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Okay, this is all information that has been up in our FAQ since the very beginning of the challenge, but just once more with feeling.

Art and Fics Due - August 26th, 11:59 PM (Midnight) PST (here is a timezone converter.)

DON'T PANIC. YOU CAN DO THIS. REMEMBER TO BREATHE.

The Big Bang will go live on the Debut Date: August 31st, noon PST.

Why the delay between Arts/Fic submission and the Debut Date? Because, as last year can attest, we had a few delays with artwork, and some of the stories submitted were not properly formatted. Therefore, we need time to find back up artists and to properly code fics. Since authors are now in charge of coding/finalizing their own work, I suspect it won’t be a delaying issue, but it is very, very important that if you sign up as an artist and claim a story, you submit ON TIME because otherwise the entire big bang may be delayed.

On that note, we have still two fics not yet claimed by artists.

46. Story Name: Breaking Point (tentative title) 
Fandom/Pairing: Taggart, Jackie Reid/Robbie Ross
Summary to be provided to the Artist: Normally it's bad enough investigating a brutal attack, but when the victim is Matt Burke and his life is still hanging in the balance, it's even worse. With things already strained, the case pushes Jackie and Robbie, and their friendship, towards breaking point and beyond. (Some descriptions of violence.)
Current Word Count and Expected Final Word Count: current: 8 000 expected: 30 000

49. Story Name: Months Gone By
Fandom/Pairing: The Walking Dead, Daryl/Andrea (minors are Glenn and Maggie, true to canon; Michonne and T-Dog, AU/AR)
Summary to be provided to the Artist: Following the Governor's horrific attack on the prison, Daryl and Andrea become separated before Andrea has a chance to inform Daryl of their child-to-be. As they wander the Eastern Seaboard with their respective groups in their quest for safer shores, they never give up on finding each other.
Current Word Count and Expected Final Word Count: Current: 7,430 Expected 25,000 (dear God, help me!) :p
Author's Notes: Admins/mods, beta reviewer, and artist may contact me directly. Note that this fic does include AU/AR elements with some spoilers from the comics.

We are using AO3 collections for all authors and artists, with the reveal date of August 31st. You can post your fics/artwork anywhere else you like, just don’t post them up anywhere before the Debut Date. Again, there is plenty of time for those that do not have accounts on A03 to sign up. You can check out this post on the comm requesting invite codes, ask a friend for an invite code, or you can request from A03 here or at

ao3_invitecodes. If you are unfamiliar with it, here is the FAQ of AO3. Do not publish your fic/artwork for everyone to see at AO3. Instead, submit it for our 2012 collection. Only the author/artist of a work can add it to a collection, and then the mods approve it and we’ll reveal it on the Debut Date.

A03 will require you to format a header with all regular information on it. Remember to properly tag your works, including appropriate warnings.

Both HTML and Rich Text are supported on A03, and you can edit/delete, have multiple chapters, etc…

1. The Rich Text Editor lets you add formatting, links and pictures to text without using HTML tags. It also has an option for pasting from Word which will preserve some of your Word formatting, although please note that this is buggy. The Rich Text Editor is only available for your work text.

2. The HTML editor allows you to change the look of your text with HTML tags. It can be used in any place you can submit text, although some fields permit only a small subsection of allowed tags. You can see a full list of the allowed HTML on the Archive FAQ, but the standard HTML tags is as follows: b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, datetime, div, dl, dt, em, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, height, hr, href, i, img, ins, small, span, src, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, u, and more.

Also, last year,

anr was a saint and provided you with a post that explained "how to format a fic for posting in less than 30 seconds no matter the story length or amount of formatting" trick.

For Artists: AO3 video embeds are working from Youtube, Vimeo, blip.tv, Dailymotion, Viddler, Metacafe and 4shared. Images use the img HTML coding. You can upload your images at Tinypic or photobucket for images or .gif files. And if you have questions on how to format anything else, please see the AO3 FAQs, or ask one of your mods to help you out.

The mods won’t be overly picky about formatting. I'd prefer for all dividers and scene breaks to use <*hr> (remove the *) which creates a horizontal line that serves perfectly as a scene break. However, that’s optional. You choose your own way to format.

Other optional suggestions, just for uniformity sake's:
How do I do Chapter Titles: Bold 'em.
How do I timestamp and do locations: Italizice the dates and locations.
How do I do subtitle stuff: Italicize it.

There is only one major fail regarding format, and that has to do with paragraphs breaks. There must be a full line break between paragraphs.

Example of doing it wrong:

Chapter One: The Invasion
March 6, 2005 - The City of Atlantis
Elizabeth ducked quickly behind a console and attempted to catch her breath. A flush of pink colored her cheeks and a thin sheen of sweat had appeared on her brow. If the situation weren't so dire, John would have been turned on. As it was, however, he couldn't give it much thought as he had to focus on the batch of Ancient zombies that were slowly staggering in through the Stargate.
"At least they can't run," he offered lamely.
Elizabeth spared him a glare. "Why can't they run?"
"I don't know." John shrugged. "But they never seem to run. They always lurch. Maybe when they're brought back to life they don't get knees?"

Example of doing it right:

Chapter Two: Ancient Ex-Girlfriends
Yes, They're Zombies Too

Elizabeth peeked around the consol. "Oh, my god," she breathed. "Is that--"

"Chaya?!" John squeaked.

"Talk about creepy ex-girlfriends." Rodney scrunched his nose. "She doesn't look good in green."

John cringed and crouched down lower. "Do you think she's their leader?"

Elizabeth looked thoughtful. "Well, this may be better for us." She narrowed her eyes at John. "We can give them you in trade for a cease fire--" Something caught her attention behind John and she broke off. "No, wait. Look to the left! That's... oh, god, John. That's Teer!"

John and Rodney stared in disbelief. "Damn you, Kirk!" Rodney groused, and hit John upside the head. "We're going to be killed by a legion of your dead ex-girlfriends!"

"Okay, everybody calm down," John soothed. "Let's not overreact and go blaming--"

"Hey, look, your ex-wife!"

"What?!!"

Grammar and Spelling fail: If your fic doesn't look beta'ed, I will call you on it, which will create an AWKWARD situation for both of us. Having a beta is a REQUIREMENT. Grammar, spelling, proper paragraph structure, etc… these are all REQUIREMENTS. You need to give your beta ample opportunity to go over your fic for mistakes and edits, so remember to factor that into your deadline. Don't have a beta? Check out this post!

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Well if this isn't a nice, swift quick in the behind to let me know that I should have probably been finishing my little bang instead of writing a whole other one, I don't know what is.

And I mean that in a nice way! Thanks for the reminder.

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