het_bigbang | Mandatory Check-In! Poll and Email Instructions (Reply)

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!