a usual day for you?"

Re: Narnia, Peter & Eustace, "would you say this was a usual day for you?"

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