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Dioga beta wrote: Is there a limit to how many entries one can have for the Writing Con? Cause I was thinking of having a couple different ones, one for different series. Hi Dioga, it appears you are very new to Fanon Con (I've checked, and you seem to have no Fanon Con page for yourself) so I'll explain everything you need to know.

What Is Fanon Con?
Fanon Con is an event on the wiki that is held for times annually, on the last Friday-Sunday of March, June, September, and December. The purpose of Fanon Con is to allow users to reveal information and perhaps spoilers about their series in a controlled setting, with a high possibility of other users viewing them due it being advertised, both for signups and when the actual con begins, in highlighted forum threads.

Fanon Con is made up of three events: The Actual "Fanon Convention", a Writing Contest, and a third event that has not been revealed to the public yet.

The Actual Fanon Convention
To sign up, you go to (this thread) and say "I sign up for Fanon Con", like you did.

Once you announce you have signed up, its time to create a page for you. For this part of Fanon Con, users create their own Special:MyPage/Fanon Con pages. Now, when you click this, it will lead me to a yet-to-be-made page called User:Dioga beta/Fanon Con. When I click it, it will lead me to a already-made page called User:Sci100/Fanon Con, because I have already been in Fanon Con. Make the page.

When you make the page, use  at the very end to hide the submission. Do not add the Fanon Con category to the submission.

Submissions may be any length and contain information regarding to any number of series. Any submission will be accepted as long as it follows the general policies and guidelines of the wiki. You yourself can only have one entry, meaning all our infomation about your shows will go on User:Dioga beta/Fanon Con. The only exception to this is if you and 1+ person decide to share an entry for a particular project(s). Please ask permission to do a multiple user entry though.

All submissions should use Template:Fanon Con Submission to make it easier for the host. If you need help with the template, you can ask for it of course, but try and mess around with the template before you ask for help.

Writing Contest
Last Spring, we introduced a new part to Fanon Con. The Writing Contest! This is a general contest with two categories. One is for NEW USERS (Users who joined after June 28, 2013) and another is for EXPERIENCED USERS (Users who joined before June 28, 2013).

Both Categories share a theme that they will use to write a submission for the Writing Contest. The Theme of this Contest is "Take a Ben 10 Original Series episode (with the exception of And Then There Were Ten, Gwen 10, Ben 10,000, Ken 10, Goodbye and Good Riddance, and Secret of the Omnitrix), and put your own unique twist on the episode". So, you will choose one of the non-banned episodes, and rewrite it in your words, changing something or somethings in the process. The change should affect how the episode goes, but the ending of the episode should pretty much stay the same for the most part. So for example, I'll copy/paste Paper's explanation:

For an example, I'll use one of the banned episodes. If you were using And Then There Were 10 as the basis of your entry, you might have it be in the middle of the winter in Bellwood and have the Omnitrix crash into the school. But the basic idea of the episode would be the same (Ben gets the omnitrix, saves the area). <== Get the idea?

To sign up, all you have to do is say that you will do the contest on this thread. Users get until 2 days before Fanon Con to work on the episode. They are to place it in Special:MyPage/Fanon Con Writing Contest. If the user joined after June 28th, 2013, put NEW USER CATEGORY at the top. If they joined before then, put EXPERIENCED USER CATEGORY. A winner will be chosen out the New Users category and the Experienced users category (so there are two winners). Please use use  at the very end to hide the submission.

Overall

 * You have two things to write: An entry for Fanon Con (where you will post all your information about shows, projects, etc.) and an entry for the Writing Contest (where you will take one of the original episodes of Ben 10, and rewrite it with a unique twist you come up with).
 * You only have one entry per user unless you're sharing an entry with another user(s) for a special project
 * Both are due on June 24th, 2014.
 * Have fun! :D