There were so many good fics for the last two challenges! I love our writers. :)
This week's challenge comes courtesy of Pam!Pam!ThankyouMam! The idea is very topical, and made me laugh a lot, so here we go: Conan Lands in The Office. What if Conan O'Brien had stayed in the office instead of going to the Emmys? Would he get a job, if any, at Dunder-Mifflin? Would Jim get jealous of Conan and Pam's sexual tension? Would Dwight plot revenge on Jim for making Conan fall out of the ceiling? I can't wait to read your various takes on Conan's stay in the office.
As always, questions and comments about the challenges and any other site-related issues can be directed to morethanthat1@gmail.com.--Morning Angel on September 06, 2006 05:48 pm 1 Comments
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to write a story incorporating the five following elements in some meaningful fashion. The elements are:
1) A waterfall
2) Leather gloves
3) Salsa
4) A zebra
5) A ten-year reunion
You will have one month to work on this story. On September 30 and in the days following, everyone who has written a story should post it on MTT for our reading pleasure. I can't wait to see the results!
ETA: I was so sleepy when I wrote this last night that I forgot to thank TV Buffy, samsmom, and Pixel for contributing elements to this challenge. Thanks, girls! :)--Morning Angel on September 01, 2006 09:03 pm 6 Comments
Important announcement for new authors and a reminder for writers who have been posting here for a while about story categorization. I have noticed that not all stories are tagged properly, and in the spirit of making sure readers can easily find stories, I would just ask you please to verify that your stories have both a main category, and a subcategory.
Stories should be labelled in one of two main categories: Jim/Pam or Other. Stories should then be tagged as belonging to one or more of the following 6 subcategories (THIS APPLIES TO BOTH JIM/PAM STORIES AS WELL AS OTHER STORIES):
- Past: Story takes place before the show
- Present: Takes place at the same time as the documentary but not what we have seen in episodes
- Future: Takes place a long time somewhere down the road.
- Episode-related: The story shows us missing scenes of an episode or deals with the internal monologues some characters may have had during certain scenes.
- Crossover: Characters from another TV show/movie/book interact with the Dunder-Mifflinites.
- Alternate Universe : The story takes place in another time and/or setting. "Hope" by Nomadshan is the perfect example.
The subcategories are little bit hidden when authors post stories, which is why they are easy to miss.
1) After you used the scrolldown menu to select either Jim/Pam or Other, hit select.
2) Return to the same menu, and you will now see the subcategories have appeared.
3) Select as many subcategories as needed for your story. Hit select.
4) Your story is now both tagged for a main category and subcategories!
If you have any questions or concerns about categorization, please email us at morethanthat1@gmail.com. Thank you so much for your help. I truly appreciate this community because you have made archiving a pleasure. :)--Morning Angel on August 31, 2006 03:57 pm 0 Comments
I'm posting our regular weekly challenge, but there will also be a bonus month-long 5 Elements Challenge posted on Friday. I'll have more details about that at the end of the week.
For the time being, this week's challenge was suggested by TV Buffy: Overheard. Jim and Pam are having a conversation that they think is private, but someone somewhere is listening. It could be happening after hours in the office, at a moment when they mistakenly think their microphones are off, at a drive-through window,... Enjoy!
By the way, don't hesitate to rummage through older challenges, and write for them if you feel like it. I'm always happy to read more responses to challenges.--Morning Angel on August 30, 2006 04:57 pm 0 Comments
We are switching it up a bit today since we have received a few suggestions for non-Pam/Jim challenges. Today's challenge comes courtesy of Lucif, and asks for a Jim and Jan story: Second Choices . Post-Confession, Pre-Kiss. Rejected by Pam, Jim finds solace in someone who knows the pain he's feeling: Jan.
As always, you can send us your challenge ideas and any other comments or suggestions to morethanthat1@gmail.com.--Morning Angel on August 23, 2006 06:11 pm 0 Comments
I don't know if you noticed, but sicokitty uploaded a new skin to match the one she uses on the main MTT site. You can find it under the name version 4 in the skin menu. It is such a pretty purple, and has Jam rocking out on skates.
Of course, you still have four choices of skin. If you wish to change the default skin that you see whenever you come into the site, go under "Account Info", and click on "Edit personal information". You can pick your favourite skin to be your default whenever you log into the fanfic archive. While you are on that menu, you can also sign up for email alert when someone reviews one of your stories or when a favourite story is updated.
--Morning Angel on August 20, 2006 10:14 pm 1 Comments
It is Thursday (also known as Office day in my world!) so it is always a good day to issue a challenge to our writers. Today, I am proposing a story idea that has been going through my mind for quite a while: Caught Red-Handed. Jim & Pam get caught in the act, whatever that might be: playing a prank on Dwight, making fun of Michael, making out in the parking lot,... Jim & Pam are so sneaky and snarky, but something is bound to bounce back in their face at some point.
I hope that sparks some story ideas for writers. As always, please submit any suggestions of challenges to morethanthat1@gmail.com. They are greatly appreciated!
Until next Thursday with yet another challenge...--Morning Angel on August 17, 2006 10:44 am 0 Comments
--Morning Angel on August 15, 2006 03:48 am 2 Comments
We haven't posted challenges in a little while so here are 2 new ideas that will hopefully generate some great stories.
The first challenge was suggested by stele, and is called Reality TV Hit. The documentary airs and it becomes something of a reality TV hit, as everyone in fake TV land becomes as fanatic as we in real TV land. The story opens just after "Casino Night" has aired, complete with the confession & the kiss. Time has passed between the moment when that was filmed and the airdate. Jim and Pam are not together. I'll let you decide the circumstances. So, what happens? How does Jim deal with having his heart broken in front of everyone? Does Pam come by to visit? Do they re-establish contact? Is Jim mobbed by a huge crowd of weeping women and carried off to Utah for a polygamous mass wedding?
Our second challenge was suggested by thedoors, and is titled Talent Show. This challenge requires writers to create an alternate ending to season 2. Instead of having a casino night, Michael decides to hold a talent show as a "fun-raiser" and emotions start to run high.
If you want to submit more challenge ideas, please email us at morethanthat1@gmail.com.
--Morning Angel on August 09, 2006 08:59 pm 0 Comments
--sicokitty on August 05, 2006 06:34 pm 2 Comments
--nomadshan on August 03, 2006 02:24 pm 1 Comments
--sicokitty on August 02, 2006 07:30 pm 12 Comments
Here's why:
They are really fun, and I think we can all agree that we are having a BALL with them, but we don't want to overwhelm our authors either! So from now on we're going to have a system in place where all challenge ideas should be submitted through the "Contact Us" button on the top menu. Every Tuesday, one of the admins will post one or two of those challenges and post a news item about it. When submitting challenges, please take the time to become familiar with challenge themes already posted. Themes that are very similiar will most likely not be posted, so try to be really creative with it, and come up with some great ideas. I think the Zombie challenge is an excellent example of thinking outside the box.
The quoted text is from a previous news item, from about a week and a half a go. I know it needs to be explained on the challenges page, but I just don't have the php skills to edit that particular page.
Please remember if you want to add a challenge, you need to submit the idea to us first by the "Contact Us" form.
--sicokitty on August 02, 2006 03:39 am 4 Comments
Feel free to hold off posting anymore stories until you have seen the TOS.
--sicokitty on August 01, 2006 08:07 am 0 Comments
I just wanted to point out that we have two new skins up on the site now, my take 6 or 7 of the dark theme, version 2, which I hope is a lot better to read this time around, plus we also had a lovely header graphic submitted by captainoats, which you can find on version 3!
If anyone else is handy with the graphics, feel free to submit header graphics to us via the contact form. If you do submit something, the dimensions should be 750x200 px.
Awesome, thanks again captainoats!
--sicokitty on July 31, 2006 04:47 am 0 Comments
Obviously, if you've linked to fics on journals and such, it would be advisable to edit them with the new server links, because eventually my old host will kill my old subdomain.
Also, I'm sorry about the downtime today. Something seriously odd happened with mySQL, I really don't understand exactly what, but it appears to have resolved itself, let's just hope it doesn't happen again!
--sicokitty on July 28, 2006 07:18 am 4 Comments
Ok that was easier than I expected. Should be all better now. :-)
Thanks guys for being so patient, I feel terrible about springing this on you in the middle of the night.
--sicokitty on July 27, 2006 09:09 pm 0 Comments
We've only had a couple submitted so far, so this week I'm taking one user submitted idea, plus an idea of my own that I had saved for the 100th member celebration, which never happened due to the crazy amount of challenges being posted. So please, remember to submit a challenge idea, we need heaps more!
Now on to the challenges!
2036, submitted by TV_buffy.
Jim In Charge, submitted by sicokitty.
--sicokitty on July 25, 2006 11:02 am 8 Comments
I apologise in advance if anyone has any difficulties, it should resolve itself within the day.
--sicokitty on July 24, 2006 10:56 am 10 Comments
Just a few words about the challenges.
They are really fun, and I think we can all agree that we are having a BALL with them, but we don't want to overwhelm our authors either! So from now on we're going to have a system in place where all challenge ideas should be submitted through the "Contact Us" button on the top menu. Every Tuesday, one of the admins will post one or two of those challenges and post a news item about it. When submitting challenges, please take the time to become familiar with challenge themes already posted. Themes that are very similiar will most likely not be posted, so try to be really creative with it, and come up with some great ideas. I think the Zombie challenge is an excellent example of thinking outside the box.
So from now on, it would be very much appreciated if we could do this. :-) Also, from now, challenges from non-members will not be accepted, and will be deleted. This must be a bug in the software, as the challenge feature should only be available to members. eta: The bug has been fixed, you must be logged in to add a challenge.
If you have any troubles, let me know! Thanks guys! :-)
--sicokitty on July 22, 2006 10:22 am 20 Comments
Kath from GMMR is challenging our writers to come up with a story where Pam & Jim are trying to keep their new relationship under wraps. It should be fun to read.
I think maybe we should hold off on new challenges for a few days just to give writers the chance to come up with little gems for the numerous challenges we have going on at the moment. We wouldn't want to miss on more steamy Jim and Pam, zombie attacks on Scranton, or Jam snowed in and trapped in a confined space, would we? ;)
--Morning Angel on July 21, 2006 12:13 pm 6 Comments
The challenges have been fantastic! So many good stories have come out them, and we have two new ones that need to be mentioned, Steam and Zombie Attack.
For anyone who is new to writing, and is looking for someone to beta their work, check out our group of beta volunteers, you can contact any of the volunteers through their profile, they're only too happy to help.
--sicokitty on July 20, 2006 05:32 am 4 Comments
I just wanted to direct your attention to two new challenges that have been added. Tizzy proposes Stranded, a fic where Jim and Pam would get stranded somewhere where they are not supposed to be.
I am proposing a challenge that is totally out of season, but I think the brutal heat may have gotten to my head. I would like to see Jim and Pam in some snowy situation. I'm impatiently awaiting some cooling fic.
--Morning Angel on July 17, 2006 06:16 pm 15 Comments
I hope you're all finding the new categorisation a little easier to follow. It's pretty obvious at this point that the administrators have decided to allow the other pairings to remain on the archive. We weren't comfortable with excluding them, but we still need to reiterate that this site remains primarily a Pam/Jim archive. I hope all your concerns with the integration of other pairings etc have now been addressed, and that the new system gives them the same respect with regards to categorising that we gave the Jim/Pam fics.
For the "Other" category, your moderator will be swestworld, and she will be your first point of contact in regards to any issues in that category.
The submission rules have also been updated- all authors should read these before posting any more stories. The administrators reserve the right to edit the submission rules at any point if they feel that something isn't working out. We have the members' best interest in mind, and will do our best to take on any comments/suggestions, if we do need to make any major changes to the rules, but ultimately the final decision rests with the administrators.
Please understand that when we jumped on this venture, we did not expect it to grow so quickly in the space of a few days. We are most definitely still learning, and we hope you can approach us with a level of understanding to that. All suggestions so far have been greatly appreciated, and we'll do our best to take them all on board.
Quick note about adding categories to your story: when you do so, please ensure that you've added both the upper level category (Jim and Pam or Other) and the subcategory (Past, Future etc). You're able to add multiple subcategories if you're not sure your story fits in one specific subcat.
Have fun with it, guys! Don't forget to check out the recent submissions to the Rain challenge, they're great!
ETA: Sort by rating has now been added as an option to the category search. If you run into troubles using it, do let me know.
--sicokitty on July 15, 2006 08:47 pm 1 Comments
If you re-cat your own story before we get to it, make sure that you select both a primary category (Jim and Pam, or Other) AND a subcategory, so that both are visible on your story's description page. Keep this in mind for all new submissions as well.
We're taking these steps to simplify categorization, and to make it easier for you to find the fics you want to read. We hope it's helpful in both ways.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me through my profile page, or use the Contact Us link above.
ETA: Retagging is complete. Please check your stories to ensure they are tagged as you would tag them yourself. Please note that the definition given for Alternate Universe has changed. The biggest grey area as far as tagging goes involves the ensemble pieces. Any ensemble piece with significant Jim-Pam interaction has been tagged "Jim and Pam" so that readers looking for that can find it easily. If you would prefer that your ensemble piece were categorized as "Other", please feel free to do so.
--nomadshan on July 14, 2006 01:28 pm 18 Comments