I like it! Good thread. Which reminds me, there's only a week left to sign up for the madness that is The Big Bang Challenge. Five months, twenty thousand words and/or art and vids! We've got fifty some-odd sign-ups so far, and I'll be posting the list of the participants on the fifteenth.

Yay for this thread! Good way to keep up with all you insane people signing up for everything. And I will therefore go on and pimp the Days Of Awesome: Jewish Character Ficathon! From the community info page: It is almost the Days of Awe, the period around the Jewish high holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. There are so many fabulous Jewish characters who are so often written on both fanfic and canon as Jewish in name only. This seven-day challenge using the days of atonement between those two holy days will highlight those Jewish characters and their Judaism. Sept. 15th (Sat) - Sept 21st (Fri) : seven days to post about Wilson and Cuddy and any other Jewish character you can think of - fics, ficlets, drabbles, meta, icons, vids, recs, and so forth. The only requiremet is that their religion is featured in some way - any way. Needless to say, you don't have to be Jewish to participate :-) Some more info here. You don't have to sign up, don't even have to post every day - just contribute a ficlet or two, and Wilson and Cuddy will thank you. Come one, come all! It will be awesome.

Hello one and all! Over at the House Big Bang Challenge, writers' sign ups are drawing to a close. You have just over forty-eight hours left to sign up, if you'd like to be one of the sixty-some-odd participants who will all be writing House fanfic novellas over the course of the next five months. That's 20 000 words, or more, of fanfic in any and all genres: gen, het, girlslash, or boyslash; crossovers, AUs, sequels, and the like are all welcomed (no WiPs, please). Writers who meet the deadline will have art created for their stories. YAY. Once again, SIGN UPS END SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, AT 5:00 PM MOUNTAIN STANDARD TIME, at which point the masterlist of participants will be posted. Come and join us! You never know what you can accomplish until you have a really big deadline looming in your future try! Not a writer? You can participate in other ways, as well. Artists and vidders still have lots of time to sign up--details are HERE; and if you have a plotbunny you're interested in offering to the participants, tell us about it HERE. Or, offer your services as a beta. Thanks to everyone who's participating! Your mods, Zulu and Thedeadparrot.

Chase Fest is now Open Rules and Guidelines: http://community.livejournal.com/chase_fest/1112.html Accepting promts/challenges: http://community.livejournal.com/chase_fest/846.html And Get Chase Hugged: http://community.livejournal.com/finally_tuesday/986.html

Voting is open at Ficwriters_anon! Go go go! :D

Less a challenge than a pleasure, hopefully, but the Housefic Hall of Fame discussions have started up again, starting with The Dead Parrot's "Things To Do Before You Die." http://community.livejournal.com/housefic_meta/95129.html#cutid1

Quick reminder: The deadline for the House-Wilson Fan Quilt Project is fast approaching. Squares should be in the mail to me by November 15, so if you plan to participate, get stitching! For all the info on the Project, see the project community here: http://community.livejournal.com/house_quilt

The Clinic writing workshop on LiveJournal has merged with housefic_meta. In celebration of the event, the first Clinic-style writing exercise has been posted at housefic_meta. It's called First Impressions. The idea is to write from the prompt of the new fellowship candidates' first impression of House.

Moderator Announcement: Bored? Like Fan-Fiction? House's House of Whining is officially sponsoring the Evil Nurse Brenda Fest over at Live Journal. In the spirit of the affiliate fan-festivals, the ENB_Fest aims to create a great base of fanfic/fanart/fanvids that are centered around our favorite nurse - Brenda Previn. More information can be found in the forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=374>HHoW thread or at our Live Journal Community. Check it out! We can't wait to see what you all are capable of!

Dude, why'd you have to do ENB fest during crunch time for House Big Bang? I can't even think about it, personally.

Thanks for letting us know Namaste. We'll probably be delaying it so that everyone in HBB can participate in the ENB_Fest as well.

Don't do it just for me, but I'd appreciate a slight delay. I'm not sure how many people are doing the Big Bang, but a complete draft of a story of at least 20,000 words is due Feb. 15, which makes things a little tight obviously, if we want to do the ENB fest too.

You're not the only one participating Namaste, but you're the voice for them. HTR and I have been PMing back and forth discussing dates and ideas. When we have something official for the dates, it will be posted. The idea for the fest was to give all the creative House fans something to do, which with the Big Bang, you all have something (and how we missed it is beyond me). We want everyone to participate, and if it means moving things back a bit so that the Big Bang writers can join us, then so be it. Not a problem.

Over on Livejournal, Get_house_laid is starting their second round, for all the smuttily inclined. And there are over 300 prompts available, with a wide variety of pairings (or more). They don't have a deadline for sign-ups, but stories/artwork are to be posted from March 1-May 1.