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Well, Folks - The 8th annual Professionals Big Bang is sadly over, and we'd like to thank you all for making it such a success! Whether you wrote a story, made artwork, served as a beta or cheerleader, or just read and enjoyed, thank you so much for participating. Such a wealth of exciting new fiction and art to read and enjoy!

Here’s to next year and thanks each and every one of you for making this challenge so enjoyable.

With best wishes, your mod team.
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Title: The Blue Box Affair
Author: [livejournal.com profile] sc_fossil LilyK
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] sc_fossil kat-byrd
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Word count: 18,000
Warnings: None, except for being plain daft.

Summary: Things have gone to the dogs in London! Bodie and Doyle must save the world from...*spoilers*! And a stranger from afar has cocked up in a grand way which puts all of mankind in jeopardy! Will our lads save the day or will this be the end to everything they know?

Notes: I would like to thank my editors and Brit pickers, Ankaree, Dawnwind, Jojo and Sally Fell. Trust me when I say the craziness and silliness is all my fault! They could only shake their heads and do their best. I did the "art" so as not to inflict the tale on anybody else. *bg*

CI5_Box of Tricks Mods rule!!!

Link to Fic: Fic Master Post
[identity profile] sc-fossil.livejournal.com
Title: The Blue Box Affair
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] sc_fossil kat-byrd
Author: [livejournal.com profile] sc_fossil LilyK
Archive to Pros Lib: Yes
Genre: Slash
Characters/Pairing: Bodie/Doyle
Warnings: SFW (safe for work)

Notes: Art, such as it is, is embedded in the fic since I did both ends of the project this go-round to protect the innocent. *bg*

Link to Story and Art: Art Embedded In Fic
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What with posting beginning in under a week, it's time to say a few words about the collection at AO3. These will be much the same words that we have said in previous years.

You are not required to post your story/art to AO3, but we encourage you to do so. It lets us have a central location for all of the Big Bang fanworks, and also, as you probably know, all stories are easily downloadable in e-reader friendly formats; this is particularly nice for your fellow fen with health issues or those who just plain love their e-readers.

The collection for the current year is Pros Big Bang 2017. (Previous years' collections are accessible here.)

[livejournal.com profile] sineala wrote up a little guide for how to post to AO3 for the Big Bang; the same directions apply, except that you'll want to make sure you're in the 2017 collection this year.

A couple of reminders:

1. In case anyone still doesn't have an AO3 account who wants one, let us know; we still have invite codes. Alternatively, the wait time for invites is currently under 24 hours.

2. If you have stories/art from previous years that you have not yet posted to the AO3, we have left the previous collections open for exactly this reason. Feel free to add your Big Bang story or art to the appropriate year's collection.

3. If you are planning to post in HTML rather than Rich Text, and (a) you are reasonably conversant with the features of your word processor and (b) that word processor is OpenOffice (it's free!), it may interest you to know that Astolat has a set of OpenOffice macros for formatting italics/bold/etc and turning your story into HTML suitable for copying into a LJ or AO3 post.

Happy posting! Let us know if you have any questions and we will attempt to confuse you further, ah, I mean help, of course! =0
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The Professionals Big Bang mods are pleased to announce the final posting schedule.

It all begins on Sunday!!!!!!!!!

Date------------------Author-----------------Artists

Sunday.....1 Oct........Merentha 13...........Mella, Loxleyprince


Wednesday..4 Oct........Fictionwriter & Moth2fic...Loxleyprince


Saturday...7 Oct........Agent Talis...........Brune_arci


Monday.....9 Oct..........Airelle 1.............krisser


Wednesday.11 Oct........Spaceknight...........Firlefanzine


Friday....13 Oct..........Krisser...............Agent Talis


Sunday....15 Oct..........lbc...................krisser


Wednesday.16 Oct........Lily K................SCFossil


Friday....20 Oct........Snow White............krisser


Sunday....22 Oct........Snailbones............Macklingirl


Tuesday...24 Oct........Murphybabe............Merentha13


Friday....27 Oct........Jojo..................Allegra


Sunday....29 Oct........Fiorenza_A............Gevanne


Tuesday...31 Oct........Golden_bastet.........krisser
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Today is September 23rd, the deadline for final drafts from writers and rough drafts from artists. Remember writers, you still have tweaking time, but we do need to see that the story is pretty much complete. Artists, you have a little more time but you should have your rough drafts well under way and sent in.

If you haven't yet sent us your files and can't quite remember how to do that, just go here.

If we haven't heard from you by the end of the day, expect an email asking for an update. If anybody is having problems, drop us a line at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com. We're here to help :)

Thanks for being part of this year's Big Bang, everyone. We're looking forward to so much new reading material and artwork!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Just a reminder ...

...the deadline for writers' final drafts and artists' rough drafts is the 23rd of September. That's next Saturday - less than a week from today. O:



As always: if you have any questions, email us at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com.
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Hi all.. . the time grows near . . .to begin thinking about . . .yes, you must think about . . Submitting Your Drafts!


As we are now getting ever closer to our deadline of 23rd September we thought we'd put up the details of what you need to do to submit your stories and art.

Writers

Send your completed story to the following email address:


prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com





Please use the following naming convention for the file:


prosbigbang_yourname_storytitle.doc






We're expecting that your draft is complete at this point, though you can definitely tweak before your posting date.

Artists

Please send the rough draft of your art to the same addresses above. It's not necessary to have completed art by this point (though that would be lovely) but we would like to know that you're on the way to finishing.

Writers and Artists

Since our next step is to create the posting schedule, please let us know if there are any dates that we should absolutely avoid giving you.

We want to make sure everyone has a date they're comfortable with, and one on which they can easily get their story or art up.

We’ll do our best to accommodate any requests, but we’d like everyone to appreciate that we're aiming to spread the stories out as evenly as possible throughout the month.

Next steps

Once we have everyone's stories and art, we will be putting together the posting schedule. And when that's done, we'll be emailing everyone their posting date, along with details of how to create a post at ci5_boxoftricks with links to whichever location you’ve chosen to post your story and art to (LJ, Dreamwidth, The Automated Hatstand, AO3, etc).

Drop us a line at the address above if you have any questions or issues.

Thanks once again to everyone for participating. We can't wait to see everyone's contributions to the challenge.
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Well, folks, that dreaded moment is quickly approaching -- we're a little over a month out, omigodI'mnowhereneardone and it's time to go over what happens in that month. This is not under a cut because it's all important.

So here we go:

I. 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 only need 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.

Artists and writers should all send their drafts to the friendly mods. [who really haven't pulled all their hair out yet] 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. Woot Woot Woot *\\\\o////*

II. What You Will Be Posting

Writers

In a publicly accessible location of your choosing: your story.
You may post in your own LJ, in an LJ you create specifically for this purpose, in an archive, like 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 a link to your story.
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.
You may post in your own LJ, in an LJ you create specifically for this purpose, in an archive, like AO3, or on a website.

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

In the ci5_boxoftricks LJ: a post with a link to your artist's post.
We'll be supplying templates for what your posts should look like nearer to the posting dates.

Writers and artists

Just a quick reminder that like last year both writers and artists will be making their own master posts to ci5_boxoftricks. But of course, as in previous years, writers and artists who would like the art included within the story should feel free to arrange to do so.

III. 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.

A new 2017 Pros Big Bang Collection has been made available here (yeah, there). To find out more about AO3 take a look here and here. To be clear you are not required to post your story / art at AO3 but 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 we ask that both artists and writers do not cross-post their stories and art to any other community before the end of October.

IV. And finally

As always if you have any questions, drop us a comment or an email (the address is prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com) and watch out at the comm for future posts.
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The sign up post is now closed, which means we can have the pleasure of confirming all the fabulous artists and vidders taking part in the 2017 Pros Big Bang (listed alphabetically):


The artists who've signed up are:-

    Anima Allegra
    banbury
    darici
    Dee
    Fairy Fox
    firlefanzine
    gvenanne
    kat-byrd
    krisserci5
    Lorraine
    loxleyprince
    macklingirl
    mella68
    merentha13



Huge thanks to everyone who has signed up - we are all looking forward to what you'll be coming up with ♥. \~~~/ I be dancing here!!

The next big step for our artists and vidders will be for you to claim your story/stories.

We'll be posting the story summaries from our writers anonymously on July 9, and then the final work will be due on the 23rd September.

Watch out for more information about the claiming process here on the comm as we head towards the end of June.
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
It's that time! The writers sign-up post has been up for a while, and now it's the turn of all our fabulous artists and vidders.

Please give the rules a read before you sign up so you understand what is expected of you. The mods are excited to see who's joining us for the 2017 Big Bang.

Rules For Artists:

1. You agree to create at least one piece of art or one vid for a Pros Big Bang story.
2. Collaborations between artists are also allowed. Just let us know when you sign up if you are planning on working with a partner.
3. The art may be an original illustration, title banner, photo manip., or whatever else strikes your fancy. The vid may be a reflection of the story or a teaser to entice people to read. Have fun with your project!
4. You’re free to create what you will for the art or vid, but we suggest that you consult with your writer before doing anything too explicit.
5. On your assigned date, you will make a master post for your art at this comm (the mods will provide a template for this post closer to the time). The art itself may be posted to, and linked from, your personal LJ, Dreamwidth, AO3, The Automated Hatstand, etc. Please do not post your artwork anywhere prior to your assigned posting date and please do not cross-post it to any other community before the end of October.
6. If you feel you have the energy and willpower to create artwork for someone else's story, as well as writing your own, then please feel free to sign up as both an artist and as a writer.

Sign ups open on 1st May and close on 31st May.

On 9th July, a list of story summaries will be posted anonymously. You will claim the story that interests you on a first come, first served basis. Once you have successfully claimed a story, we’ll give you the author’s contact information and the rough draft/outline of their story from which to work.

The due date for your artwork/vid is 23rd September. Your work should not be posted on a public forum at this time, but you must provide us with either a working link to the art or vid, or the art or vid file itself.

An assigned, staggered posting schedule will happen in October.

To sign up, please comment below with:

● Artist/Vidder name:
● LJ username (if applicable):
● Email address:
● Art or Vid, or both (if you know):
● Would you prefer to work on slash, gen or het/have no preference?:
● If necessary, would you be willing to pinch hit?

If you would prefer not to put your email address in the comment then please send the mods an email at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com. Questions happily answered by email or by comments here.

We'd love to have you on board, whether you've done this before or you're brand new to Pros or to a big bang challenge. Come on, you want to do this! It's a blast.

Thank you!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Well it is the 3rd of March here at ci5_boxoftricks
and that means that the sign ups for writers have now closed!

Which in turn means we are now able to introduce you all to the 21 fabulous writers who have signed up for the 2017 Pros Big Bang!. So here we go, in alphabetical order:



  • Agent_Talis

  • Airelle1

  • banbury

  • ci5mates

  • Dawnwind

  • Fiorenza_a

  • golden bastet

  • jojo

  • krisser

  • lbc

  • LilyK

  • mab

  • margaret_r/moth2fic

  • merentha13

  • murphybabe

  • PFL

  • P.R. Zed

  • snailbones

  • Snow White

  • spaceknight

  • unbelievable2




Massive thanks to all the writers who have signed up, we know this is going to be another really fantastic year.

The next big deadline for writers will be July 1st, when the rough draft (5,000 words minimum) and outline will be due, and more information about this will follow as we get closer to the date.

In the meantime, stay tuned for weekly check in posts for the chance to chat, see how things are going and plan that escape to an exotic island when the muses are refusing to co-operate :D.
[identity profile] mab-browne.livejournal.com
Hi, Pros-y people. If you're thinking about signing up for this year's Box of Tricks you need to make a decision. Sign-ups close on 1 March 2017. If you want to sign up please rev up your Capri, or browser, and head to this post here:

http://ci5-boxoftricks.livejournal.com/163921.html

If you'd like to be a beta or cheerleader, those options will still remain open. :-)
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Professionals Big Bang WRITERS' Sign Up Post 2017


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!
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Pros Big Bang signups opening soon! Yeah!!!

This is your reminder that author signups for the Eight annual Professionals Big Bang opens on Wednesday, February 1! Just about a week away! Are you ready?

While you wait for the signup post, you can read (or reread)
Last year, participants produced 11 stories, for a total of 342,081 words of fiction, with accompanying art! Link to Fic: 2016 Big Bang entries.

You can also check out the prior years:

Link to Fic: 2015 Big Bang entries
(18 stories, for a total of 536,800)

Link to Fic: 2014 Big Bang entries.
(16 stories, for a total of 492,416 words)

Link to Fic: 2013 Big Bang entries
(11 stories, 435,414 words),

Link to Fic: 2012 stories
(19 stories, 678,220 words),

Link to Fic: the 2011 stories
(16 stories, 585,646 words),

Link to Fic: and the 2010 stories
(23 stories, 695,123 words)!




That means that in the past seven years the participants in the Big Bang (that's you!) have written (and illustrated) 114 stories with a total word count of 3,765,700 words! Will we make it to 150 stories? Will we make it to four million words? If you sign up, you can make this happen!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
We're Back!!!!! And just in time for . . .

The Eighth Annual Pros Big Bang Challenge

For those of you who haven’t seen a Big Bang Challenge before, it’s a collaborative effort between writers and artists. Writers sign up to write a story with a minimum word count. Later in the process, artists claim a story based on an anonymous story summary and produce at least one piece of art to go with it. The art can be an illustration, a manip, or even a vid.

Over the last five years we had set the minimum word count at 15,000, but this year we have decided to lower the word count to 10,000 in hope that will encourage more writers to dip their toes into the welcoming water. But please remember 10,000 is the minimum word count and if you would like to write 30,000, 50,000 or even 100,000 we will cheer you on all the way.

This is the time to think about that fic you started but RL got in the way, or the fic that just needs to be polished . . . or you just found languishing on a floppy disk. Hear the rally cry to join us!!!

And now for the schedule.............

Writer sign ups will start on the 1st February and run until the 1st March.
Artist sign ups will start on the 1st May and run until the 31st May.
Rough drafts are due at the start of July and the artists claims day will happen just after that.
Final stories and art are due in late September and posting begins in October.

And you can find the more detailed schedule on the ci5_boxoftricks profile page and on the left hand side of the main comm page.

Of course even if you don't plan on signing up, please do feel free to join the community. You can help by cheerleading, volunteering to beta, providing prompts, and generally joining in the festivities.

So fire up your word processor, sharpen your pencils, fine tune your Photoshop skills, gear up your vidding software and get ready for the 2017 Box of Tricks!

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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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