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norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com

It's the 23rd September, and it's Deadline Day for submission of writers' final drafts and artists' rough drafts!

The full details of what you need to send us (drafts and dates you can/cannot post), where to send it to, what will be happening next, and other information can be found at this post.

If you're still working on things, don't panic. Just get in touch with us by email at prosbigbang@gmail.com to let us know how things are going.

We will be sending out the posting schedule as soon as possible so please all writers and artists keep an eye out for an email about that, and then posting templates and other information will follow after that.

BIG BANGERS - ASSEMBLE!!! (oops, sorry...wrong fandom... *slinks off*)

draycevixen.livejournal.com

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:

prosbigbang@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).

And Bob’s your uncle

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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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

Sunday 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.

Artists and writers should all send their drafts to the friendly mods. Further information about sending us these drafts will be posted closer to the deadline.

Thursday 27th September

The posting schedule is sent out to artists and writers.

Monday 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.

A new 2012 Pros Big Bang Collection will be made available at AO3 near the posting dates, 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 finally

As always if you have any questions, drop us a comment or an email (the address is prosbigbang@gmail.com) and watch out at the comm for future posts.

przed.livejournal.com

To give our artists a heads up on the way they'll be claiming their stories, here's an outline of the way we'll be proceeding with the art claims.

The artist claiming post will go up on Monday, July 9th at 5:30 p.m. BST. (That's British Summer Time. You can use the World Clock Time Zone Converter to determine the time in your location.)

The claiming post will contain all the story summaries, under a cut, and without the writers' names. The post will be screened, so your friendly mods will be the only ones to see all comments.

Artists should comment to the post, and include their first, second, third, and fourth choices for story claims.

Artists should also let us know whether they are willing to provide art for a second story. (We have three more stories than we do artists.)

The mods will do a first pass through the list, starting with the first comment, and assign each artist their first story. If your first choice has already been chosen, you will be assigned your second pick.

We chose this method to ensure:

that every artists gets a reasonable shot of getting a first or second choice, and…

that artists who claim early will get their story assigned early, so they can get to work on art as quickly as possible

Once everyone has been assigned a first story, the first three artists who agreed to do a second story will be assigned that.

Please note that once you have claimed a story, you'll be getting the rough draft of that story, so you don't have to work just from the summary.

Let us know if you have any questions. And thanks once again to our artists for volunteering their time and talent.

saintvic.livejournal.com

Right then, as promised here is the information about how to send us your Pros Big Bang Rough Draft and Summary.

First, you need to create two separate files, one for the rough draft, and one for the summary. You should use the following naming convention for the files:

prosbigbang_roughdraft_yourname.doc

prosbigbang_summary_yourname.doc

So my two files would be called prosbigbang_roughdraft_saintvic.doc and prosbigbang_summary_saintvic.doc.

A note on file format. We'd prefer to get the files in Word's .doc format, though we will take .rtf or .txt files. If you have one of the latest versions of Word, please make sure you're saving to .doc, NOT .docx.

Next, you send the two files to the following email address:

prosbigbang@gmail.com (prosbigbang at gmail dot com)

The files are due by midnight, July 1st, PST.

And that's pretty much it.

A reminder of the minimum requirements for the rough draft and summary can be found by following this link.

And if you have any questions, we can be reached at the above email address or your can PM any of the Mods.

Once we have everyone's entries, we'll be stripping out the identifying information and posting the summaries for the artists to claim from on July 9th.

Good luck, everyone. We're very much looking forward to seeing your stories.

Current Mood: excited

saintvic.livejournal.com

As we are now getting ever closer to the rough draft deadline on the 1st July we thought this was a good time to post a reminder of the rough draft requirements.

A minimum word count of 10,000 words.
We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 8,000 words, but it's clear you're well on the way to finishing, that works for us. But if you're only at 1,000 words, we have a problem. Talk to us and let us know how you are getting on. We don’t bite..........hard.

A reasonably complete outline of any unfinished scenes.
The outline can be as complete (massively detailed descriptions of every remaining incident in the story) or as brief ("insert sex scene here") as you like.

A reasonable confidence that you will be able to finish the whole story (15,000 word minimum) by the September 23rd deadline.
This last bit is the most important. Since it gets handed to an artist at this point, we'd like for the artist not to work on something that isn't going to get done.

A short paragraph length summary/blurb that can be posted publicly on the comm for the artists to claim from.
This should give a good flavour of the story, but shouldn’t give everything away. You can see what people wrote last year here.

Remember you don’t need a title at this point, we all know that sometimes this can be the very last thing that you write :D.

At the end of the week we will be putting up a post detailing how to send us your rough draft and summary so please look out for that.

Finally, as always, if you have any questions about anything please get in touch, you can always PM one of the mod squad or send an email to: prosbigbang@gmail.com.

Current Mood: excited

saintvic.livejournal.com

As we are heading up to the end of April we thought is was a good time to bring up what you will need to have ready by the rough draft deadline on the 1st July .

A minimum word count of 10,000 words.
We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 8,000 words, but it's clear you're well on the way to finishing, that works for us. But if you're only at 1,000 words, we have a problem. Talk to us and let us know how you are getting on. We don’t bite..........hard.

A reasonably complete outline of any unfinished scenes
The outline can be as complete (massively detailed descriptions of every remaining incident in the story) or as brief ("insert sex scene here") as you like.

A reasonable confidence that you will be able to finish the whole story (15,000 word minimum) by the September 23rd deadline.
This last bit is the most important. Since it gets handed to an artist at this point, we'd like for the artist not to work on something that isn't going to get done.

A short paragraph length summary/blurb that can be posted publicly on the comm for the artists to claim from.
This should give a good flavour of the story, but doesn't have to give everything away. You can see what people wrote last year here.

Lastly you don’t need a title at this point, we all know that sometimes this can be the very last thing that you write :D.

We will put up more details and reminders as we get closer to the July 1st deadline but as always if you have any questions just drop a comment to this post or one of the weekly check ins, PM one of the mod squad, or send an email to prosbigbang@gmail.com.

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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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