2018 Author Sign Ups!

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WRITER'S REQUIREMENTS AND INFO








WRITER'S REQUIREMENTS AND INFO

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What type of requirements are there for a writer?
There are two portions of the Bang Challenge for Writers! The Big Bang and the Little Bang.

The Big Bang is basically what we did every year: Your fic must be completed and at least 20,000 words long. Writers accomplishing this goal will get an artist assigned to them by the comm, and they will receive artwork for their story!

The Little Bang challenge is ditto to the above, but only at least 10,000 words long. There will be no assigned artists for these stories. (Authors can go out and find themselves an artist, if they want, but they MUST inform the mods that they have made these arrangements. Just so we can approve them for the collection submissions, when the time comes.)

All stories must focus on or revolve around a het pairing of your choosing, and mandatorily beta-read before the posting date. At the time of signing up for this, you need to know the following: a) what you think you'll be writing (fandom/pairing, prompt -- and yeah, you can change your mind later all the way until the Mandatory Author Check-point in July!); b) whether you are participating in the Big Bang challenge or the Little Bang challenge (and yes, you can change your mind later on, all the way up to the Mandatory Author Check-point in July.) c.) whether you already have an A03 account, and if not, that you will be willing to acquire one before the submission deadline. d.) give us your e-mail address; and e) Then go to join het_bigbang AND friend the community. You *must* join and friend for updates; it's a requirement to participate in this challenge.


Define a qualified het pairing, please!
Any het pairing, any fandom. Crossovers, fusions crossovers, genderbender het and RPF (Real Person Fic) are all allowed. There may be more than one het pairing in the fic. There may be other secondary slash or femslash pairings within the fic, as long as a het pairing is the primary focus. Slash, threesomes or moresomes should NOT be your focus. But what if our fic is, like, more gen but with a hint of ship? Um, that probably doesn't qualify. We want a het pairing as a primary focus. We are not going to psychoanalze how "shippy" the fic you're writing is, but please use your best judgment. Original Works based on your creations are also allowed. All standard rules/procedures apply.


Can I sign up more than once as an author? I've got so many plotbunnies!
Yes, you can sign up as an author twice! Both times for the Big Bang, or both times for the Little Bang, or in both the Little Bang and the Big Bang! Your choice. However, it must be for stories centered around different pairings. (Same fandom is fine.) Don't sign up twice for the same pairing. You must sign up twice in the Author's sign up post with separate comments, so I am crystal clear that you are participating twice!


I don't know what to write! I've got so many ideas!
We're here to help! While you can change your plotbunny at any time, we're also offering you this post to help figure things out. You provide descriptions of up to five of your plotbunnies, and we put up a poll here to see what people are interested in. No obligation to go with the winner, but it might help you choose!


I've already been writing a het pairing story already. Can I use that?
Was it written for last year’s Het Big Bang/Little Bang and just never completed? If so, sure!

If not…. then for the Little Bang, you gotta start fresh. Sorry.

However, either way, for the Big Bang you are allowed to use a WIP if it's less than 10k written. Ideally, your story should not have appeared anywhere on the net already, and if it hasn't been posted anywhere, you only have to reach the goal of 20k total. However, if you do already have a couple thousand words of it up somewhere public (at max, 5k), then we won't count that towards your total 20k requirement, and you must immediately take it off the internet completely for the duration of the challenge.


Can I write with someone else?
Yes, you may co-author your big bang if you want to.


TIMELINE
Author Sign Ups - open till June 24th, 12:00 PM (NOON) EST
Mandatory Author Checkpoint - August 15th
Artist Claiming of Big Bang Stories - August 20th
Art and Fics Due - September 26th, 11:59 PM (Midnight) EST (here is a timezone converter.)
Debut Date (DD) - October 1st


More info here at our FAQ post!

Sign Up

If you'd like to participate, please reply to this post with ALL the following information. All comments are unscreened.

I have read the sign-up rules and the Big-Ass FAQ post: Y/N
LJ or DW Name: Name of author (and co-authors, if any)
AO3 Name: (If you have one. If you don’t, then you agree that you will acquire one before the submission deadline.)
Email: Mandatory.
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Pick one. You can change your mind later on, up till the Author Mandatory Check point.
Fandom/Pairing: (fandom/pairing, prompt -- and yeah, you can change your mind later! If you're going to use our polling option to help figure out what fandom/pairing/prompt you're going to be using, then just say: "will poll.")

Copy and paste the contents of the textbox into a comment, and answer the lines:
<b>I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post</b>: Y/N <b>LJ Name:</b> <b>DW Name:</b> <b>AO3 Name:</b> <b>Email:</B> <b>Big Bang or Little Bang Participant:</b> <b>Fandom/Pairing:</b> (fandom/pairing, prompt -- and yeah, you can change your mind later!)

Once you've done that, go join het_bigbang and be sure to friend the comm as well, as membership and friending are required for all participants.

Comments

[shopfront]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y (the old version, do you want me to come back and confirm I've read the new version once it's up?)
LJ Name: N/a
DW Name: shopfront
AO3 Name: shopfront
Email: eleara at gmail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Hopefully Big Bang, but I'll see how I'm going with my word count:planned scenes left to write ratio by the mandatory checkin. My original estimate was 15k, but I tend to write longer than I expect, so hopeful but could go either way.
Fandom/Pairing: Sanctuary, Helen Magnus/Will Zimmerman, post-series fic about life in the new underground Sanctuary (Ie continuing the fic that got mostly lost in last years computer crash)

[laurapalmer]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: laurapalmer
DW Name: laurapalmer
AO3 Name: potionsmistressm
Email: potionsmistressm@aol.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang (hopefully)
Fandom/Pairing: Anastasia/Jafar (Once Upon A Time in Wonderland), AU based on my fever-dream interpretation of Heart's "Magic Man."

[laurapalmer]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: laurapalmer
DW Name: laurapalmer
AO3 Name: potionsmistressm
Email: potionsmistressm@aol.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang, hopefully
Fandom/Pairing: The Sims 3, Don Lothario/MaryKay Shallow (the story of what happened to Don after his teleportation accident)

[red_b_rackham]

OHMYGOSH - I have never seen a Sims story before, and I straight up cackled because DON LOTHARIO!! I have been binge playing Sims 4 lately and I am SO into seeing what you will do with this. :D

[laurapalmer]

Oh, God, I was hoping to hide in the corner where no one would see me.

[human_veil]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Yes.
LJ Name: snax0
DW Name: human_veil
AO3 Name: humanveil
Email: contact.snaxo@gmail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang, hopefully!
Fandom/Pairing: Law & Order: SVU - Elliot/Olivia. Canon divergent S12, in which everything falls apart before it finally comes together.

[laurapalmer]

I want to see this so bad! :)

[human_veil]

Hopefully I'll get it done in time! :)

[samuraiter]

I Have Read the Sign-Up Rules and This FAQ Post: Y
LJ Name: ....
DW Name: samuraiter
AO3 Name: samuraiter
E-Mail: samuraiterex (at) gmail (dot) com
Big Bang Or Little Bang Participant: Little Bang
Fandom / Pairing: Fire Emblem Heroes – Xander / Veronica

[badritual]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: littlestclouds
DW Name: outruntheavalanche
AO3 Name: outruntheavalanche
Email: notstragic at gmail
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Little (for now)
Fandom/Pairing: Pitch, Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson, future!fic where Mike becomes the Padres' pitching coach which complicates his and Ginny's already complex relationship

[raktajinos]

I NEED THIS IN MY LIFFEEEEEEEEE

[saddestboner]

This is outruntheavalanche. I'm signing up twice but under different usernames, as I don't post RPF to my main AO3 account/DW/etc.

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: littlestclouds
DW Name: thesaddestboner
AO3 Name: thesaddestboner
Email: same as outruntheavalanche
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Little
Fandom/Pairing: Hockey, Hilary Knight/Frederik Andersen, either woke-up-married-in-Vegas or FWBs who develop inconvenient feelings (OR Baseball, José Iglesias/James McCann, sexswap)

[blastellanos]

[mrburns.gif]

[badritual]

👀👀👀👀

[jedibuttercup]

I have read the sign-up rules and the Big-Ass FAQ post: Y
LJ or DW Name: jedibuttercup
AO3 Name: jedibuttercup
Email: jedi [underscore] buttercup [at] yahoo [dot] com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang, for now
Fandom/Pairing: Sleepy Hollow, Ichabod/Abbie. The fourth of my planned five "what if Ichabod acted instead of just witnessing" stories (I wrote the third last year, and the second for the 2016 bang). The two options left are both divergence AUs set during Season 2; either the middle of the end of the season. Not sure yet which I'm going to tackle. :)

[blastellanos]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: dinahqueen
DW Name: blastellanos
AO3 Name: blastellanos
Email: chemistry.kitty@gmail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang
Fandom/Pairing: Baseball RPF | James McCann/f!José Iglesias | James and f!José meet during the olympics and have a whirlwind romance and don't see each other for many years, as circumstances prevent James from returning. f!José and James's paths cross again years later...

[badritual]

[screaming internally]

[lordoflions]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: N/A
DW Name: lordoflions
AO3 Name: thundersolstice
Email: sncrf [at] protonmail [dot] com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang
Fandom/Pairing: Thundercats 2011 - Lion-O/Wilykit - Pre-series AU in which the crown prince is happily raising a secret family with a slum girl...and then the king finds out.

[naughty_sock]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Yes
LJ Name: --
DW Name: naughty_sock
AO3 Name: naughty_sock
Email: haynonnynonny@web.de
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Little Bang (for now.)
Fandom/Pairing: The Guest - David/Anna - Anna gets revenge for the death of her parents- dark!fic

[jiokra]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
DW Name: jiokra
AO3 Name: jiokra
Email: I will PM it
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Little bang most likely
Fandom/Pairing: genderswapped Sam/Frodo from the movies, with female!Frodo/male!Sam

[bwblack]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Yep, think they were the ones from last year given the date but I read them.
LJ Name: bybwblack
DW Name: bwblack
AO3 Name: bwblack
Email: bybrandy @ gmail dot com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Little Bang can I be at 20,000 words and still qualify for little bang? I just don't think I'll get an artist with my tiny, tiny, tiny fandom.
Fandom/Pairing: (fandom/pairing, prompt -- and yeah, you can change your mind later!) A Place to Call Home Carolyn and Jack

[quotemyfoot]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Yes
LJ Name: --
DW Name: quotemyfoot
AO3 Name: quotemyfoot
Email: quotemyfoot@yahoo.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang
Fandom/Pairing: Fire Emblem, probably Maribelle/Lon'qu dealing with an assassination conspiracy but not 100% decided

[semperdormientes]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: N/A
DW Name: semperdormientes
AO3 Name: vindiya
Email: kitera.ai@gmail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big, most likely.
Fandom/Pairing: MCU, Bucky Barnes/Darcy Lewis

[fleetsparrow]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: fleetsparrow
DW Name: fleetsparrow
AO3 Name: fleetsparrow
Email: bsykitty@gmail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: I'll shoot for a Big Bang because that's what I do to myself.
Fandom/Pairing: Grayson, Dick Grayson (Agent 37)/Helena Bertinelli (Matron)

[weaselett]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: weaselett
DW Name: weaselett
AO3 Name: weaselett
Email: weaselett @ googlemail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang
Fandom/Pairing: Trekverse - OC pairing takes place during and post TNG&DSN era, Andrew/Ramona (also known as the fic I tried and failed to write last year but revamped plot)

[weaselett]

I have read the sign-up rules and the FAQ post: Y
LJ Name: weaselett
DW Name: weaselett
AO3 Name: weaselett
Email: weaselett @ googlemail.com
Big Bang or Little Bang Participant: Big Bang
Fandom/Pairing: Criminal Minds, Female!Hotch/Morgan, I think, at this point, friends to lovers kinda thing....maybe