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plot_bunny_bootWhat is a bunny pile?
For the purposes of this comm, "bunny pile" refers to your list of unfinished fics/writing projects.
Is there a minimum count before it can be considered a “pile?”
We used to have a minimum, but have realized that people with smaller bunny piles need motivation too and now have the following system:
If you have under 100 fills on your Bunny Pile, you will have to do 100% of your list; if you have between 101-999 fills on your bunny pile, you will have to do 10%, and if you have 1000 fills or over, you will have to complete 100 fills period. We hope this will make finishing Boot Camp more feasible for everyone and will open it up for people with smaller Bunny Piles to participate.
Do I have to finish my whole bunny pile?
No, just whatever you signed up for.
So how do I sign up?
When the signup post goes live, comment with the total number of fills in your bunny pile to complete and a link to your bunny pile. You should also include your chosen consequence, the better to loom it over you on the master post.
What is the master post?
It's a post listing everyone participating in the challenge, a link to their bunny piles, their progress totals, and their consequence. You will be able to find it on the sidebar after everyone has signed in.
What has to be on my bunny pile?
Because we understand that everyone has different needs and we do want you to succeed, despite our snark, you can have it any format that works for you. It does need to include a list of all of your ongoing/incomplete projects, how many fills each project is worth, a total tally of the number of fills on your list, and your progress throughout the year.
How do I figure out my total fills?
One fic/project equals one fill. In order to count as completed, the fic must be complete. It does not have to be posted and we do not make you show your work. We understand posting schedules and publishing restrictions.
But I spent the year writing one 150,000 word fic!
We don't give a flying rat's ass about your word counts. One fic, one fill.
But I have tables on my todo list. How do I count that?
You subtract how many fills you have made on your table already from the total fills on your table. The number left is how many fills go towards your total.
Example: Kat's Halloween Table of Doom (14/115) = 101 fills to be made
But I have a bunch of bingo cards. What do I do?
A bingo card counts as 5 fills. If you have a 3x3 card instead of a 5x5 card, well, you are going to have to write 2 extra fics for this challenge. If you have a 7x7 card, clearly you are kattrip033 and a mod will be having a stern talk with you. Edit: We have relaxed this restriction. Generally speaking, most bingos use 5x5 cards and require a line bingo, which is 5 fills. But, some bingo challenges only use 2x2 or 3x3 cards and some people only do blackouts on their cards, not line bingos. Count your fills according.
What if I make a blackout on my card instead of a bingo?
Well, my little overachiever, that depends. If the other 20 fills on your bingo card don't count towards anything else on your bunny pile, you have two choices. One, you add the 20 other fics to your overall total. It will raise your total and possibly change the number of fics you have to complete to finish this challenge, but all the fics you wrote would now count; or two, congratulations, you just wrote 20 fics that don't count towards anything.
What if I did something more complicated?
That depends on what you did. Let say you had a 5x5 card = 25 total prompts. Five of those filled count towards the 5 fills your bingo was worth. Out of the 20 left, one was a chapter to an ongoing story on your bunny pile, two were part of a series you pledged six fills for the year for, and three were individual fills in your bunny pile. Those eight fics count towards those eight fills, leaving you twelve fics that count towards nothing, unless you add them to your overall total like above.
If you can't figure out how to make your fill work, find a mod.
Wait, did you just sort of say we can double dip?
Yes, you can double dip! We reward ingenuity! If you can find a way for your fic to double or even triple dip things in your bunny pile, we say go for it! If you are quadruple dipping though, that is beyond suspicious and you will most likely be speaking to a mod.
What if I have a series I am writing or a chapter fic where I haven't decided how many total fics or chapters it will have in the end?
We believe in the honor system. Just figure out how many additions you feel you should be able to make in a year's time and that is how many fills it will count for.
Wait, did you just say that each chapter of a chapter fic counts as a fill?
Yes, twice now.
What if three months after I signed up, I found this amazing challenge I never knew existed and need in my life (or I just forgot to include something).
Well, Princess, you have three choices. One, ignore it. If you didn't have too much to do already, you wouldn't be doing this challenge in the first place. Two, do it and not have it count for anything. Three, add it to your bunny pile and change your total to reflect the addition(s). Be sure to mention it at the next check in.
What if I want to adjust the total fills on my Bunny Pile?
You can always add to your total fills, but you can only subtract from your overall total under very special circumstances, for instance, it is a challenge fic and the comm hosting the challenge has closed. Whether or not you can delete something will be taken on a case by case basis by a mod.
So how often do we have to check in?
A check-in post will go up weekly. The last week of the month is mandatory. The others are optional. We encourage you to check in as often as possible.
What do I do at check in?
Comment on the check-in post with an updated total of your progress (ex. 32/984) and tell us a bit about what you have been working on since the last time you checked in.
What is the comm doing when we aren't checking in?
You are encouraged to use it to call others to word war.
What's a word war?
A group of you agree to write for x number of minutes straight. At the end of the agreed time, you compare word counts.
Are there prizes?
For the word wars, no. But we do give out graduation banners for making it through your fill quota.
What is this consequence you keep alluding to?
Should you fail to complete your expected fills, you will have to write a fic that makes your skin crawl – a pairing and/or genre that you hate vehemently.
How are you enforcing this?
We do work on the honor system, but we also all know each other for the most part and have no problems bugging each other.
That seems a bit harsh.
This is not a drum circle at summer camp where everyone is handing out puppies and hugs. This is a get your ass in gear plot bunny bootcamp.
For the purposes of this comm, "bunny pile" refers to your list of unfinished fics/writing projects.
Is there a minimum count before it can be considered a “pile?”
We used to have a minimum, but have realized that people with smaller bunny piles need motivation too and now have the following system:
If you have under 100 fills on your Bunny Pile, you will have to do 100% of your list; if you have between 101-999 fills on your bunny pile, you will have to do 10%, and if you have 1000 fills or over, you will have to complete 100 fills period. We hope this will make finishing Boot Camp more feasible for everyone and will open it up for people with smaller Bunny Piles to participate.
Do I have to finish my whole bunny pile?
No, just whatever you signed up for.
So how do I sign up?
When the signup post goes live, comment with the total number of fills in your bunny pile to complete and a link to your bunny pile. You should also include your chosen consequence, the better to loom it over you on the master post.
What is the master post?
It's a post listing everyone participating in the challenge, a link to their bunny piles, their progress totals, and their consequence. You will be able to find it on the sidebar after everyone has signed in.
What has to be on my bunny pile?
Because we understand that everyone has different needs and we do want you to succeed, despite our snark, you can have it any format that works for you. It does need to include a list of all of your ongoing/incomplete projects, how many fills each project is worth, a total tally of the number of fills on your list, and your progress throughout the year.
How do I figure out my total fills?
One fic/project equals one fill. In order to count as completed, the fic must be complete. It does not have to be posted and we do not make you show your work. We understand posting schedules and publishing restrictions.
But I spent the year writing one 150,000 word fic!
We don't give a flying rat's ass about your word counts. One fic, one fill.
But I have tables on my todo list. How do I count that?
You subtract how many fills you have made on your table already from the total fills on your table. The number left is how many fills go towards your total.
Example: Kat's Halloween Table of Doom (14/115) = 101 fills to be made
But I have a bunch of bingo cards. What do I do?
A bingo card counts as 5 fills. If you have a 3x3 card instead of a 5x5 card, well, you are going to have to write 2 extra fics for this challenge. If you have a 7x7 card, clearly you are kattrip033 and a mod will be having a stern talk with you. Edit: We have relaxed this restriction. Generally speaking, most bingos use 5x5 cards and require a line bingo, which is 5 fills. But, some bingo challenges only use 2x2 or 3x3 cards and some people only do blackouts on their cards, not line bingos. Count your fills according.
What if I make a blackout on my card instead of a bingo?
Well, my little overachiever, that depends. If the other 20 fills on your bingo card don't count towards anything else on your bunny pile, you have two choices. One, you add the 20 other fics to your overall total. It will raise your total and possibly change the number of fics you have to complete to finish this challenge, but all the fics you wrote would now count; or two, congratulations, you just wrote 20 fics that don't count towards anything.
What if I did something more complicated?
That depends on what you did. Let say you had a 5x5 card = 25 total prompts. Five of those filled count towards the 5 fills your bingo was worth. Out of the 20 left, one was a chapter to an ongoing story on your bunny pile, two were part of a series you pledged six fills for the year for, and three were individual fills in your bunny pile. Those eight fics count towards those eight fills, leaving you twelve fics that count towards nothing, unless you add them to your overall total like above.
If you can't figure out how to make your fill work, find a mod.
Wait, did you just sort of say we can double dip?
Yes, you can double dip! We reward ingenuity! If you can find a way for your fic to double or even triple dip things in your bunny pile, we say go for it! If you are quadruple dipping though, that is beyond suspicious and you will most likely be speaking to a mod.
What if I have a series I am writing or a chapter fic where I haven't decided how many total fics or chapters it will have in the end?
We believe in the honor system. Just figure out how many additions you feel you should be able to make in a year's time and that is how many fills it will count for.
Wait, did you just say that each chapter of a chapter fic counts as a fill?
Yes, twice now.
What if three months after I signed up, I found this amazing challenge I never knew existed and need in my life (or I just forgot to include something).
Well, Princess, you have three choices. One, ignore it. If you didn't have too much to do already, you wouldn't be doing this challenge in the first place. Two, do it and not have it count for anything. Three, add it to your bunny pile and change your total to reflect the addition(s). Be sure to mention it at the next check in.
What if I want to adjust the total fills on my Bunny Pile?
You can always add to your total fills, but you can only subtract from your overall total under very special circumstances, for instance, it is a challenge fic and the comm hosting the challenge has closed. Whether or not you can delete something will be taken on a case by case basis by a mod.
So how often do we have to check in?
A check-in post will go up weekly. The last week of the month is mandatory. The others are optional. We encourage you to check in as often as possible.
What do I do at check in?
Comment on the check-in post with an updated total of your progress (ex. 32/984) and tell us a bit about what you have been working on since the last time you checked in.
What is the comm doing when we aren't checking in?
You are encouraged to use it to call others to word war.
What's a word war?
A group of you agree to write for x number of minutes straight. At the end of the agreed time, you compare word counts.
Are there prizes?
For the word wars, no. But we do give out graduation banners for making it through your fill quota.
What is this consequence you keep alluding to?
Should you fail to complete your expected fills, you will have to write a fic that makes your skin crawl – a pairing and/or genre that you hate vehemently.
How are you enforcing this?
We do work on the honor system, but we also all know each other for the most part and have no problems bugging each other.
That seems a bit harsh.
This is not a drum circle at summer camp where everyone is handing out puppies and hugs. This is a get your ass in gear plot bunny bootcamp.
