Secret FicFan Santa 2023! Festive stories event!

🖖🏻 Greetings, authors and readers! Winter Holidays season is upon us. You can smell it in the air. And a great battle between Secret FicFan Santa and evil Writer's Block has begun once again.

💫 If you have a festive plot idea that can suit any fandom, paring and type, don't hesitate to send it to Secret FicFan Santa! He will read all your ideas, sort them, carefully wrap them up and put them in his big sack. Any author who wants to participate in the event will get a chance to try their luck and receive a festive plot idea directly from Secret FicFan Santa!

Here is the link for those who want to share their festive plot ideas!

❄ Wait for the news about Secret FicFan Santa's sack of festive plot ideas. You will receive a festive plot idea that you can use to write your story;

❄ Put the text of the plot idea you’ve received in the description of your work or notes so that the person who submitted the idea could easily find it;

❄ You can publish your works from the very moment you receive the festive plot idea from Secret FicFan Santa's sack. The event will take place from the 18th of December to the 8th of January;

👑 Coins for participation in the event will be distributed over the period of the 9th and 10th of January in the order of confirmation form submission.

❗ If you have any questions, you can always send them to our official account for events. Drop a message to FicFest account;

❗ RULES OF THE EVENT

Work requirements:

✅ The work you submit must be a new one (i.e., not published on FicFan previously). However, you may transfer your works from other websites if you are the author and these works match the festive plot idea you have received;

✅ Your work should be based on the festive plot idea you have received from Secret FicFan Santa and marked with a special event tag. We welcome all fandoms, original stories, types and tags;

✅ You can work with co-authors, betas and gammas, but only the author who submits the confirmation form will get the coins;

✅ You may choose any rating you like;

✅ If you want to write more than one work, you may use Secret FicFan Santa's sack again and get another festive plot idea. IMPORTANT! You can get 250 coins only once per this event;

✅ If you don't like the festive plot idea you have received, you can trade it with other authors participating in the event, or you can ask for another one from Secret FicFan Santa;

✅ Only finished works based on the festive plot ideas qualify for this event. However, after the event is over you may feel free to continue the story if you wish;

✅ Сollaborative writing teams are welcome to participate. You may also publish a collection of drabbles with all the festive plots you get. Each plot should be published as a separate chapter. To get the coins you should submit the link to the chapter under your authorship;

✅ You may publish your a translation on condition you have original author’s permission for that and the original text matches your festive plot idea;

✅ You may choose an existing Request to base your work on as long as your work revolves around the festive plot idea you received;

✅ If you change your mind about participating in the event, don't have enough time for it, don't feel inspired enough by the festive plot idea you received, and can't find another one you fancy, we fully understand and respect that. Don't get upset! You'll have more luck next time!

There's no penalty if you decide against participating. You don't need to explain anything. We know that the creative process is not something you can control. If you are withdrawing from the event, please, refrain from submitting the confirmation form.

🎁 All the authors participating in the event should publish their works by January 8th with a special event tag Secret FicFan Santa 2023. Send us THE CONFIRMATION FORM and you will receive a gift of 250 coins!

The coins will be distributed over the period of the 9th and 10th of January.

🎉 We hope that our readers will get a lot of wonderful festive stories to enjoy! Don't forget to subscribe to FicFest blog to get all the information about events on the website for readers and authors!

🚫 It is prohibited to:

🚫 Assign a special event tag to the works that were published before the event (doesn't apply to the works in drafts that weren't published previosly);

🚫 Assign a special event tag to the works that will be published after the event;

🚫 Assign a special event tag to the works that don't comply with the rules of the event;

🚫 Publish works that violate the rules of our website (otherwise, you will be banned).

Works that violate the abovementioned rules will be deleted.

❗ If you have any questions, you can always send them to our official account for events. Drop a message to FicFest account;

❄ May the festive spirit and inspiration be with you!