Hello again Nine Lives family, friends, Caryl fans, Carol lovers, loyal Daryl followers, McReedusites, guests and everyone in between! We, your loyal Nine Lives admins, have decided that to celebrate the upcoming holiday season, we needed not just a challenge or two, but something extra special.

Which means I get to bust out my favorite gif!

This holiday season, we are hosting the first ever Caryl Team Write!

A Team Write is an open collaboration on a story from start to finish. Where with a Round Robin, the authors involved are reactive from one chapter to the next and don’t know what’s coming until the chapters are published - in a Team Write, everyone on the team gets to plot their story together from start to finish. Plot together, write together, publish together.

We want to see how you guys work together to create the best winter/holiday Caryl story you can! Angsty, fluffy, smutty, action packed, drama filled silliness - anything goes!

The best part: you can pick your team! We know some of you really want to be paired with your best buddies for a challenge, so we’re going to let you.

How many teams are we talking? Well, that depends on just how many people sign up. We want as many teams as possible, and while the teams do not have to have equal numbers of members, there will be no more than 5 members per team (and no less than 2, because duh).

There are a lot more details to share, because we’re doing everything different with this challenge, but those will be disclosed later. Here’s what you need to know to sign up:

• Sign up for this challenge by sending a PM to Fairies Masquerade. You have 2 choices:

  • Option 1: Send a PM with the people you want to be on your team (it would help if you talked to them first to make sure everyone is on the same page) OR

  • Option 2: Send a PM saying you want to play & you don’t care who you get paired up with

• All team members must be registered for an account on Nine Lives! If they’re new for the challenge, that’s totally fine, but they need to be registered to participate

• Sign ups are open through Monday, November 16.

• Teams will be announced on Thursday, November 19. You will then have several weeks to get together to plan and write your stories!

• Story posting will occur from December 1 - December 18 (we will expand on this in the Team Announcement post on November 19)

So there you have it! It’s going to be an epic fest of holiday awesomeness here on Nine Lives, so come be part of the fun! Questions, please comment here or PM an admin. Caryl on, my lovelies!