Good Intentions: WIP Fest
Weâve all been there â we had the best idea for a piece of fanfic or fanart that we couldnât resist starting ⌠and then, for one reason or another, it just fizzled.  Maybe you got tired, or couldnât figure out how to end it, or life interfered and sapped all motivation ⌠but either way, that piece of work is just languishing in a folder somewhere, and every now and then you look back on it with regret that you couldnât share it with the world.
Well, now is your chance!
Good Intentions is a fest for those WIPs that you wish you could bring yourself to share â maybe youâre looking for motivation to finish; maybe theyâve lain dormant for a long time and you still have a thread of hope for picking them up someday; maybe youâve given up entirely but every now and then feel a flicker of regret that they canât be shared with the world. This fest is a place for you to share as much or as little of them as youâd like, to celebrate your ideas and take a chance on one another.
There are few rules for this fest â itâs meant to be more encouragement than anything else! You can post your projects on Tumblr, to be reblogged here (please âmentionâ the blog, using the @ function, so that I am assured to see it and reblog it) or to this AO3 collection. If posting to AO3, please use the tag âAbandoned Work â Unfinished and Discontinuedâ so that readers know what theyâre getting themselves into.
Comments and conversation are encouraged! Readers may be more willing to take a chance on a WIP if they know the author is still around to discuss it â maybe to explain how it would have been finished, or why itâs not. Maybe authors will inspire one another, or some ideas might even be shuffled or traded!
The one main rule is: no harassment! The point of this fest is that these stories are perpetually unfinished; there is to be no bullying or begging of authors to finish an abandoned story, no matter how much you might want to read it! We are here to support one another and to share ideas, not to shame or bully one another. Authors, if you have strong feelings about what kind of conversation youâre willing to have with readers, please indicate as much in the authorâs notes! Iâm sure there will be readers with questions about how the story would have ended or what gave you your ideas, but if youâd rather not have those conversations, youâre welcome to let readers know â or to turn on comment moderation in the posting settings. Â Iâm hoping this fest can celebrate WIPs as they are, but also allow for the kind of author-reader interaction that is one of the best parts of fandom â but only in a generous, respectful way.
Similarly, no other forms of targeted harassment will be accepted. I donât anticipate there being too much moderating to do here, but I would ask that you use good judgment in the abandoned works you post. (For instance, if you abandoned something because you started feeling uneasy about it in regards to race, gender, ability status, etc., I would ask that you continue to use that judgment in whether you post it now.)
Ultimately, I donât want to try to moderate anyoneâs content; this is a free space, but I ask that everyone be respectful and use good judgment in how we interact with one another.
The collection will be open at all times, and I will reblog things on Tumblr afterwards as I am able, but Iâm naming Halloween - Tuesday, October 31st - as the day of posting. In the past, Iâve run the fest for a longer period of time, but thatâs been overkill the last couple of years, so Iâm trying out one day this year.
Please feel free to send me asks here or on my main blog (@roselightfairy) if I left something out!
