So hopefully by now you all have your assignments. The archive is now open! Assignments are due between now and 10pm (Pacific Standard Time) 9 November 2013. Stories will be revealed 10am (PST) 12 November 2013, or whenever it occurs that everyone has a story.

While you're plotting, take a moment to read over these notes. Just a few logistical things I want to cover.

Dear Author Letters
Hopefully you have already finished your letter. Hopefully you have already unlocked your letter. If you haven't, and your author contacts me, you may get a modly e-mail on that topic.

You are not required to write a letter, though it is encouraged. Putting your letter comments in the optional details box is a totally valid way to do things. However, if you've not written any optional details, and not written a letter, and your author contacts me, you may get a modly e-mail asking for prompts/likes/squicks.

Please, in your letters, do not rank pairings or fandoms. That looks like: "Susan/Ravi is my favourite, and I really want fic for them! If you can't write that, I guess Ravi/Ming would be okay." Or something of that kind. It's a good way to make whoever signed up for Ravi/Ming feel like shit. It's also against the rules. We all have preferences, but try to be considerate, eh?

We have a spreadsheet tracking letters. Please consider adding yours to it if you haven't already, especially if you didn't have time to link to your letter in your sign up. Authors: check that list before e-mailing me about letters. It should be alphabetical by AO3 user name. Even if you have included your letter in your sign up, it's good to post it there, as some people read letters when they're looking for people for whom to write treats.


Treats
The archive is open. I'm not making a second collection for treats, as I find less people read them when that happens, and everyone should read all the treats! Please post your treats to the main archive.

However, if you're writing a treat under 1000 words, please wait to post it until after sign ups are due. (9 November). Any and all treats over 1k are wonderful at any time.

For your treat-writing pleasure, I will be making all requests visible three weeks before reveal (22 October)

Please finish your main assignment before working on treats.


Beta List, Defaulting, Pinch Hit List
The beta list is here. Consider adding your name to it. Also, use it to find a beta. Everyone should have included their AO3 names, so it'll be easy to make sure you're not asking your recipient to beta read their own fic.

No one has defaulted yet, but they will. Most fests have a 10-25% default rate, which is just the way it goes, death of muses and the revenge of real life happen. If you're going to default, please do it early to that your pinch hitter will have lots of time to write your recip a story (and especially do it before 5 November, which is the no penalty default date, but earlier is better). Unfortunately, if you default and then your author also defaults, I will not find a pinch hitter for you, and you might not get a story.

If you're interested in pinch hitting (which is what we need to happen when someone defaults), please join the pinch hit group. You have to have a gmail account, and need to change your group settings to e-mail you whenever a post is made. If you don't have a gmail account, you can still check the group for updates and claim pinch hits; I'll try to post notice here when they go out.