#fanfiction challenge

And with this, we are reaching the end of the High Holiday season!

Reminder that the Days of Awesome 2020 collection will be open for one more week, until the end of the Hebrew month of Tishrei! Get your works in! :)

We hope that everyone who observes Yom Kippur had a meaningful day!

Just a quick reminder that while the Days of Awe may be over the high holiday season isn’t, and the Days of Awesome 2020 collection will remain open through October 17, after the end of Simchat Torah!

There are no length requirements for fic–they can be as short or as long as you’d like, and you can submit as many pieces as you’d like! We have three up so far–would love to see more!

For some more info about the challenge and the rules, check out this post!

We hope everyone has a meaningful day, and that those fasting have a meaningful and/or easy fast. 

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Reminder that the Days of Awesome Jewish high holiday challenge is open for just under another three weeks. Still plenty of time to write lots of Jewish character fic–holiday inspired or not!

Add your own stories about Jewish characters to theDays of Awesome challenge collection on AO3, open until October 17! Learn more here.

Hi all! Three pieces are currently live on the Days of Awesome 2020 collection, each in a different fandom!

So far, we have the following Fandoms represented:

• Stranger Things
• The Old Guard
• Gravity Falls

The collection is open until October 17! Would love to see your work too!

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Learn more about the challenge and the rules here.

How is your writing coming?

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For more information about the challenge/rules, check out this post.

You can find the collection here, on ao3!

When you post a work, please add it to collection “DaysOfAwesome 2020 (5781).”

The collection will be open for one month!

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For more information about the challenge/rules, check out this post.

daysofawesome:

daysofawesome:

Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready! 

As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!  

As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.) 

A few prompts:

About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):

• Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
• Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
• There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?

Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)

• The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
• Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
• There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?

Get ready to write!

Reminder about these optional prompts, now that we are less than a week from the challenge opening!

Reblogging once more as as the Days of Awesome challenge opens tomorrow!!!!

Are you ready????

The challenge will remain open for a month!

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(Find out more about this Jewish Character fiction here!)

astudyingfangirl:

daysofawesome:

daysofawesome:

Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready! 

As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!  

As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.) 

A few prompts:

About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):

• Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
• Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
• There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?

Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)

• The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
• Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
• There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?

Get ready to write!

Reminder about these optional prompts, now that we are less than a week from the challenge opening!

So excited! Already recorded one podfic, seriously considering recording another

Whoo! We’re so excited to see what you’ve come up with, @astudyingfangirl!

Days of Awesome opens THIS THURSDAY! Are you ready??

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(For more information about the challenge check out this post.)

daysofawesome:

Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready! 

As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!  

As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.) 

A few prompts:

About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):

• Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
• Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
• There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?

Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)

• The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
• Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
• There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?

Get ready to write!

Reminder about these optional prompts, now that we are less than a week from the challenge opening!

How are you getting ready?

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(Check out this post to learn more about the challenge!)

daysofawesome:

Calling all Jewish fans, and and fans of Jewish characters!

Very excited to announce that Days of Awesome–a Jewish High Holiday ficathon originally launched in 2007, and which ran from 2007-2013, is back–just in time to kick-off the Hebrew year of 5781!

What is Days of Awesome?

Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.

Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.

We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!

How It Works

This year, we’re keeping it really casual.

We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (September 17, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 17)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!

You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!

And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.

What are the requirements for fic?

The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.

If they’re canonically Jewish–great!

If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.

If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games,or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.

If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.

All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.

Questions? 

We are here to help!

Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]

And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!

Hey all!

It’s come to our attention that we got the date a day off. Erev Rosh HaShana is on September 18, this year, not September 17.

Nonetheless, we are going to open the collection on September 17 (Erev Erev Rosh HaShana, if you will), for a few reasons:

1) Some people, especially those whose observances are more on the traditional side, may be scrambling to get ready for the holiday on September 18.

2) We want to keep the challenge open for a full month!

As always, feel free to drop us an ask or an email if you have any questions!

Shavuah Tov, friends! The Days of Awesome fic Challenge opens in 11 days! We hope you’re getting your writing muscles good and ready! 

As promised, we did want to provide a few prompts to help get you thinking about the spirit of the upcoming holidays!  

As a reminder, these prompts are entirely optional. You do not need to use any of them to participate in the challenge. (And, regardless of whether or not you use the prompts theother rules still apply.) 

A few prompts:

About the holidays themselves (potentially on the fluffy side):

• Characters go apple (or date!) picking (or honey harvesting!) to get ready for Rosh Hashanah
• Characters attempt to build a Sukkah. Shenanigans ensue.
• There is a Sukkot tradition that people have of inviting guests into their sukkah. This includes literal guests, but also figurative guest–biblical characters, ancestors, people who cannot be with them. Who is your character inviting into their sukkah?

Thematic prompts (potentially a bit more on the angsty side.)

• The Days of Awe are a period of repentance, culminating in Yom Kippur–the Day of Atonement. Write about your character and repentance.
• Rosh HaShana is a period of renewal and rebirth–new beginnings. Write about your character and rebirth, their new beginnings.
• There is a Rosh HaShana tradition people have of Tashlich–which involves casting bread crumbs into the water to symbolize things about the previous year you like to cast away. What is your character trying to cast away?

Get ready to write!

daysofawesome:

We’d love to highlight a few of them as we get closer to the challenge!

(Check out our blog to learn more about Days of Awesome, and follow for updates!)

Shavuah Tov! Reblog with your favorite canonical Jewish characters! We’re going to start highlighting some of them this upcoming week in preparation for the Days of Awesome challenge!

Start stretching those writing muscles! The Days of Awesome challenge will be here before you know it!

Calling all Jewish fans, and and fans of Jewish characters!

Very excited to announce that Days of Awesome–a Jewish High Holiday ficathon originally launched in 2007, and which ran from 2007-2013, is back–just in time to kick-off the Hebrew year of 5781!

What is Days of Awesome?

Days of Awesome is a annual Jewish character ficathon in honor of the Jewish high holiday season.

Originally founded by Livejournal user jadelennox in 2007, the goal of this project is to create a venue for fans of all backgrounds to write fic about Jewish characters and their Jewish identities–which are all-too-often under-represented in canon and fanon, and, when they are represented, they’re often represented as Jewish in name only.

We’re also here because while we love other holiday fic challenges, they so frequently don’t correspond with holidays that are important on the Jewish calendar. We wanted to change that with a festive little celebration around the Jewish holiday season!

How It Works

This year, we’re keeping it really casual.

We’ll have a collection on Archive of Our Own that will open on Erev Rosh HaShana (September 17, this year), and stay open through the Hebrew month of Tishrei (until October 17)–a length which spans the entire Jewish high holiday season, and includes the holidays of Rosh HaShana, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Sheminei Atzeret, and Simchat Torah!

You can feel free to upload any fic, ficlet, or podfic that you write that fits the requirements to the collection within that time frame. Please just tag it with the tag Community: daysofawesome!

And, if all goes according to plan, we’ll have a few optional prompts too, peppered and shared throughout the month.

What are the requirements for fic?

The only firm requirement is that your focal character be Jewish.

If they’re canonically Jewish–great!

If they’re not canonically Jewish, that’s okay too. But we would ask that if it is a situation in which you headcanon a particular character as Jewish, or are writing an AU in which they are Jewish, you please make the fic about their Jewishness.

If you have a Jewish OC that you want to write about–if, for instance, you want to explore what it would be like to be a Jewish character in the world of the Hunger Games,or His Dark Materials–go for it! Again, we would just ask that the fic be about that character’s (or those characters’) Jewish experiences.

If you wanted to be extra festive and seasonal, you could write about some of the characters celebrating one of the seasonal holiday, or a fic on one of the themes that is explored throughout one of these days.

All fandoms are game, and there are no length requirements, and you can upload as many pieces as you’d like within the month.

Questions? 

We are here to help!

Check out our FAQ, or feel free to drop us an ask ,or send us an email at [email protected]

And if you’re interested, please signal boost! We’d love to spread this far and wide!