Mandatory Check-In! Poll and Email Instructions

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

PART ONE: This poll portion is MANDATORY FOR ALL AUTHORS. The poll will stay open until August 19th. You need to be a member of this comm to fill out the poll (which you should already be, as per the Big Bang rules.)

[Poll #1769725]

If you haven't completed 9k or don't want an artist, the poll is all you need to do and you're done with the check-in.

PART TWO: If you want an artist to claim your story, you need to have completed 9k by the end of August 15th and also send an additional email to bigbang.het@gmail.com with the following:


WHAT YOU NEED TO EMAIL: (please read carefully!)

SUBJECT LINE: [LiveJournal name] [title of the story]

ATTACH: Your current draft of the story, attached in .doc or .txt format (whatever you send should be open and readable!) Please save this attachment as your LiveJournal name and then your title. For example: IRONYROCKS_titleofyourHETBBstoryhere.doc (or .txt, etc.). We don't care how rough the draft is, we just wanna make sure you've written at least 9k of it. The mods will be the only ones to see these attachments.

IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL:

Author name(s):
Fandom/Pairings:
Current Word Count and Expected Total Word Count:
Title:
Ratings/Warnings/Spoilers:
Summary for artist: (something that will look like the fic summary for the website. Don't worry, this isn't your final summary, but keep it interesting as it will entice the artists/readers!)
Beta(s): (if any, at this point.)

Paste into the body of the email 2-4 scenes that you'd like to see artwork for. (The artists are not obligated to choose one of these, but the scenes are meant to give them a starting point.) Each scene can be up to 1k. This portion is NOT optional if you want an artist. If you can't choose from anything you've written thus far, at least put down a detailed description of the scene so that the artist has something to work with.

Timezone question: if it is August 15th ANYWHERE ON EARTH, you can still send in your email.

Once your story is assigned an artist, you cannot change your fandom/pairing/story. If, however, you do not have an artist assigned to your story for whatever reason, then you can change your fandom/pairing/story uptil submitting your final work on September 25th.

If you don't want an artist assigned to your fic, for whatever reason, or have made arrangements for your own artist, then email the mods as such. Make sure your artists are signed up in our artists section, and just have them clarify that they are already tied to your particular story.

Also, we could always use more artists, as artist claiming will occur on August 20th and our writers vastly outweigh the number of artists currently signed up! Sign up!

Comments

[meekosan.livejournal.com]

WHOOT! So happy to hit the clickie that we're FINISHED!!!

ETA: Signed up as an artist too :)

[naushika.livejournal.com]

*does the walk of shame with her 4k words*

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Aww. There's always next year! Assuming I don't end up in a straight-jacket after modding this year.

[hariboo.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is odd, but lj not letting me fill out the poll. So here's the run down for my bigbang with little_giddy:
6k-8.9k
(We are) near the beginning
(I have completed 9k) and will send in my email before the 15th is up
(We feel) reasonably optimistic that I will finish this big bang

Now for my solo one (BC I'M NUTSO):
0-5k
(I am) near the beginning
(I have completed 9k) not applicable and have found/will find my own artist for this BigBang
(I feel) like I have no clue whether I will finish, but I'll try like crazy!

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Are you a member of this comm? Because you need to be to participate in this poll!

[lanna-kitty.livejournal.com]

I am flailing like woah over the scenes here. I feel like I am halfway done with my plot (I may be further? I dunno) and I don't have all the interesting scenes in the end written yet and my outline beyond where I have written is extreeeemely skeletal and I'm revising some stuff and what if what I think is interesting is totally not to someone else? *flails like a flailing thing*


So uhm I guess I want to know, how much should I really be stressing over this?

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you need to cut back on the caffeine! You got over a month to finish this! YOU GOT THIS, LANNA_KITTY! THE FORCE IS WITH YOU. And honestly, I've seen you write three times this amount in less time, so I have faith.

[mekosuchinae.livejournal.com]

As best as I know, I've got the artist thing squared away; a friend has signed up as an artist and I believe she's still planning to illustrate my story. Do we still need to do the formal artist claim or what, precisely? (It is possible she might not be available, in which case I might need to send you an e-mail with the deets for the artist claims after all.)

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

You kinda need to decide today if you want het_bigbang to look for an artist for you, or if you want to rely on the person you already have tagged. Either way, go ahead and send me the email and tell me how you're playing it!

[svgurl.livejournal.com]

I tried, but I have to drop out. EVen if I make the 9K minimum, I don't think I can drag my plot out and make the 25K one. Sorry. :(

[fangirlism]

*avoids this poll until she hits the 9k mark* I can do it, I can!

[fringedweller.livejournal.com]

Done and done! If only I could say the same for my startrekbigbang, bah.

[littlestclouds.livejournal.com]

I have to drop out. :( Maybe next year.

[obsessivemuch1.livejournal.com]

I'm doing really badly, but I'm not willing to give up just yet. I do want to write this story, but the original work has to has to come first.

[gelbes-gilatier.livejournal.com]

OMG I TOTALLY MISSED CHECKPOINT!

Or, okay, I can send you the draft but I have to find a way to pull an excerpt out of it since my laptop died on Saturday and even though I have a backup of the story, all other computers at home don't have a word processor installed. Can I please get an extension of one day so I can find a way to put on excerpt in the e-mail, as well as the actual story file if I don't manage it on the 15th? PLEASE?

[syd15.livejournal.com]

I think there is a solution for you... Google Docs.

You can upload your document to google docs open it and copy/paste the parts you want into the email. I'm 99% percent sure you don't have to have a text editor installed in your pc to be able to use google docs. But I think you do need to have a google account (gmail).

[lonelywalker.livejournal.com]

Woot, email sent.

*feeling quite positive about this now*

*may just be insane*

[angelqueen04.livejournal.com]

AWESOME! Fic has been off to the beta for about a week now, and I'm expecting it back any day now. Then I can do the corrections/edits/rewrite, and I WILL BE DONE BABY! *twirls*

Of course, once that happens, I'll be backing the story up in about fifty different places. Just in case there's an apocalypse or something. ;)

[ozqueen]

QUESTION:

I haven't decided on a title yet. Er, I'm hoping it's cool that my doc will be named something like OZQUEEN_untitled.doc D:

Annnnd I'm avoiding the poll and writing like mad, trying to get up to 9k. I recently restarted everything :p Though I am using snippets from other drafts, so I'm pretty confident I'll have 9k by the time I need to.

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I'd rather you have a title so that the artist could utilize it, if they wish, in their artwork. But if you don't have it, keep it "Untilted" yes!

[regularamanda.livejournal.com]

I'm seriously considering the merits of writing like mad, and coming up with 5k in the next few hours...O.o (I have about 4K right now) Hmmmm!

[ozqueen]

Go go go! That's what I'm doing as well ;-)

[rise-your-dead.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha, hitting last thousand words this afternoon, and emailing final product by four PM my time.

[csichick-2.livejournal.com]

I'm not quite at 9k yet, but I'm hoping to be by the end of the day, so I'm not filling out the poll until later.

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

I have to drop out, too.

Just too much other stuff going on. Very sad. :(

Maybe I'll save my plot for NaNo this year. I could maybe make it 50k.

[idharao.livejournal.com]

my laptop died. this is a very sad day.

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

WOE.

[slumber.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I thought I sent my email out yesterday but I had to switch from laptop to mobile AND GMAIL MOBILE CUT HALF OF IT OUT. D:

I WILL send you the email again later today, but I'm at work and won't be home until the early evening. Sorry! :(

[derevko-child.livejournal.com]

I've been busy and have only written 2.5k words so far -_- I'm pretty confident I'll finish this, though, so... yay?

[vickysg1.livejournal.com]

I've just mastered the 9K (writing 3K today), and I'm so happy for this, and now, it looks like my Muse is back and willing to help me write this fic (which is a relief).

Will send the e-mail after dinner (because my Mom's already yelling that dinner's ready), and after I added a part that I'd like my artist to use for a graphic.

[mudg3t.livejournal.com]

SO my writing plans for the past weekend and last night completely went to pot. Thanks, work :/ BUT I've not given up yet! NEVER!

I don't really care if I don't have an artist allocated, and tbh this is the least of my concerns! I'd rather focus on writing a good fic than pushing out plop for the sake of an artist :/ And realistically, I'm thinking there won't be all that many signing on for such a small fandom anyway ;)

I can do it, I WILL do it! I just... haven't reached the 9k yet :/ It's all good, right? RIGHT O.o

[mudg3t.livejournal.com]

Um, I realise this is most likely a fairly stupid question and apologies for the vagueness (though in my defence it is almost 4am and I've been up since 7am yesterday). But, um, if we don't want an artist and haven't yet reached the 9k do we still email it in?

Sorry mods *bows meekly before your infinite wisdom and pleads for clemency*

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

But, um, if we don't want an artist and haven't yet reached the 9k do we still email it in?

No need to email! Just fill out the poll!

[badboy-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Sent mine!