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Call for Authors - Spock/Uhura Round Robin
We've been having fun brainstorming ideas in the chat thread and came up with this idea for writing 50 AU fics semi-inspired by 50 First Dates in a round robin style.
It would be really cool to get 50 separate AUs from as many people who wanted to contribute, and because it's not a traditional round robin, you wouldn't have to wait for other people to finish their parts before you started writing. Just write a Spock/Uhura inspired AU fic and submit it. The requirements are pretty minimal.
It's open to all genres and I'd prefer to keep it past tense just for consistency. I'd also like to keep the rating M or below. Also, I'd like chapters to be a minimum of 1,000 words and probably no more than 5,000, but for the sake of creativity, length requirements shouldn't be though of as a strict requirement: they're only intended as a guide. A good story is as long as it needs to be, so if you can do it in 750 words or you need 7,500 to develop it, so be it. Really, that's about it.
Since all AUs need a good backstory, the basic premise of the story is this:
It's about six months post-Beyond and Spock and Uhura are part of a landing party. The honeymoon phase following their breakup and reunion in Beyond is over and they're starting to fall into a rut and bicker again. On the away mission, Nyota sustains a head injury and ends up in a coma and begins dreaming up all these alternate lives, similar to the events of the Wizard of Oz. Every day she wakes up in a new life and in each incarnation of her new, dreamed up alternate reality, Spock is there and there's some kind of romantic tension between them: they're either dating, friends, competing against each other, casual acquaintances, meet for the first time, etc. Then through this progression of realities, Nyota realizes just how much she loves Spock.
There's a Google doc that @KerryLamb started with a sign-up sheet for ideas so no one does the same type of AU fic. I'm still working out the details of how to submit chapters and who's going to beta, but I was just making this post to get an idea of who all would be interested and what kind of stories people wanted to submit.
As of tonight, these are the only AUs claimed so far: 1950s sock hop - TomFooleryPrime
Nyota's a recluse with agorophobia in NYC and Spock is the takeout food delivery man - TomFooleryPrime
Spock and Nyota are competitive mountain climbers vying to be the first to summit a mountain - TomFooleryPrime
Slasher film/Friday 13th crossover - TomFooleryPrime
Spock and Uhura go to a Trek convention - NWCountrygirl17
Regency period/Jane Austen crossover - NWCountrygirl17
Marvel universe crossover - NWCountrygirl17
Groundhog Day - NW Countrygirl17
X-Files crossover - powmeow
Harry Potter crossover - powmeow




This sounds like a lot of fun!! I have a few ideas, but I was wondering: for each AU, does she know that something's off with what's going on, or does she go along with it as if the AU is her normal life? Because I can think of some scenarios for each of those circumstances
Great question. I was thinking she would go along with it as if were her normal life, that way authors wouldn't have to coordinate with each other as much and each AU would be more standalone. To make it flow better within the context of the story, you might start them with her waking up, but I don't suppose it's absolutely necessary.
Ok cool! This is like, the perfect opportunity for me to write a small bit of that Pirate AU I've been itching to try out. So if that one's not taken yet, I'd like to claim it please :D
Yaaaar. Enjoy. :)
That is going to be so awesome!
I guess it's clear to say that I'm in! I'll comment again with which kind of date or dates I'd like our pairing to do.