A month to go! What is happening next in the Pros Big Bang.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

There is now about a month to go until the final deadline so we thought it was about time to let you all know what to expect over the next few weeks. Apologies for this long post, we didn't want any of it hidden under a cut.

The Deadlines

Friday 23rd September

Writer's final draft is due

• While you'll still have a few days to tweak and polish, we'd like the writers to have complete, finished stories by this point.

Artist's rough draft is due

• As the artists have less time to work on this than the writers, we'd only like to see a rough draft of their art at this point. What we're looking for is an indication that the artist is on track to finish in time for their posting date.

Both the artists and writers drafts will be sent to your friendly mods. Further information about sending us these drafts will be posted closer to the deadline.

Tuesday 27th September

The posting schedule is sent out to artists and writers.

Saturday 1st October

Posting begins. *dances*

What You Will Be Posting

Writers

In a publicly accessible location of your choosing: your story, including, if appropriate and possible, links to the art created by your artist.

• You may post in your own LJ, in an LJ you create specifically for this purpose, in an archive, like The Automated Hatstand or AO3, or on a website.


• We only require that the story is publicly accessible, and that you do not post your story before your assigned posting date.

In the ci5_boxoftricks LJ: a post with links both to your story and to your artist's post.

• We'll be supplying templates for what your posts should look like nearer to the posting dates.

Artists

In a publicly accessible location of your choosing: the art for your claimed story, with any commentary you'd like.

• As with the writers above you may post anywhere (LJ, archive, website etc) as long as it is publicly accessible.


• Your writer will be linking to where you posted, so you will need to supply her or him with this link before they post at ci5_boxoftricks.


• In addition to facilitate your writer including your art within their story, you may either supply them with files for the art, or with links to whatever site you have uploaded the art to. Vidders, you can supply the embed links, if you're posting the vid on YouTube or a similar site, or you can supply a link to the file on a site or an upload/download service.

Some extra reminders / notes

We'll be supplying templates for what your posts should look like nearer to the posting dates.

We will also be asking you about any dates in October when you would not be able to post so put your thinking caps on.

If posting in LJ, there is a limit of 65,000 characters per post. This generally works out to an average of 8,000 to 10,000 words.

If you are interested in posting at AO3 we still have some invite codes left so drop us a line if you would like one. And there is more about AO3 here and here .

If you do not wish to post to AO3 but would still like to make a downloadable version of your story available to your readers, we would ask that you be ready to submit a Rich Text Format file of your story. Again more to follow about this closer to the time.

And finally

As always if you have any questions, drop us a comment or an email and watch out at the comm for future posts.

Comments

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Oh my, doesn't that look pretty!!! Wonderful!!!

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

*g* And we are getting closer and closer to being able to read the stories, see the art and watch the vids. *bounces in excited fashion*

[bodiecuddle.livejournal.com]

great. I stored my vid at a private 4shared... but after all I will upload it on YT. My writer already saw the vid, so I have to wait untill my writer tells me were to link..or what ever... Ohh sorry a newbee is asking.. I`m puzzled LOL.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hey. When is gets to your posting date (which will be assigned at the end of September) you would need to make your finished video available where everyone can see it. This can be simply be youtube or you could could embed it in a post in your own LJ or anywhere else as long as people can access it.

You would then share that link (to youtube or your LJ) with your writer so they can include it in their masterpost at this community.

This is am exampe of a post from last year where the writer worked with a vidder: http://ci5-boxoftricks.livejournal.com/16041.html and if you follow the link you can see how this vidder decided to post.

I hope that helps a little but please ask if you have any questions and we will try and answer them.

For now you don't need to do anything but wait until the deadline passes and the posting schedule is put up. And we will go into more details closer to the time.

[bodiecuddle.livejournal.com]

ok thanks... then I`m waiting ;)

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Funny how a tremor of excitement and nerves ran through me when I read those words! And I was the first to post my story last year, that was nervewracking, I'll tell you!

I wrote well this morning, Doyle is all banged up but soon to be rescued and I can see the end of the story as an attainable goal. Yippee

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Well I know I am excited but then I suppose I am just sitting back waiting for all the goodies. I can guarantee though you have no need to be nervous.

Doyle is all banged up but soon to be rescued
I am happy to lend a hand with the rescuing if he needs it :D.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

Never fear, Bodie's arrived. :-D

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Now that is what the fangirls Doyle has been waiting for.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited! New fic, new art, new vids. What more could a gal ask for! Woohoo! Thanks, V.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

It is brilliant isn't it, I just can't wait.

Deadline

[judesmk.livejournal.com]

When I saw the date, I had a panic moment. How would I ever finish on time? But during the course of the day, I have realised that the deadline is a GOOD thing. I will finish my piece. I will revise my piece. And then it will be ready. Of course I will then be able to panic about posting it though I've tried out AO3 and it worked fine.

So only two more chapters to go. Woohoo!!!

Judes

Re: Deadline

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Nope no panicking allowed *g*. Seriously though there is still a month and I just know you will make it with tons of time to spare.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Hey, one question: do you know the post character / word limit on AO3? I was considering resurrecting that account / posting over there.

I never thought figuring out natural breaking points would be an issue, but it's come up in the past few days.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hey I don't actually know if there is one. I took a look at their FAQs about works here: http://archiveofourown.org/archive_faqs/8. But couldn't track anything down.

From my own personal reading experience there I know you can break a story into chapters on AO3 and it can be as many chapters as you like. But you can also do stories in one go as well.

I have seen stories posted in one go that were very long. For example this fic http://archiveofourown.org/works/131605 is in one post and is about 75000 words.

Hope that helps a bit.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This should work, though I can play around with it if need be.

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Hi {{waving madly}}

Any hint of the earliest turn in date? I will be traveling to London - spending madcap time there and sadly returning home during Sept and I want to turn in my story.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hello

I don't see any problem with an early hand in date but I'll check with the other mods about exactly what we need from you and send you a PM with more information.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hey again. Just to let you know I've just sent you a PM but have been having problems with LJ so I'll send you a quick email from the prosbigbang email address just to make sure you get this.

[gvenanne.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't quite understand this bit about artsts' rough draft. For example, if i'm making a photomanip, what should i post? The pic, that is not finished? I don't like the idea of posting the not finished picture, in case with manips it will look just awful. May it be a small piece of a picture? Or one picture from a range?
Thank you

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

Hello, essentially the rough draft for art only comes to the mods and it will only be seen by us. So you don't have to worry about it being unfinished or finished.

And you can send us anything that you would like. It is just so we get the reassurance that it will be ready for the posting date that you, and your writer, are assigned.

I hope that helps. If not please let me know and I will try and answer any other questions you have.

[gvenanne.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Thank you)