WRITERS' MANDATORY CHECK-IN

[peanutbutterer.livejournal.com]

****EDIT: The minimum word count for Big Bang is 20k, not 25k, so, you know, change it in your heads because changing polls no worky, turkeys.*****


All writers must participate in this check-in, or they will be assumed to have dropped out of the challenge. This poll will remain open until July 18th. There are two mandatory parts for a Big Bang Participant (poll and email), and only one mandatory part for a Little Bang Participant (poll).

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There is no minimum word count that you need at this point, for either the Big Bang or the Little Bang. After today, you cannot change: your selection of participating in the Big Bang or Little Bang (or both, if you're writing two stories), the fandom, or the pairing. That's locked in!

Part two: an email for Big Bang Writers. If you are attempting a fic greater than 20k, you can choose the Big Bang option and receive an artist who will create artwork for your story. You will therefore need to email the mods at bigbang.het@gmail.com with THREE different snippets of your work, 500-1000 words each, so that your artist may have something to work off of and inspire. Send a separate email for each big bang that you want to submit.

The email format will be:

SUBJECT LINE: [Your LJ Name: Big Bang Check In.]

Author Name: LJ name and AO3 Name
Story Name: if undecided or only tentative, please state that.
Fandom/Pairing: list the main one, and any minor pairings if you so please
Summary to be provided to the Artist: yes, this bit is mandatory. It's fine if it's rough, but please give your artists an idea of what the story is about because claims will be done off this. Maximum 50 words.
Current Word Count and Expected Final Word Count:

Then supply your three snippets. 500-1000 words each, in the body of your email and NOT as a separate word document. You may leave any author's notes or any explanations you want, and you may also leave an email address or a way for your artist to contact you directly. Artist are not obliged to work directly with the author on their artwork, but most usually like author input or feedback of some kind. This entire email that you send to the mods will be directly forwarded to your artist.

To Big Bang or Little Bang: Big Bang stories are under some form of obligation to finish because a artist has signed up to do work for it; so try to complete? Pretty, pretty please? If you don't, we understand, but keep in mind that your artist did all that work. If you decide to drop out at any point, contact BOTH a Mod and your artist immediately and tell them so. But try to complete! WE BELIEVE IN YOU!

If you're intimidated by the idea of having an artist or anyone else rely on you completing this venture, there is always the less demanding option: the little big bang. It only has a minimum word count of 10k. No maximum word count. And there is no artists for it, unless you get someone on your own or you create your own artwork for it (either is totally fine). I basically put in this little bang option for those that want to participate, but don't want to be obliged to anyone else to finish. It's completely low-key and non-intimidating! (I hope.)

Artists: will claim stories on July 20th on a post that goes up on this comm. Artist will claim stories on a first come, first serve basis. They are required to make one piece of artwork for each big bang story they claim. The claims posts will display the story title, the fandom/pairings, and summary. We will provide artists with the author name only after they have claimed the story, and we will email the artist the snippets/relevant information as soon as we can. From there, artist can contact authors to find out more about their interests. We would like to encourage artists to be in contact with authors and to share and collaborate, but ONLY in fun. Artists are under no obligation to work directly with the author. Ultimately, what artists create for their artwork is their creation, just like how artists cannot dictate what the author writes for their fanfiction. But we all want everyone to be happy with what they get and what they create, so I hope this remains a happy, fun, friendly experience.

Also, if a writer eventually does not complete his/her Big Bang story by the due date, but the artists has completed their artwork, go ahead and submit it and I'll showcase the artwork on AO3 anyway. Artist deserve recognition for their hard work!

Comments

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

Psst. The minimum word count this year for big bang is 20k, not 25k.

(P.S. I love you for handling this.)

[vickysg1.livejournal.com]

Damn, how did I miss this? But yeah! Less pressure!

[roeskva]

I will send an email with snippets etc. when I come home from work.

[alyse]

My fandom name already includes a colon so I hope that doesn't mess anything up for you!

E-mail will come when I'm at home (on my phone :D)

[little-firestar.livejournal.com]

Sent an email as soon as I got home back from the job (let's be honest. Writing on the tablet is extremely annoying). And extremely grateful happy, cheerfull, and etc, and etc, and etc, all good feelings (with the exception of "in love" and despite that here in Italy the government is that close to fall yet again after just a matter of months) because, with the word count lowered, my story isn't little bang any longer but a big bang :p

[lothiriel84.livejournal.com]

I've filled in the poll even though I had previously sent the early check-in email...

[vickysg1.livejournal.com]

Poll filled, and I'll send the e-mail either later today or tomorrow. As soon as this last snippet allows me to write it.

[deathmallow.livejournal.com]

Poll filled out, e-mail sent. Excited to see this coming together! :D

[semisweetsoul.livejournal.com]

Looks like I filled the poll just before I leave. *Breathe sigh of relief!*

[ladyseraph-756.livejournal.com]

Have emailed with snippets. admittedly they're probably not great snippets but I tried my best. I'm having real problems with internet access at the moment.

[enochiansigils]

I'm confused. Is the minimum word count for the bigbang 20k or 25k? Because the post now says 20k but everywhere else I've looked says 25k. Or did I miss you guys changing that?

[peanutbutterer.livejournal.com]

I only see 25k everywhere, too, but I have been known to miss things in the past. I would say that if IR says it's 20k (as she does in the first comment of this post) then it is 20k. Sorry I can't cite a source on the change, but we'll just have it as 20k going forward.

[enochiansigils]

Works for me! I just wanted to be absolutely certain!

And my email of snippets is going to be coming sometime tomorrow, woo. It's a matter of writing a couple things out of order in order to have the snippets I actually want since I haven't actually written far enough to GET to those scenes.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

do i need to comment, too? I sent you early check in.

[peanutbutterer.livejournal.com]

No, but yes, because of your icon. This post definitely needed it.

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

I only wish I had a Nell/Deeks to really make your day.

[juliet-demarcus.livejournal.com]

Filled out the poll, though I couldn't include the first and last names of my characters because there wasn't enough space.

I seriously considered dropping, even though I'm almost at 13,000 words, because I don't know how much of it I will be able to stand to keep, and secondly I'm not sure if I can get to a decent stopping point in time for the end of the challenge. So even though I don't think word count would be a problem for the Big Bang, I've switched to Little Bang so there will be less pressure to finish even at the cost of making it end at some weird point. Hope I understood correctly that the Little Bang was a good option for my situation... I will do my best to complete this, finding a good ending point for the story, but I can't say I'm confident enough to go the Big Bang route.

[kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com]

Just wanted to confirm that if we're doing the Little Bang we don't need to send an email or snippets, right?

[peanutbutterer.livejournal.com]

Correct.

[lothiriel84.livejournal.com]

I know this isn't the right place to ask, but I'd still need to know whether the posting starts on August 26th or we'll have some days before that date to submit the story to a screened community on AO3...

[irony-rocks.livejournal.com]

You can submit it anytime you want to our A03 community. All stories will be screened and only revealed on our DD date. You can find out more about submission in our Big FAQ 2013 post.