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

RECCERS SIGN UP HERE:

[birdsofshore]

Please sign in here and I'll start making a list of participants!

Whether you're planning to write one rec post during Rectober, or 3 times a day, all recs are welcome and we'd love you to join us.

Add your reccing goals to your comment if you want.

Re: RECCERS SIGN UP HERE:

[birdsofshore]

Birdsofshore signing up. ;-)

MY GOAL: I'm going to try to make a weekly rec post, and I'm intending that this will contain at least 3 recs each time.

Re: RECCERS SIGN UP HERE:

[capitu]

You know I'm doing this! :D

OMG, I'm about to commit to something. Maybe?

[emansil-12.livejournal.com]

I usually fail in all sorts of ways at reccing anything, but I'm willing to throw my hat into the ring.

Goals: to rec at least one thing before the 31 days are up. And to read at least 10% of all things recced.

Re: OMG, I'm about to commit to something. Maybe?

[birdsofshore]

I'm delighted you're going to participate! Thank you!

[vaysh]

You make it so easy, so I am in. :)
Making at least four recs in October.

[birdsofshore]

\o/ Yay Vaysh! Thank you for participating.

[huldrejenta.livejournal.com]

I'm in :)

I'll try to make one rec post a week. I'll probably mostly rec from current fests that I'm following, and anything else that enters my radar :)

[birdsofshore]

Brilliant! I'm personally hoping for some current recs, to help me keep up with all of the fests.

Thanks for participating <3

[indyonblue.livejournal.com]

Perfect timing! I've got a rec post to do for Drizzle so I'll save it for the 1st October :)

[birdsofshore]

Brilliant! I look forward to it!

[dragontara]

I enjoyed last year's Rectober so much that I'm willing to try again :)

My goal is to make a rec post once a week even if I haven't had much time for reading lately.

So good to join Rectober again!

[birdsofshore]

Wonderful, thank you for the enthusiasm! \o/

[nia_kantorka]

Yay, ready to rec.
I'm going to try 2-3 rec posts a week. I'm planning it like this: one for H/D, one for other pairings, one for other fandoms. Hope it'll work out. :)

[birdsofshore]

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

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

Ready to rec!

My goal is at least 4 rec posts in October, with at least 2 recs/post. Going to try to keep up with Career Fair and take Rectober as an incentive to plow through my massive reading list.

Excited to play, and very excited for all of these other brilliant people's recs!

[birdsofshore]

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

[lumosed-quill.livejournal.com]

I'm in!

My goal is to do AT LEAST one rec post per week (hopefully two or even three) with AT LEAST one story or piece of art per post (hopefully more like two or three). So anywhere between one work per week and nine. Ten is right out! ;-) :-)

[birdsofshore]

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

[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)

[birdsofshore]

I love your goals! Thank you for participating!

[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!

[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/

[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.

[birdsofshore]

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

[chibitoaster.livejournal.com]

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

[birdsofshore]

Excellent!

[alba17.livejournal.com]

I'm signing up! My goal will be one rec post per week. I'll be posting to DW/LJ and also to annaluna.tumblr.com.

[birdsofshore]

That's great, thank you for joining us!

[barefacedbandit.livejournal.com]

Me! Meee! I'm in! I am planning on doing as many recs as possible to make up for being a non-entity on LJ for the past few months. I'm going to say at least 3 a week, but I'll try for more. It's going to be awesome :D

[birdsofshore]

Oooh, awesome indeed! And you just scored one of the first recs yourself, I was happy to see :D

NOEON Signing UP

[noeon.livejournal.com]

ZOMG this is such a great idea! I'm going to try daily and panfandom.

[daleah.livejournal.com]

Can I sing up? I know it's little late, but I want to rec hp art, because almost no one makes recs of art...

[birdsofshore]

Not too late at all! November, now that would be too late. You have loads of time :D

[significantowl.livejournal.com]

Signing up! This looks awesome :)

I'm going to shoot for one rec post a week, 3+ recs each time. I'll use the rectober tag! :-)

[birdsofshore]

Thank you! Really glad to have you participating!

[arenee1999]

I'll sign up! I'll try for 1 rec post per week with multiple recs (at least 2-3) per post.

[birdsofshore]

Wonderful! Thank you for participating!

[isisanubis.livejournal.com]

Signing up. I'm aiming for one post a week, with a couple/few things in each.

[birdsofshore]

Thank you very much for supporting Rectober :)

[prfctdaze.livejournal.com]

I'd like to sign up. I'm going to shoot for 1 rec post per week, hopefully at least 3 things each post. I want to be more active on LJ and this will be a good way to do that :)

[birdsofshore]

That sounds great! Thanks for signing up! \o/

[lokifan]

I'm gonna be reccing 50 fanworks this month :) Have posted 10 so far!

[birdsofshore]

Awesome goal! \o/ Have fun!

[unbidden-truth.livejournal.com]

Hi! I hope it's not too late to sign up? I'm hoping to post at least one rec post per week for the remaining three weeks of October :)

[birdsofshore]

It's not too late at all! Very glad to have you join us \o/