Hi, and welcome aboard! :D Good to meetcha. The challenge I'm talking about is explained here (clickable text, if it doesn't show up on your comp as that) (http://be-compromised.livejournal.com/210788.html), but in brief:

I issued a silly challenge to the members of the community to write a fic set in their hometowns -- because writing one set where you know is a super interesting exercise (in both writing and reading)!

The other fics you've been seeing posted by cybermathwitch (or Koren) with little banners are part of an anonymous exchange (until reveals) that can all be found under the Secret Santa 2012 tag (which is here! (http://be-compromised.livejournal.com/tag/secret%20santa%202012))

Just post it here to the community, :). This challenge is informal, so there're no extra steps.

Most people put a header that looks a bit like this at the top of the fic (sorry if you know all of this already, I am a thorough person at heart).

Title:
Rating: (Gen/Teen/Mature/Explicit is the most common system, but the one used for movies in the US is also pretty widely used)
Warning: Any warnable material -- so anything in your fic that might cause harm to someone who's experienced it or the fallout (don't freak out if someone asks you to warn for something and you didn't -- you'll remember to next time :)). The normal warnings include: character death (including miscarriage); consent issues (so any fic where it is not clear in-text that both characters want to have sex prior to any sexual content starting; this can be warned for as "rape," or "dub-con/non-con" --mthe dub-con/non-con distinction really changes from person to person, but the general idea is that dub-con involves manipulated emotions or circumstances and that non-con involves physical coercion); torture/violence; self-harm or self-harming thoughts; suicide and suicidal thoughts; underage sex; incest (sexual or romantic relationship between two people who are related, either through blood or by being raised together). That looks like a big list, and it is, but just go through and check if your fic has those in it -- if it does, warn for it, if it doesn't don't (and if you aren't sure if it 'counts,' warn for "things reminiscent of " or something similar). If you don't see anything to warn about, just write that down and be open to if people ask you to add one :). If you want to avoid spoilering the plot with warnings, google how to do the html for a "spoiler cut" which will hide them from people who don't click it :)
Characters: Who's in this fic? Are there any pairings?
Summary: What is your fic about?
Author's notes: What are your feelings about this fic

In this comm, I am pretty sure everything is optional except for the ratings and warnings, but I am definitely not a mod.

Then you post your fic -- it's polite to hide your fic behind an LJ cut, which you can also google the html of, or whhen using the rich text editor you just select the text and hit the LJ cut button.

If you want html information, inkvoices wrote a great tutorial here (specifically for Secret Santa, but we can use it too!): http://be-compromised.livejournal.com/148825.html

I hope that helps, :).

Oh, and re: AO3; basically I am waiting to see if they'll give me invites so I can invite you guys to AO3 to add your fics in. If they do, I'll send you one! If they don't, just add your fic to the collection after your invite comes :)

Was going to offer you my extra invite, but I saw alphaflyer is on it. Well, to anybody else who needs an AO3 invite, I've got a spare!

Edited 2012-12-30 05:01 am (UTC)

*waves her hand around manically* uhm, not sure if alphaflyer still has any, so I'd be absolutely over the moon if I could get your spare invite :)

I have two left after sending one to shenshen-- saving for Arrington and purely_distel. Just PM me your e-mail addresses and they're yours! :-)

I JUST wanted to strike the comment because I'd read your pm ... but you had to go and reply to it :P

So, uhm, I'd gladly take you up on your offer.

THANK YOU, FREA, for offering though <3

(I feel like this comment sounds horribly not nice ... but I also really don't know why that is because it is only meant to be nice and ... *sighs* oh, never mind ...)

It's a perfectly nice comment! :-)

Glad I could help.

YAY NEWBI! *tackle hugs*

I'm still really new as well, but lemme tell you - THIS IS THE VERY BEST BAR EVER!!!!! *big grin*

So WELCOME TO THE MADHOUSE, I really hope you feel as home here as we all do <3