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Not-quite final wordcount for SSBB August issue: 225,000
Not-quite final wordcount for SSBB special issue: 83,000

Or, well over 300,000 words. Erin and I were joking that October ought to be M-I-N-I-M-A-L Month but really: I was wracking my brains for a formal rather than thematic challenge and this could be it. Something like, for this issue only each person is allowed to contribute up to two stories of between 0 and 3,500 words each. (Although the sex scene requirement remains as-is. XD) One of the blind_go rounds was along said lines.

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Regardless of whether I post this stuff here or at carnet it must be getting boring. XD Uh... there's other stuff I want to talk about! For some reason I really want to organize that GetBackers fic-guessing challenge although this is utter insanity what with b-school and part-time jobs and SSBB and WIPs. OTOH I never actually guess in these challenges, so it would be very basic: you sign up, I email you a pseud, you send me your story with the pseud in the subject line, I post your story under the pseud. A victim collaborator will be found to compile and rank the guesses. No editing, no deadline extensions, no graphic design, no search-replacing smart quotes. Compared to SSBB it looks like a cakewalk. XD

Suggestions re: comm names and time frame?

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I only participated in the first round of subrosa_tennis way back when, and it gave something like six months. XD I'd probably give two months for writing myself, because that's the SSBB gap and thus easy to remember for me, plus it's an old fandom for most of the people I know (once I get it set up I'll go pimp on getbackers proper, though).