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luciferxdamien2019-09-25 09:21 pm
HetBang 2019-2020 Announcements
We thank everyone that left us feedback in the survey, it’s been super helpful in letting us know what the community wants from this Bang challenge! We’re almost ready to post the updated rules and schedule! Here are some notable changes for this year:
The writing period will be longer. Originally, we were looking at story reveals being in April, but that put story claims in January. That seemed too chaotic with the holidays, so the reveal date will be in May now, giving everyone a whole month longer to write!
There will be an amnesty posting date. This will be one last chance to post your works for the current Bang!
Sign-ups will be run through Google Forms. This keeps information in one place for us mods to easily look through. It also means you don’t need to post your email in a public space!
Joining the comm is not necessary. It’s no longer necessary to join the comm in order to participate! We have participants coming from different platforms, who may not want to make a DreamWidth or LiveJournal account. All important announcements will be emailed out to all participants, so please sign-up with an email address you check frequently!
Unposted WIPs are allowed, no matter when they were started. If you have an unposted WIP with a het pairing you’ve been writing for, say, 10 years, and you want to use the Het Bang as motivation to finish it, great! Please do! WIPs that are posted are not eligible for the Bang.
Posting guidelines have been removed from the Rules/FAQ posts. The posting guidelines will get their own updated post in April. Ao3 has changed a lot since the original guidelines were written, and Tinypic has shut down, so the current screenshots are no longer available and we want to give everyone more accurate information for posting.
Beta readers and cheerleaders no longer need to sign-up. If you’re looking to offer beta reading services, or be a cheerleader, we’ve got our HetBang Discord server where a channel is set up just for offering these services. There is also the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
het_banghelp comm, where a post will be set up just for offering these services as well!
The Little Bang is now eligible to receive a fanwork through the comm, though an accompanying fanwork is not guaranteed. There were some requests for the Little Bang to be eligible for the story claiming process, after all Big Bang stories have been claimed. This means that Little Bang works may not receive an accompanying fanwork. Big Bang stories are guaranteed to get an accompanying fanwork, if the author wishes.
Rough drafts will be implemented this year for the story claiming process. The survey showed that twice as many people preferred to send in a rough draft vs. snippets. Please read the below information on rough draft submissions.
Rough drafts will only be submitted to the mods, to verify the length is at a certain percentage. The percentage needed to turn in a rough draft will be finalized once we have a schedule put together. For this example, we will use 80% for the percentage needed to turn in a rough draft, with an idea of the ending in mind. This means that at least 16k needs to be written before submitting a rough draft for an accompanying fanwork. This does not have to be polished writing!
Mods will only check this document for length and to make sure it's not placeholder text, such as lorem ipsum. After story claims take place, authors will be responsible for sending their rough draft to their fanworker. (Authors are encouraged to keep writing during the submission and claiming process, since there is a week or more gap!) Authors and fanworkers should then discuss if the fanworker wants the rough draft, or snippets, or some combination. Remember to work as a team and discuss things with each other! This does not mean it needs to be an entirely collaborative event if that's not what you want, just keep in contact with each other and be open to new ideas!
Fanworkers will get about 2 months to complete their fanwork(s). Authors will get about 2 months to finish writing and polish their story or stories!
If you have any questions or concerns, here is the Page-A Mod Post. You can also contact the mods via email, thehetbigbang@gmail.com, or by messaging LuciferxDamien or JesterLady on the HetBang Discord server.
The writing period will be longer. Originally, we were looking at story reveals being in April, but that put story claims in January. That seemed too chaotic with the holidays, so the reveal date will be in May now, giving everyone a whole month longer to write!
There will be an amnesty posting date. This will be one last chance to post your works for the current Bang!
Sign-ups will be run through Google Forms. This keeps information in one place for us mods to easily look through. It also means you don’t need to post your email in a public space!
Joining the comm is not necessary. It’s no longer necessary to join the comm in order to participate! We have participants coming from different platforms, who may not want to make a DreamWidth or LiveJournal account. All important announcements will be emailed out to all participants, so please sign-up with an email address you check frequently!
Unposted WIPs are allowed, no matter when they were started. If you have an unposted WIP with a het pairing you’ve been writing for, say, 10 years, and you want to use the Het Bang as motivation to finish it, great! Please do! WIPs that are posted are not eligible for the Bang.
Posting guidelines have been removed from the Rules/FAQ posts. The posting guidelines will get their own updated post in April. Ao3 has changed a lot since the original guidelines were written, and Tinypic has shut down, so the current screenshots are no longer available and we want to give everyone more accurate information for posting.
Beta readers and cheerleaders no longer need to sign-up. If you’re looking to offer beta reading services, or be a cheerleader, we’ve got our HetBang Discord server where a channel is set up just for offering these services. There is also the
het_banghelp comm, where a post will be set up just for offering these services as well! The Little Bang is now eligible to receive a fanwork through the comm, though an accompanying fanwork is not guaranteed. There were some requests for the Little Bang to be eligible for the story claiming process, after all Big Bang stories have been claimed. This means that Little Bang works may not receive an accompanying fanwork. Big Bang stories are guaranteed to get an accompanying fanwork, if the author wishes.
Rough drafts will be implemented this year for the story claiming process. The survey showed that twice as many people preferred to send in a rough draft vs. snippets. Please read the below information on rough draft submissions.
How Rough Drafts Will Work
Rough drafts will only be submitted to the mods, to verify the length is at a certain percentage. The percentage needed to turn in a rough draft will be finalized once we have a schedule put together. For this example, we will use 80% for the percentage needed to turn in a rough draft, with an idea of the ending in mind. This means that at least 16k needs to be written before submitting a rough draft for an accompanying fanwork. This does not have to be polished writing!
Mods will only check this document for length and to make sure it's not placeholder text, such as lorem ipsum. After story claims take place, authors will be responsible for sending their rough draft to their fanworker. (Authors are encouraged to keep writing during the submission and claiming process, since there is a week or more gap!) Authors and fanworkers should then discuss if the fanworker wants the rough draft, or snippets, or some combination. Remember to work as a team and discuss things with each other! This does not mean it needs to be an entirely collaborative event if that's not what you want, just keep in contact with each other and be open to new ideas!
Fanworkers will get about 2 months to complete their fanwork(s). Authors will get about 2 months to finish writing and polish their story or stories!
If you have any questions or concerns, here is the Page-A Mod Post. You can also contact the mods via email, thehetbigbang@gmail.com, or by messaging LuciferxDamien or JesterLady on the HetBang Discord server.