fkficfest game closed on Sunday. The game wrapped up with "party favor"/"door prize" 100-word drabbles for each of the on-time players. Then "The Closing Ceremonies" posted, with the masterlist of all stories entered in the game, cheers for all the great writers, beta-readers and readers, and answers to some final admin questions.Now, that's where I thought things would end! However, my co-moderator,
amilyn, threw a wild surprise after-party of additional drabbles, ficlets and short stories, so very generously contributed by those players who had time and inspiration, written to the prompts I had submitted myself. Wow! I am touched! And astounded. (amilyn, greerwatson, natmerc, twilight2000 and wiliqueen, thank you very much! I've put feedback for each of you on those posts.)I would like to thank, again, all the
fkficfest writers, beta-readers and readers! You were wonderful, and it was an amazing ride. Fiction games are a huge part of our identity as FK fandom, from the preeminent FKFic-L "War" team games, to list challenges like "Forever Not," the "Song Challenge" and the "Card Challenge," to stories given as gifts, round-robins, and much more. Thank you for making fkficfest such an FK experience!Remember that all the stories are still up to read and comment on! Feedback never goes stale. ~g~
Obsessing a bit, I'm concerned that the game's masterlist is not conveniently at the top of the community for visitors between now and the next game. I've been trying to come up with a way to add a real "sticky post" at the top, but the current layout doesn't support it, and I'd hate to switch the community to an inferior layout. (You cannot future-date community posts.) If I can't come up with a better way, we may have one more admin post to get the linked list of your stories to where a new reader will immediately see it.
There is more to say -- people are posting recommendations! people are posting to fkfic-l! I am infatuated with the story my match wrote! -- but for now, just: thank you all.
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