Some links for you

[clare_dragonfly]

Here's an interesting blog post about starting scenes with dialogue, and why you shouldn't, or at least you should give it some thought: http://talktoyouniverse.blogspot.com/2011/06/can-you-begin-with-dialogue.html

There's a cool fic exchange, apocalyptothon, going on at AO3. (There's an LJ comm for it, but the actual exchange seems to be at AO3.) In case you couldn't guess from the name, it's an exchange for apocalyptic fic! Signups are here and tomorrow is the last day. It's limited to only certain fandoms, presumably to make matching easier, but most popular fandoms are on there. Plus, if you request NCIS, Criminal Minds, Warehouse 13, or Harry Potter fic, you might get a fic written by me! That would be awesome :D

Finally, if you're not watching junetide, why the heck not? Posting started Monday (okay, technically it started Tuesday but pippin is in Australia and I saw the first post on Monday), and there's a lot of awesome stuff up already, with plenty more to come--both art and fiction. There's been all kinds of genres, too, so I think there's something for everyone.

Comments

[d_generate_girl]

Thank you for linking to Apocalyptothon! I was wondering if they were going to run it this year, and I almost missed signups.

[clare_dragonfly]

Oh, glad I was helpful! :D I found it via fandom_of_one, which is unfortunately bad at linking to LJ from DW (I guess it's the cross-posting) but is otherwise pretty awesome.

[syntaxofthings]

Watching junetide, well that looks like it'll take all of my day! xD I'll check it out.

[clare_dragonfly]

Oh, haha, yeah, there's going to be a lot of art and fic! I think there are over twenty participants and I'm sure there will be plenty of treats as well. I've been opening each one in a tab and reading through them as I can... pretty much the same as I do with any other online fiction.

[ex_pippin880]

34 people signed up!

(Then some disappeared.)

Unless there's a sudden influx of treats, I think we'll end up with 40 or so posts. :)

[clare_dragonfly]

Yay, that is a good number of posts! :D

[st_aurafina]

Junetide has been so good so far!