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burninghoneyatdusk · 4 years ago

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fic writer asks

Tagged by @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold, thanks love! 💛

Name(s)?

burninghoneyatdusk (ao3 & tumblr)

burnhoneydusk (twitter)

Fandom(s)?

Only t100 right now but I might write six of crows/kanej in the future, especially if the shadow & bone show is any good

Where you post? AO3

Most popular multi-chapter (by kudos)?

All Because of You

When Clarke gets knocked up at 18 by her best friend's brother, her plans for the future go down the drain. She never would have guessed that seven years later, her and Bellamy would be successfully co-parenting their daughter as best friends. Best friends - nothing more, nothing less. Clarke has never let herself entertain the thought of anything more - she knows where Bellamy's stood since the beginning. It's time for her to move on, once and for all.

When Bellamy gets Clarke pregnant, he feels like he's ruined her life. He makes a promise to himself that he'll make sure his daughter and Clarke have the lives they both deserve- and he's sure Clarke deserves a hell of a lot more than him. He thinks he's done a good job pushing away his feelings for her for the last seven years, but when Clarke gets engaged, he wonders if he's made a mistake. He wonders if it's too late.

I’m really proud of this fic & how much people actually liked it, which I wasn’t at all expecting when I started. I just finished it this past week after over a year of working on it which is an awesome feeling. It also won best modern au, best parenthood, best angst (WIP), and tied for best smut (WIP) in the 2020 Bellarke Fic Writer Awards (@bellarkeficawards) which was awesome 💙

Favourite story you’ve written so far?

Voices in the Water

In an attempt at establishing a more permanent peace between Trikru and Azgeda, Heda negotiates an arranged marriage between Trikru King Bellamy and Azgeda Princess Clarke, the dutiful niece of Queen Nia.

If only they knew that the princess spends her nights as the feared assassin Wanheda, the queen’s secret weapon and a wanted legend among the clans.

If only they knew that the queen has no intention of establishing peace with Trikru.

If only they knew the Trikru King is Wanheda’s next target.

I’m loving this story/most proud of it in that I think I’ve paid more attention to my prose that I usually do, as well as having a more cohesive plot that is more than a rom com style plot (which I love! but that’s are my usual style and it’s fun to do something different). It will also probably be the most angsty thing I’ve written which is exciting for me, but maybe not so much for the readers 😅 This fic also won best canon (WIP), best grounder au, and best arranged marriage au in the 2020 Bellarke Fic Writer Awards (@bellarkeficawards), which I was really grateful for 💙

Fic you were nervous to post?

Made Your Mark On Me, A Golden Tattoo

As her professor, Bellamy knows his relationship with Clarke has to stay professional. The brief moment he shared with her has to stay where it belongs - in the past. But when another guy in class starts to show an interest in Clarke, Bellamy realizes that he’s not so sure he’s okay with that. He’s not so sure he’s okay with Clarke being anybody’s girl but his.

This was also prompted for @t100fic-for-blm and while it’s definitely the type of fic I love to read and I also wrote exclusively explicit fics at this point anyway, this was definitely the dirtiest fic I’ve written re: the smut, the kinks, and the fact it’s a teacher-student relationship. Thankfully people liked it and there’s a sequel on my prompt list now.

How do you choose your titles?

Almost exclusively song lyrics because my creativity goes out the window when it’s time to pick a title lol. 12 of my 15 fics have song lyric titles.

Do you outline?

Yes but it isn’t a linear/neat process. I start with idea dumping general plot bullet points and then later go back and organize it into an outline by chapter. However, I don’t think I’ve ever waited until I finished an outline before I started posting, and that’s partly because more often than not I don’t know where I want the story to go until I start writing it, and I often come up with more scene ideas while writing.

Complete works? 12

In-progress works? 4

Coming soon/not yet started?

You can check out my full prompt list (i.e. what’s on my list and coming up) here! This includes both new prompts and WIP update requests prompted via @t100fic-for-blm.

I keep it updated as I post or as things change (getting ahead or falling behind expected publication dates), so if you’re wondering when I’m going to post or update something, that’s the place to go!

Prompts?

I only accept prompts via @t100fic-for-blm and even then I’ve paused accepting new prompts until I catch up on the ones I have now - 16 😅, which you can check out above.

However, I AM currently accepting prompts for WIP updates via the BLM initiative right now. The thought behind that is that I need to get those fics done regardless, so in a sense I’m leaving it up to the readers to prioritize which fics they want to see updated first or most (I publish my prompts in the order I receive them). These WIPs are:

Voices in the Water

Chasin’ You

Let Your Heart Beat Here

To prompt me for a WIP update via @t100fic-for-blm, you submit it via this google form! If you’re unfamiliar with the initiative, check out our linked tumblr above or our carrd, which has all our info in one place!

There are so many awesome writers and creators participating and we accept prompts for all t100 ships and characters, so if you’ve ever wanted something written this is a great venue to do so! Additionally, if you’d like to prompt us but don’t have an idea in mind, our participants put together this prompt idea board for both fics and fanart.

This was so fun so tagging a bunch, but srry for repeats & feel free to ignore! 💙

#bellarke #bellarke fanfiction #bellarke fanfic #the 100 fanfiction #t100fic4blm #burninghoneyatdusk #my fics #all because of you #the graduation pact #voices in the water #made your mark on me

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kinetic-elaboration · 3 years ago

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100 Days of Writing: Day Forty

I’m getting really lazy about this lol. Today’s entry: the answers to a few random questions that have spoken to me, from days I skipped.

Project courtesy of @the-wip-project. Tagging fellow participants @she-who-the-river-could-not-hold, @thelittlefanpire, @hopskipaway, @easilydistractedbyfanfic, @dylanobrienisbatman @fontainebleau22.

This got VERY verbose, sorry....!

Day 34: Do you prefer to write fluff or angst?

Funny story. I once had a fic nominated in the Best Angst Category in a fandom fic awards event. The nomination was, of course, flattering, but also really confusing, because I didn’t think the fic was particularly angsty. It wasn’t super fluffy either. It...just was? It was a basic strangers-to-lovers modern AU somewhere in the 7k range, and the main ship was endgame. There was a period where half of the main ship was dating someone else, but that was mostly mentioned in passing during a time skip; most of the actual content was the endgame couple talking/flirting/pining, and, again, they did get together in the end.

The nomination made me reconsider what I think ‘fluff’ and ‘angst’ are and what my relationships are to the genres. I feel like a lot of my work is neither.

Some types of stories are obviously one or the other. MCD and/or illness is angst. Hurt/comfort is angst. Romantic stories where the characters don’t end up together are, generally, angst. Romantic stories where the characters DO end up together but only after considerable obstacles can be angst, also--which might have been the rationale behind nominating the above fic in ‘angst’ although, again, it was only 7k. It’s one thing to have a 300k+ story where the main characters pine for each other, wallow in their feelings, fight, feel jealousy, etc, and the finally kiss in the final chapter--I’ve done that, too. A shorter story is a different beast.

Fluff, to me, is a genre of stories without (significant) conflict. The point is you feel good reading them. Romantic stories with established couples, or first date stories, are fluff. Slice of life or ‘curtain’ fic is fluff. Holiday fic with a found family feel is fluff.

I’ve written some stories that clearly fall into one of these two genres, sometimes because the challenge I’m doing or request I’m fulfilling calls for it, and sometimes because I need a palette cleanser after writing the opposite type of fic.

Another place I’ve thought about genre is with Troped, but I don’t always feel confident in the stories I’ve written there, in terms of theme. The very, very first round had a Fluff theme but I wasn’t sure if my story was fluffy (I’m still not). It had a happy ending and the final scene was decidedly cute, but the characters came from angsty backgrounds, and some of the early scenes had, imo, a melancholy feel. Then one of the 2020 Madness rounds had an Angst theme. I tried to fit my entry into that genre by giving it a general feeling of helplessness and an ambiguous, dreary ending. I think it was angsty, but it wasn’t as... hardcore angsty? as some of the other entries. I also picked the theme “angst” for one of my Choice fics and that one was decidedly angsty, both in the specific-trope sense--it dealt with the aftermath of a major character death--and in the more general ‘mood’ sense. The main relationship wasn’t repaired at the end, and the ending was ambiguous.

I feel like for every fic I’ve written that’s decidedly fluffy or decidedly angsty, and I could give examples of both, I’ve written one or more that isn’t really either. Again, most of the time, unless I have a specific reason to think ‘time to write angst’ or ‘time to write fluff,’ I don’t go into an idea thinking it should be one or the other. I usually have a mood I want, but it might not be simple to categorize.

ALL that said... I think if I had to pick one, it would be angst. I don’t like truly unhappy endings, but I’ve done a decent number of ambiguous endings. It’s also easier for me to think of stories I’ve written that I think are fairly categorized as angst than stories that are clearly fluff. Third, I love writing about pining, and longing, and missing, and needing, and these are not ‘fluffy’ feelings. But most importantly, like I said, I think ‘fluff’ is a type of story that has minimal-to-zero conflict in it and I actually find those VERY hard to write. Maybe We Will is probably the fluffiest thing I’ve written (4k of a first date at a carnival) and my biggest challenge was figuring out: what are these people going to DO?

This isn’t an insult to fluff at all. Fluff writers have a real talent for creating a pleasant narrative, and I like reading outright fluff more than reading outright angst. But for me, there is a lot more flexibility outside of fluff, whether or not the resulting narrative is truly “angsty” or not. It might not have the primary goal of making you feel sad, but it probably doesn’t have the primary goal of making you feel happy either.

Day 37: Post your favorite line of dialogue that you’ve written recently.

Skimmed the Sleeping Beauty AU for this one. As soon as I’m asked to think about dialogue I like, I wonder if I’ve ever written good dialogue in my life! Lol. You think about it too much and it all sounds fake. Here’s an exchange I think is pretty good (perhaps just in comparison to a lot of the Really Rough Writing that surrounds it...).

"That sounded like it went pretty well," she says, as she balances awkwardly against the wall, pulling on her boots. "From what I could hear."

Bellamy shrugs. He's scanning the crowd, glancing over at her impatiently when she stumbles, trying to tie her laces without bothering to kneel. "Roma doesn't ask a lot of questions."

Clarke snorts. "Yes, she does. What you really mean is, she asks a lot of questions, then gets distracted whenever you turn on the charm."

"Yeah, sure. My well-known charm."

Clarke lets her foot fall heavily to the ground again, straightens up and pushes her hair back from her face. "If you weren't flirting and being charming, what were you doing?"

Bellamy hesitates, a light, embarrassed pink spreading across his cheeks, and Clarke rises up on her toes triumphantly, trying to lean into his space. "I should have gotten more ration points," he says, barely more than a grumble, and Clarke laughs and pulls her hat down over her head. Then she picks up the jacket, slips it on, and steps purposefully in front of him.

"How do I look?"

Day 38: What comes first, plot or characters?

Well, I write fanfiction, so I feel like this is a tricky question to define. My current fandom does have a lot of characters though, so it is possible to have a general idea of a plot but not know who to put in it. That’s happened to me on a few occasions I think, but generally speaking... I think the two come simultaneously?

When I’m writing for Troped, it’s easier to start with the plot because certain elements of the challenge suggest (or require) a plot but never the characters to go in it. So sometimes I do work from plot --> characters there. It’s usually pretty seamless in that the plot-idea usually comes with at least some idea of the characters, but sometimes there’s ambiguity--for example, deciding to include Bellamy in Mad Women when he wasn’t initially supposed to be in it, which ended up changing/defining the story quite a bit. Another example is Mountain Lion Mean, where I knew right away what the general plot would be but waffled a bit about precisely which characters would be in it and to what degree.

Other challenges often define the characters first and so then by definition that’s where I start. For example, a Bellarke challenge obviously requires you to write about Bellarke, but depending on the other rules, the plot may come entirely from each individual writer without any additional prompting.

If it’s a wholly original/spontaneous idea.... it either is necessarily about plot and characters at once (ex: AU where X character is in Y place or examination of Z ship in a modern AU) or it comes as nothing but Mood. That mood might have elements of plot and bits of character but the best way I can describe it is that I develop both at once. For example, my Southern Gothic AU came to me as certain elements--a character who does X, a relationship with Y feel, Z ship--and I’m working on combining all of those into a narrative. Or, as another example, I currently have a vague desire to write something with a Slow Summer Vibe but I have no idea what it will be about or who will be in it.

But again, it’s often “I want to write an angsty Jonty AU” or “hmm what about a Bravenlarke fic particularly about being in a poly relationship” or “this song makes me picture Bellarke at the beach; let’s write that”--ideas that essentially capture both character and plot at once.

I don’t know if I’m doing a good job of describing this but I write so much for challenges and events that I don’t have a huge pool of data for ‘spontaneous ideas’ to analyze.

Day 40: How do you start a new story?

I feel like I kind of already answered this in the last question. The very first step is an Idea, obviously. That would either come, in part, from the challenge or event I’m participating in or the request I’m filling, or it arrives by itself from some bit of inspiration: a song, a thought about a certain character or relationship, a mood I’m feeling and want to capture, etc.

But I feel like this question is about what happens with the idea.

Most (though not all) of the time, I start with a process of brainstorming and outlining. I’ve talked about this elsewhere, but I start by just sitting down with a notebook and writing down my thoughts, in a conversational style--basically like these posts. I write down any images I have, any plot points that have already come to me, etc. Everything I know. Then I brainstorm some more elements, filling in all the stuff I don’t know. Then I distill the plot down to discrete plot points: an outline of the whole fic in order. What needs to happen and in what order? The outline is generally organized by scene, though it’s flexible: sometimes scenes can be combined; sometimes they need to be split. Sometimes I need to re-evaluate the outline later, but most stories are simple enough that this initial outline works for the whole writing process.

I always write in order. I cannot write out of order. I need to immerse myself in the narrative and that means that events follow logically from each other. Also, sometimes what I come up with in the moment in scene 1 can change what I want to happen in scene 5--not so drastically that I’m re-writing the outline, but drastically enough that I would have to rewrite scene 5 if it were already done. That’s too complicated for me. I think there are probably advantages, in terms of amount of fun to be had, as well as in capturing ideas before they disappear from your brain, in writing scenes as the spirit moves you rather than in order, but I just can’t do it. That’s not how my mind works.

In order to start a fic, or even a new scene, I need to know HOW it starts and some idea of how I will describe that opening image/event/whatever. I often practice this for days before I actually write. For example, I’m going to write another Sleeping Beauty scene soon and I know it starts with Clarke hearing conversation behind her, so I’ve been practicing what that dialogue might be and how I might describe her listening while looking at something else. When I have a strong sense of the opening and a decent sense of the rest--what needs to happen to move along the plot--I just start writing. I do most of my writing as sprints.

Sometimes I write without an outline, and it’s basically the same process as the last paragraph, except I only have the opening and a vague sense of what’s to come. I don’t do that often anymore. But I started a couple outline-less fics last summer when I was just desperate to break my block and didn’t really feel like planning and stuff. I just wanted to get words on a page. Thus I have a couple WIPs that are about 1,200 words long and then just abruptly reach a cliff’s edge and stop!! I don’t know if I’ll outline or not before I return to them but right now I’m thinking not.

#100 days of writing #100daysofwriting #my 100 days of writing #wowow this was long #i got so verbose #i slept too much and now i'm wired lol #hope to actually write tomorrow but who even knows............

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thelittlefanpire · 5 years ago

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Goodbye, 2019!

Everyone seems to be doing End of the Year Posts! It looks like I’ve finished posting content for the year so here is mine!! (I’ll be working on my BJJ fic for Jan tho) This year was really crappy for me personally, but I accomplished so much fandomwise! I wrote a ton, made some awesome moodboards, and discovered a lot of new fanfic writers and friends! #MostTalentedFandom

Published Stories: 13 (12 for The 100 + 1 for HP)

Total Word Count: 90k (including all my fics, drabbles, and unpublished stuff) p.s. last year I was at 50k!

Events:

The 100 Ladies Appreciation Week

Bellarke January Joy (Nominated for a bfwa fluff award)

Harper McIntyre Appreciation Week

Bellarke Secret Valentines

CHOPPED

Bellarke Boards

After so many years of fic writing, I finally wrote my first smut fic and it was nominated in the BFWA After Dark Awards!

My Favorite Lines

But the Chopped Challenge has seriously been my greatest accomplishment this year and I want to thank Bailey for being my person! It was a lot of hard work and took up a lot of time, but it was so worth it! @chopped100challenge @dylanobrienisbatman

Can't wait to continue writing, hosting more Chopped, reading all the fics, and seeing the very end of this show we’ve all come to love (or hate)! In Spain because that’s still happening and I can't believe it.

Hello, 2020!

#sara speaks #2019 #proud of myself #love yourself 2k19 #goals #tlfyearreviews

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Semi-Final Voting is Open!

Voting in the Semi-Final round for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020 is now open.

This poll will close on October 15, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC. Winners will be announced on October 17, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC.

You can select up to two (2) fics in each category to move onto the next round. The Top Two (2) fics in each category will move onto the Final Round.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Round 1 Voting is Open!

Voting in Round 1 for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020 is now open. This poll will close on September 21, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC. Winners will be announced on September 23, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Nominations Are Open!

Nominations for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020 are now open. They will close on September 5, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC (one week away)!

When nominating:

Be sure to pay attention to what category you are nominating a fic for! This is especially relevant in Section 1: Genre with the WORD COUNTS. E.g. Best Canon Fic (Less than 10,000 Words) and Best Canon Fic (More than 10,000 Words) are NOT the same category and are not interchangeable.

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All fics that are nominated and found to be eligible (for both word count and posting date) will move on to the first round of voting.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Round 2 Voting is Open!

Voting in Round 2 for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020 is now open. This poll will close on September 27, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC. Winners will be announced on September 29, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Category voting is now open!

The feedback on the crowdsourcing survey was enormous and we thank you for that. Because of the response...

We have decided to host the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020!

To kick off these awards, we have opened category voting. Please read below.

Category voting is where you choose what you would like to see in the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020! After this poll closes, the most popular categories will be selected for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020.

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The survey is open until August 25 (11:59PM UTC).

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You can select multiple categories per section (read the instructions in each question to see how many categories you can select).

To ensure there is a large variety of categories, your suggestions have been broken into multiple sections on this form. This does not necessarily reflect how sections will look for fic nominations/voting.

To aid in your selection of categories: fics are eligible if posted after August 1, 2019. This is done to keep the voting process manageable.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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2020 Categories

Section 1: Genre

Best Canon Fic (Less than 10,000 Words)

Best Canon Fic (More than 10,000 Words)

Best Canon Fic (WIP)

Best Alternate Universe Fic (Less than 10,000 Words)

Best Alternate Universe Fic (More than 10,000 Words)

Best Alternate Universe Fic (WIP)

Best Angst Fic (Less than 10,000 Words)

Best Angst Fic (More than 10,000 Words)

Best Angst Fic (WIP)

Best Romance Fic (Less than 10,000 Words)

Best Romance Fic (More than 10,000 Words)

Best Romance Fic (WIP)

Best Smut Fic (Less than 10,000 Words)

Best Smut Fic (More than 10,000 Words)

Best Smut Fic (WIP)

Section 2: Alternate Universe

Best Modern AU

Best Ark AU

Best Season 7/Post Series Spec

Best Fantasy AU

Best Grounder AU

Best Social Media AU

Best Fusion/Crossover AU

Section 3: Tropes

Best Mutual Pining Fic

Best Slow Burn Fic

Best Enemies to Lovers Fic

Best Friends to Lovers Fic

Best Soulmates Fic

Best Found Family Fic

Best Parenthood Fic

Best Sharing a Bed Fic

Best Arranged Marriage Fic

Section 4: Fun Superlatives

A Fic I Could Re-Read 101 Times (and Still Love It!)

If I Had to Convince Someone to Ship Bellarke, I Would Send Them *This* Fic

Most Original Idea

Most Memorable Fic

Most Well-Written Fic

Best Underrated Fic

Best Worldbuilding

Section 5: Writers

Best ‘Seasoned’ Writer (has been writing Bellarke fic since August 2018 or earlier and has posted a fic between August 1, 2019 and August 29, 2020)

Best Emerging Writer (first Bellarke fic posted after August 1, 2019)

Best Alternate Universe Writer

Best Angst Writer

Best Canon Writer

Best Smut Writer

Most Underrated Writer

Section 6: Creators

Best Gifset Creator

Best Fanartist

Best Fic Moodboard Creator

Best Fanart to Accompany a Fic

Best Meta/Spec Writer on Tumblr or Twitter

Rules for the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020 will be posted on August 29, 2020.

There is no word count minimum or maximum in Sections 2 through 6.

Start thinking of your nominations now! Eligible fics must be posted between August 1, 2019 and August 29, 2020.

Nominations open on August 29, 2020 at 11:59PM UTC.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Awards Details

Rules

To nominate and vote, you must have a valid Tumblr URL, Twitter @, Instagram @, AO3 pseud, or a fanfiction.net profile. These accounts will be verified to ensure no cheating takes place.

You may only submit each form ONCE. If you submit forms multiple times (or from multiple accounts), ALL of your nominations/votes will be erased. We take cheating very seriously.

If you are a writer or creator with a nomination(s), you cannot attempt to sway the votes by offering an exchange (e.g. ‘vote for me and I will update quicker’). You may inform friends/readers/followers that you are nominated.

Each individual fic cannot win in more than THREE (3) categories total. If a fic gets first place in more than three (3) categories, the title of Winner will go to the second place fic. This rule is in place to ensure as many fics as possible are celebrated.

Regarding Fandom Drama

If anything goes awry from the fandom, we will cancel the event. We are aware of the previous years’ issues and are prepared to deal with hate. If things get out of control (we are getting lots of hate/threats, the results are being skewed), we will not hesitate to cancel the awards without warning.

This is our promise that the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards team have absolutely no say over which fics make it to which rounds/which fics win. We will not add or remove any fics whatsoever. Messaging us about a specific fic will be pointless because we will not tamper with the results for any reason.

We will not have anonymous asks on once nominations are announced. We apologize for this and understand this may cause some awkwardness for you, but this is done out of an abundance of caution due to last year. If you have any questions or concerns, message us/send us a (non-anonymous) ask and we will respond to you. This is to reduce hate.

Fic Eligibility

Fics must have AT LEAST one chapter posted between August 1, 2019 and August 29, 2020. This applies to short fics/one-shots/drabbles, long fics/multiple-chapters, and WIPs. As long as there has been any chapter activity between August 1, 2019 and August 29, 2020, the fic is eligible.

“Canon” fics include canonverse, canon divergent, canon compliant, canon setting, etc.

“Alternate universe” include ANY alternate universes (including all the subcategories listed in Section 2, such as Modern AUs, Ark AUs, Fantasy AUs, Grounder AUs, Social Media AUs, Fusion/Crossover AUs).

“Parenthood” includes pregnancy, co-parenting, single dad/mom, other kid fics.

“Underrated” fics must have under 100 kudos and 1000 hits on AO3.

“Seasoned Writer” means they have been writing Bellarke fics since August 2018 or earlier and has posted a fic between August 1, 2019 and August 29, 2020.

“Emerging Writer” means they posted their first Bellarke fic after August 1, 2019.

We give thanks to the two fandom awards done before us (the Bellarke Fanfiction Awards & the Bellarke Fanwork Awards). Many of these rules, regulations, and format of the 2020 awards are inspired by them.

NEW RULE:

The winner of Most Underrated Writer cannot win in any other writer category (Seasoned, Emerging, Alternate Universe, Angst, Canon, Smut). If the writer who is first place for Most Underrated Writer has won in a previous category, the title of Most Underrated Winner will be passed to the second place writer.

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bellarkeficawards · 4 years ago

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Do you want to be on our street team?

Are you interested in helping the Bellarke Fic Writer Awards 2020? We’re recruiting for our street team!

What you would do on our street team:

Reblog posts we tag you in.

Share links for nominations and voting with fandom friends.

If you can, repost links to nominations/voting to other social media platforms (Twitter, Discord, Instagram).

That’s it! Basically, you are our hype team!

And...

The commitment is minimal.

You can withdraw from the street team at any time (please let me know if you are withdrawing).

You will get a special shout out at the end of the awards (unless you want to stay anonymous).

This does not impact your ability to nominate or vote for fics.

If you are a creator, this does not impact your eligibility for nominations.

We really need a few people to help hype up the awards and spread the word around.

Interested? Send us an ask (non-anonymous) or message us!

#bellarke fanfiction #bellarke #bellarke fic writer awards

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kinetic-elaboration · 4 years ago

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September 10: WIP Project 2020

So I’ve decided to participate in this round of the @the-wip-project and maybe (maybe!!) finish up a very old fic that’s been sitting in my writing folder for forever.

(Working) Title: Dual Timeline Story

Pairing: Jasper/Monty

Universe: Canon-divergent post-S4 & Modern AU

Word count so far: 6,600 words

Last worked on: July 23, 2017

Goal: draft complete by September 24

Status/Thoughts: So I wrote 6k of this in a period of a little more than a month in 2017, apparently, and then for some reason just dropped it very randomly. I do remember writing it and thinking about it, but I didn’t leave any kind of outline or notes behind so I have no idea where I thought I was going with this. My guess is, I didn’t really know. I was probably just making it up as I went.

I haven’t re-read it properly but I’ve skimmed a little and thought about it, and I think I can complete it in 5 more scenes: 3 canon-divergent and 2 modern au. Each of the scenes so far is less than 2k, so rounding up, that’s about 10k words in 2 weeks.

My writers block has been so bad all summer that there’s a part of me that doesn’t think I’ll be able to do that, in all honesty. It seems a little more feasible when I think of it as 5 scenes of 2k each, though so.... could go either way.

I’m especially nervous about the canon-divergent scenes because I feel like this fic was my vehicle for talking through a lot of my 2017-era thoughts and obviously those are.... quite far away from me now. I’m not sure that what I’ll end up with this at this point will be coherent or meaningful. On the other hand, I’m a better writer now than I was 3 years ago, and.... I have some new thoughts, some new things I need to work through, that could go very well in this fic and that I didn’t need to say in 2017, so--silver lining??

Plus like frankly anything that lets me take this out of my drafts and put something out into the world is good. Even if only one person who isn’t me reads it, at least that one person got to!

Plans: I need to re-read the draft so far, and then write out a proper outline for the rest of the fic, including the essential points of each scene. Then, uh, actually write the thing!

I’m not sure I’ll be able to work on it tomorrow. MAYBE the re-reading part, but with S.Ct. Preview plus it being the end of the week... not going to rely on it. So tentative plan is to do the planning stuff on Saturday, write 1-2 scenes on Sunday (realistically.... 1), another scene Monday, and then hopefully finish it next weekend or on the following Monday.

Bonus: I’ve written some other stuff in the Modern AU verse of this fic (and I guess some things that could be in the canon-divergent verse too, or something very similar), including some Miller/Jackson drabbles and one full-length Bellarke fic, All of the Love Songs Have Been Written, which was recently nominated for a Bellarke Fic Award! A sign perhaps??

#the year 2020 #2020: writing thoughts #wip project 2020

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