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Professionals Big Bang WRITERS' Sign Up Post 2018


Challenge Rules for Writers

1. The central story element must focus on characters from The Professionals.
2. Stories must have a minimum length of 10,000 words. There is no maximum length.
3. Stories may be slash, gen, femslash, or het.
4. Any pairing is allowed, as is any rating.
5. AUs, Fusions and Crossovers are permitted but as it says in rule #1, the central story element must focus on characters from The Professionals.
6. You may write a story that is a prequel, sequel or companion story to a pre-existing story or stories you’ve written. However, the story/stories referred to must be available to read online and you will need to link to them when you post your story.
7. You are welcome to complete a WIP to meet the challenge as long as it has not been previously posted anywhere public.
8. Collaborations between writers are also allowed. Just let us know when you sign up if you are planning on writing with a partner.
9. Stories will be posted on an assigned date in October.
10. On your assigned date, you will make a master post for your story at this comm. The story itself may be posted to, and linked from, your personal LJ, Dreamwidth, AO3, The Automated Hatstand, etc.
11. We actively encourage adding stories to the Box of Tricks archive on AO3 to facilitate easy story downloads (we have membership codes available), but this is not required.
12. Please do not post your story anywhere prior to your assigned date and do not cross-post your story to any other community before the end of October.
13. We will create a master list of links and summaries at the community.
14. If you feel you have the energy and willpower to write a story and create artwork for someone else’s story, then please feel free to sign up as both an artist and as a writer.

Important Dates

Please sign-up to participate by March 1.

Your rough draft, full outline and story summary should be turned in by July 1. While we fully realize that a lot of us write right down to the wire and will continue to work on our stories until the September 23 deadline, Big Bangs are collaborative and our artists need this information to begin their work in turn.

On July 9, your summary will be posted anonymously for a participating artist to claim as a prompt. An artist will create, at the very least, one piece of art (title banner, illustration, manip, etc.) to accompany your story or a vidder may create a trailer for your story.

Your final draft should be completed by September 23.

Our posting schedule will begin in October.

To sign up

Please comment below with:
• Author name
• LJ username (if applicable)
• Email address

If you would prefer not to put your email address in the comment then please email us at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com.

All that remains for right now is: Thanks for participating… and GO PROS!

Date: 2018-02-02 12:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
I'm first! :D
And a glutton for punishment. :-/
  • Author name: Golden Bastet
  • LJ username (if applicable): [livejournal.com profile] golden_bastet
  • Email address: you guys have this...

Let me know if you need more.

YAAAAAAAAAAY!
Edited Date: 2018-02-02 12:35 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-02-04 01:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Nothing else needed now - but remember - we know how to find you! *g*

Sign up

Date: 2018-02-02 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackillya.livejournal.com
NAME: Jatona P Walker
LJ User name: blackillya
E-mail: illyank@yahoo.com

Re: Sign up

Date: 2018-02-04 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Welcome aboard!!

Re: Sign up

Date: 2018-02-04 06:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiorenza-a.livejournal.com

Hello, nice to see you here :0)

Date: 2018-02-04 01:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
You are on the list now!

Date: 2018-02-03 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Author name: merentha13
LJ user name : merentha13
e-mail - on file

now to figure out what to write!

Date: 2018-02-03 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ci5mates.livejournal.com

Author name: ci5mates

LJ user name: ci5mates

Email: ci5mates@gmail.com

I’m back for another crack!

Date: 2018-02-04 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
"back for another crack"

writing poetry this year, eh? *g*

Date: 2018-02-04 10:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ci5mates.livejournal.com

*g* looks like it!!

Date: 2018-02-03 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] agent-talis.livejournal.com
I'm in! (Why do I do this to myself...? :-) )
LJ Name: Agent_Talis
Writing Name: Agent_Talis
Email: Same as last year's, but I'll send it anyway.

Thank you!

Date: 2018-02-04 01:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
We all ask ourselves the same question - why, why, why. The answer, of course, is:

Image (https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/merentha13/21454005/180177/180177_original.jpg)

The Lads!

Date: 2018-02-04 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiorenza-a.livejournal.com

Author name: Fiorenza_a
LJ username: [livejournal.com profile] fiorenza_a
Email address: Same as last year - should I send it again ?

I already have a full story outline and most of a first chapter. I'm quite hopeful of finishing, given that I made it despite all the hurdles I had to overcome last year.

Hope things are less fraught this year.

(Also, it's brill to be able to post to AO3 - Lj really doesn't like my browser - it can take me literally days to get a story post up on an Lj comm - especially a long one - although, for anyone with the same difficulties, I find swapping to Chrome makes life easier.)

Date: 2018-02-04 07:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Welcome to another round! I'm jealous that you have a full outline and a started chapter. I'm still in the "sticky" note stage without a real clue of where I'm going.

Yes - we have your e-mail.

Interesting on the Browser issue. I find it easier to get stories formatted on lj and then copy to AO3. If I may ask - what browser do you use?

And yes - I definitely vote for a less fraught year - all around!

Date: 2018-02-04 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fiorenza-a.livejournal.com

I prefer internet explorer, but Lj doesn't seem to like it. (I admit it's elderly, but I'm the Queen of pinning things - and prefer the way IE does that.)

It gets really grumpy about long posts. But if I use Chrome and cut and paste from a word doc (and I tend to have a copy on one of those anyway) it seems to play up less.

I don't have any problems with AO3 (or FF.net, come to that). Although, I'd never posted to a challenge before last year, so I'm not sure I went about that in the most efficient manner.

Bizarrely, though, I haven't had any of the access probs some other people have been reporting about Lj recently.

Date: 2018-02-08 05:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dawnebeth.livejournal.com
I keep meaning to actually sign up and forgetting! Ack.

Author name: Dawnwind
• LJ username Dawnebeth
• Email address dawnebeth@comcast.net

Date: 2018-02-08 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
It's good to have you back this year!

Date: 2018-02-09 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klara3745.livejournal.com
Author name - Klara3745
LJ user name - Klara3745
Email - I’ve emailed you with this

Now all I’ve got to do is finish those last pasty chapters lol

Klara

Date: 2018-02-09 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Welcome here!

I would like to join Box of Tricks

Date: 2018-02-20 07:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] longstrt.livejournal.com
lbc
longstrt
longstrt@comcast.net

Re: I would like to join Box of Tricks

Date: 2018-02-20 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Yay!! Glad to see you back again! You are officially signed up :-)
Edited Date: 2018-02-20 09:30 pm (UTC)

Date: 2018-02-21 05:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loyseofverlaine.livejournal.com
I'm in.

Verlaine

[personal profile] loyseofverlaine

Loyse_of_verlaine@yahoo.ca

Date: 2018-02-21 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Yay! Good to have you with us for another round!

Date: 2018-03-03 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] loxleyprince.livejournal.com
YAYYYYYYYY!!!! :-)

Date: 2018-02-25 06:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
Author: LilyK
LJ user: sc_fossil
email: chakbalam at gmail dot com

Cheers!

Date: 2018-02-25 02:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
And 'Cheers!' right back at you! Good to see you here. :-)

Date: 2018-02-28 04:47 pm (UTC)
murphybabe: (Default)
From: [personal profile] murphybabe
Author Name: Murphybabe
Email addy: allstonelee at yahoo dot com

Date: 2018-02-28 10:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
YaY!! Glad to see you back!

Date: 2018-02-28 10:40 pm (UTC)
murphybabe: (Default)
From: [personal profile] murphybabe
Thank you!

I'm in!

Date: 2018-03-01 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bodie24.livejournal.com
Author name: Tig
LJ Name: Bodie24
Email: I've sent you a mail

Looking forward to this :-)

Re: I'm in!

Date: 2018-03-01 10:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
You're all signed up! Welcome to Big Bang madness :-)

RE: Re: I'm in!

Date: 2018-03-01 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bodie24.livejournal.com
Thanks:-)
Am all excited!

Re: Re: I'm in!

Date: 2018-03-02 01:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Me too! Now I just need to come up with a story *g*

Date: 2018-03-01 09:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] banbury.livejournal.com
Oh, nearly missed :(
One more try and I even have sort of a plot this time :) Hope it'll go further than last year :))

• Author name - Banbury
• LJ username (if applicable) - banbury
• Email address - mcburg at gmail dot com

Date: 2018-03-01 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Welcome back! Fingers crossed for you this year - You can do it :-)

Date: 2018-03-02 12:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] franciskerst.livejournal.com
Saw it too late maybe but I'd like to have a try, though I must finish the last chapter of my current story first. Well, the challenge is tempting. Tell me if I am accepted.

Francis Kerst

kersty@wanadoo.fr

Impossible to make the screen name appear right though I did as usual: sorry. Its always the same one anyway.
Edited Date: 2018-03-02 12:50 am (UTC)

Date: 2018-03-02 01:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] merentha13.livejournal.com
Of course you're accepted! It's still 3/1/18 where I am :-)

Welcome!
Edited Date: 2018-03-02 01:14 am (UTC)

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2022 schedule

February 1: Writer sign ups begin
March 1: Writer sign ups close
May 1: Artist sign ups begin
May 31: Artist sign ups close
July 1: Writers’ rough drafts (6,600 words minimum)/full outlines due. Story summaries also due
July 9: Artist Claims Day. Artists will claim stories based on anonymous story summaries, first come, first served
September 23: Final stories (10,000 words minimum) and artwork/vids due
October: Posting begins

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