CI5hq Advent Reccing challenge - any more volunteers?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks to everyone who's volunteered so far, the ci5hq Christmas/Winter/December story reccing calendar is nearly ready to go - there are just a few gaps left, if anyone else would like to volunteer to rec a Pros Christmas/Winter/December story one day! Or if any of our brilliant reccers would like to choose another date that would be fab, and if neither of those then I can cover the rest of the days myself - so either way, the Pros Christmas Advent Calendar is go!

And here's our line-up of reccers... *g*

1st December - krisserci5
2nd December - nypagan
3rd December - msmoat
4th December - hagsrus
5th December - siskiou
6th December - byslantedlight
7th December - nypagan
8th December - nypagan
9th December - milomaus
10th December - krisserci5
11th December - byslantedlight
12th December - tango65
13th December - franciskerst
14th December - merentha13
15th December - byslantedlight
16th December - milomaus
17th December - msmoat
18th December - krisserci5
19th December - gilda_elise
20th December - airelle1
21st December - merentha13
22nd December - gilda_elise
23rd December - golden_bastet
24th December - hagsrus


ETA - And for the reccers - some storylists to help you choose, via this link!

Christmas stories and links to more storylists.

Comments

[tango65.livejournal.com]

How do we go about choosing a story to rec? Or more importantly, how do we know someone else won't rec the one we wanted before us? :)

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

You can choose any Christmas/December/Winter etc Pros story that you like! If someone ends up reccing it before you, then the only thing to do is choose another one, I'm afraid. We did wonder about announcing the stories first, but it wouldn't be as much fun if we knew what was coming. There are lots of Christmas story lists around - actually I did say I'd include links to some of them in the announcement post, so I'll edit them in. You've been around for a while though - I hope you know most of them already! *g*

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Hi!
Wouldn't it be more fun if several people recced the same story? I'm always interested in recs, and in how different people see differently the stories - and having stories recced by more than one person would say something about that story, too! I'd like to rec one story which I like a lot (I still have to find it - forgot the title, but it probably has "Christmas" in it.) Can I take the 20th December slot? If I understood correctly, those slots having your name in them are still free?
Thanks a lot for putting this up !

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I have no problem with people reccing the same stories at all, go for it! And you know about the Reading Room that was here at ci5hq, right, where people discussed stories from all their different viewpoints? Check out the comm tags, if not. It died down, as these things do, but if people were interested we could play again.

The 20th December slot is actually the one that I chose for myself - so it makes sense that's the one somebody would like! *vbg* But I really don't mind, so yes, it's all yours. Any of the ones with my name on can still be free for people!

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

I'll take the 18th as well. . . . .

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's all yours!

[airelle1.livejournal.com]

Well, it's probably a stupid question, but... Where do I post my recc????? And where do I read other people recs????
I tried to find the answer, really tried, but I must be a bit stupid...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Erm... here? *g* Here at the ci5hq comm!

How have you got to this post? I can give you directions in the same style, if that would help. I'm curious about how you read this post actually, if you can't see the rest of the community! Just via a link somewhere, maybe?

But if you click on this link, it should take you to see all the posts in this comm, including the recs. The top of the page will look like this:
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2118734/2118734_original.jpg)
When you scroll down far enough, you'll go through all these recs, and eventually get to this post again. Explore! *g* So: CI5hq (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/). (Or clicking ci5hq should take you to the same page.)

Next - how to post!

1. Okay, I can see you haven't joined the community yet, so you need to do that first: go to the User Info page of the comm (http://ci5hq.livejournal.com/profile).
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2119701/2119701_original.jpg)
(You can double-click on any of these pics to make them bigger).


(When you're on the front page of the comm you can also get to the User Info page by clicking on "User Info" in the sidebar on the left.)
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2118085/2118085_original.jpg)
(This is the User Info page that I see - yours might look slightly different)

Actually I've just seen that you're a member of a few comms already, so you probably know how to do that! It should say Join/Watch/Follow or the like - do all that! *g*

2. Once you're a member (you'll see it listed on the User Info page of your own lj) you'll hopefully see a link that says "Post" on the community's User Info page:
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2119087/2119087_original.jpg)
If you click on that, it should take you to a posting window, and you can just write your post into that (or copy and paste it if you've written it elsewhere). You'll see the usual little icons for bold and italics and so on, I think, and hopefully it'll be pretty intuitive from there. It should look something like this:
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2119280/2119280_original.jpg)

Then there's just three steps to posting!
(http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/byslantedlight/8284114/2119667/2119667_original.jpg)

- type in a subject line (copy what other people have been using for the recs: "An Advent Calendar of Story Recs - 20th December 2013")
- type in (or copy and paste from another document) your rec
- make sure the "Security" drop-down menu is set to "Public" (it should be)
- Hit "Post to CI5hq

That's it! I hope that makes sense - let me know if it doesn't.