Welcome

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Welcome to buffyversemeta. The aim of this community is to get more meta essays about the Buffyverse posted and so we can all enjoy discussing the ideas raised.

The Metathon will work as follows:

1. Week 1: people post ideas for subjects for meta essays.
2. Week 2: members sign up and commit to post an essay on a particular subject on a particular date.
3. July 2007: The essays are posted here.

Further details:

Suggesting Subjects

• Subject ideas can be posted by anyone, whether they intend to write an essay or not. The point is to get as many ideas as possible.
• Any individual can post as many subject ideas as they wish.
• All subjects must be related to the Buffyverse in some way, beyond that there are no limitations on what is a suitable idea.
• Make your suggestion in a comment to the subject list post. There is no time to waste so please start suggesting right away, we need as many as possible before June 18th.

Sign Up

• You should become a member of the community before you sign up. (Membership is open and unmoderated. Join here.)
• You may sign up to write as many essays as you wish.
• Sign-up during the week of June 18th-24th
• To sign up, pick a free date from the date selector by replying to that comment. Then pick a free subject from the subject list by replying to that comment with the date you have already picked.
• If the subject you wanted is already taken, you may write it as a second essay and post on the date the original person chose. It would be appreciated if you also sign up for and write another essay that no-one else has chosen. (This is to ensure a wide range of subjects are covered.)

Posting Your Essay

• Essays may be posted here, or on the writer's own journal with a link posted here.
• All essays must be posted in public posts with comments, including anonymous comments, turned on.
• All essays must be posted with the appropriate headers, tags and format for the convenience of future readers.
• The writer undertakes to read all comments on their own essay and reply if appropriate.

Please feel free to pimp the community far and wide.

Comments

[thatotherperv.livejournal.com]

Subject ideas can be posted by anyone, whether they intend to write an essay or not. The point is to get as many ideas as possible.

I think this is a *great* idea, vs the one-to-one ration of most ficathons.

[stormwreath.livejournal.com]

Question: is it your intention that this community should be dedicated entirely to the metathon - just the essays people write for that, and discussion of them? Or do you see it being a more general forum where people could share other meta they might write as well?

Part of the reason I ask is because I've already written about half of an essay (which, as it happens, almost matches one of the subjects already suggested: the one about magic). I'm planning to post it in my own LJ, but wondered if a link here as well would be appropriate? (If it's not, no problem... I was just wondering what your policy was).

[spartan5000.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm curious, are you going to continue to accept essays after the 'metathon' ends or is this more open-ended? I'm currently working on an essay about Angel's war with W&H and the Senior Partners, primarily focused on Season Five, but I'm a very slow writer and am not sure when it will be finished. I would like to get it done before the comics come out but... who knows. Could I post it here after it's done?

[spartan5000.livejournal.com]

Oops, would actually help to read your comment to the previous poster, wouldn't it??? It looks like you are intending something open ended. It does still leave a question as to whether only the essays on the list are open to review or can I slip one in later?