Rectober is coming....

[birdsofshore]

Please join us for a month of recs!

Rectober aims to celebrate reccing, reading, enjoying, commenting, sharing and discussion about fic, art and other fanworks during the month of October.

Why not take part in Rectober by pledging to make a certain number of rec posts during October? We also hope you'll encourage other reccers by commenting on their posts. ♥

All fandoms, pairings, genres and ratings are welcome! Bring on the recs!

NEW - CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF PARTICIPANTS!

Feel free to poke about at their journals and look for recs. Hopefully there'll be a rectober tag to assist you!
How to rec:

This is totally up to you - you can rec however you like. But if you're not sure how to get started, here is a reccing template, with the usual type of info. These are suggestions only. Some people like to write a lot, and include excerpts, but a simple link to the fic with a sentence or two about why you enjoyed it can be just as useful.

<b>Title</b>:<a href="link here">Title</a> <b>Author/Artist</b>: <b>Pairing(s)</b> <b>Rating</b>: <b>Word Count</b>: <b>Warnings</b>: <b>Summary</b>: <b>Why I loved it</b>: <b>Excerpt</b>:

You can rec on your own journal, or at reccing communities, or cross post to both. hd_storyroom is a reccing comm devoted to Harry/Draco, and they are happy to receive recs from any poster. If you know of others for your fandom / pairing feel free to promote in the comments.

You can rec fic, art, podfics, fanvids, meta posts, or any other fanworks.

If you post to your own journal, if possible please leave the post unflocked so that it's available to everyone. We'll have an ongoing list of contributors, so If you use a Rectober tag when you're reccing, it makes it easy for people browse those journals and track down rec posts.

If you don't want to write recs yourself:

You can still take part in Rectober by reading and commenting. It's great to let a reccer know if you enjoyed reading a fic they recced, or even if you haven't read the fic yet but just like the sound of it from their post.

Also, if you enjoy a fic that's been recced to you, you can let the writer know in a comment that you came to it via a rec. Often people feel like nobody reads their recs! I have heard this many times, and it sometimes puts people off writing rec posts.


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I hope you enjoy Rectober, whether you're a reccer, reader, commenter, artist, author or lurker. ♥

Comments

[gamma-x-orionis.livejournal.com]

I am so totally in! :D. So happy that this is happening again this year!

My goal is to rec at least 10 works during the month, and also to read (and comment on, of course) at least 5 works that other people rec. (Ideally, things that I wouldn't have seen or would have passed over if they weren't recommended)

[icmezzo.livejournal.com]

So eidheann_writes and I are reccing over on our Twitter reccing account @HPDMrecs. We haven't been doing a lot with it lately, but we're determined to keep up with career fair and such throughout the month. I'm not sure if it counts or not because it's not on LJ. But we're doing our thing in our way!

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[nerakrose]

i had so much fun with this last year that i want to do it again this year. :D

i have small goals this year because uni and work is super crazy this year (it's my final year in uni, so master's thesis coming up and all...) so i don't have as much time for fic reading as i'd like. (i've barely read any fic at all the past two months, it's horrible.)

so i'm going to be aiming at 1-5 recs a week, probably posting sundays. rs_games will be posting soon, so my recs will be focused on that fest, with maybe a few other things thrown in.

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[anemonen.livejournal.com]

I'm in! I hope to make at least two multiple rec posts. Maybe even one each week. I'm afraid to promise too much, though. Awesome initiative :D

[birdsofshore]

Brilliant, I'm glad you're joining us!

[birdsofshore]

Wonderful, thank you for the enthusiasm! \o/

[birdsofshore]

Yay, I like your goals! Glad you're joining us \o/

[birdsofshore]

Yay! This is great! Thanks for joining us \o/

[birdsofshore]

I love your goals! Thank you for participating!

[birdsofshore]

It definitely counts if there are a few words about why you're reccing the fic! I'll put a link in the participants list once I get it going \o/

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[birdsofshore]

Gasp! indeed! Good luck with that ;-)

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[birdsofshore]

Great to see you here, writ! \o/

I'm glad the timing works for you.

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[birdsofshore]

Your goals sound great! Welcome to Rectober 2014 \o/

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[birdsofshore]

\o/ Glad you can join us! It's going to be fun.

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[blue-eyed-1987.livejournal.com]

Podfic reccer signing up! I don't normally cross post my recs to LJ but I can do for this :D (I have a rec tumblr here: http://multifandompodficrecs.tumblr.com/)

I will rec at least 10 podfics this month! :)

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[blithelybonny.livejournal.com]

I can't promise to succeed, lol. ;)

[lumosed-quill.livejournal.com]

Of course! Puff power, right? \o/ :-D

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[evening12]

I'm going to sign up.

*ponders* I stumbled onto here from capitu post...I think maybe? I can't remember. But anyways here I am signing up.

My goal is to make a rec post once a week and that this rec post contains a minimum of 2 recs. To make the stakes higher, I also challenge myself to make femmeslash reccs :D

[susannah-wilde.livejournal.com]

Yay, I loved doing this last year, so I'm signing up for this again! :) I think I'll try to rec 3-5 fics a week at my reccing journal wilde_recs.

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[vix-spes.livejournal.com]

I'm in again ... planning on doing the same as last year and one post of recs per week.

[chibitoaster.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if I said or not, but I'm in!!

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[tryslora]

How do you feel about recs on tumblr? I'm trying to get my tumblr rec blog active again...

Also, HP only, or are we multi-fandom?

I'll aim for three per week... ideally I'll do more, but yeah. Three per week would be good!

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[birdsofshore]

I'd rather have them on LJ but I'll take what I can get ;-)

I've linked to your tumblr on the participants post, thanks! Maybe you can cross post, also?

Multifandom, definitely... and three per week is great!

[birdsofshore]

Thanks so much, I see you got started already! \o/

[birdsofshore]

Excellent!