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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 2018 Pros Big Bang Collection has been made available here (yeah, there). 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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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
The mods of the 2018 Big Bang are extremely pleased to announce the writers' and artists' match ups! I am so excited!

Writers, you will receive an email with the contact details of your artist.

Artists, you will receive an email with your writer's info and their rough draft.

If you haven't had an email by the end of the week, please let us know by emailing us at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com. Also if you see any mistakes in this list, drop us a line. Thanks to everybody!

Here we go )
[identity profile] loxleyprince.livejournal.com
To give our 2018 Pros BB artists a heads-up on the way they'll be claiming their stories, here's an outline of the story claiming process.

The Artist Claiming post will go up on

Monday 9th July at 1600 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

That is:-

0900 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) for the US West Coast cousins
1200 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) for the US East Coast cousins
1700 British Summer Time (BST) for the UK cousins
1800 Central European Summer Time (CEST) for the European cousins

If you're not in any of those time zones, you can use the World Clock Time Zone Converter to determine the time in your location.

The Artist Claiming post will contain 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 claim stories by adding a comment to the post which includes your first, second, third, and fourth choices.

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 story has already been claimed, you will be assigned your second pick. If your second pick has also already been claimed, you will be allocated your third pick, and so on. We chose this allocation method to ensure that:

• every artist has a decent chance of getting their first or second choice, and...
• artists who claim early will get their story assigned early, so they can get to work on art as quickly as possible.

Once you have been assigned a story, you'll be sent the rough draft of that story, so you don't have to work from just the summary, along with contact details of your writer. This year we've got more artists than writers, so some stories may get art from more than one artist.

If you have a question about the Artist Claiming process, please add it as a comment to this post.

Huge thanks once again to our artists for volunteering their time and talent for this year's Pros BB! :-)
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
First off, thanks to everybody who's worked hard to participate in this year's Big Bang. We had our rough draft deadline and I'm very pleased to announce the participating writers for this year's Big Bang! In alphabetical order, I give you:


ci5mates
dawnwind
Fiorenza_a
golden bastet
klara3745
krisser
lbc
LilyK
merentha13
Tig

Keep your eyes peeled because artists' claiming will be coming up shortly! Woohoo!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
The rough draft deadline for the Pros Big Bang looms ever closer! Your files are due by midnight PDT, July 1 (that's UTC -7).

If you need to review the requirements, you can find them in the previous post. Submission instructions are:

Create two separate files. One file should contain your rough draft and the other your summary. We ask that you use the following naming convention:

prosbigbang_roughdraft_yourname.doc

prosbigbang_summary_yourname.doc

Send your two files to the Pros Big Bang email address: prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com

Let us know if you have any questions! We can work with you!!

Looking forward to seeing those drafts!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
How to submit your rough draft and summary



Here is the information on how to turn in your Pros Big Bang story draft and summary. Those of you who have participated in previous years will find that the submission information is entirely unchanged, but here it is again.

Please create two separate files. One file should contain your rough draft and the other your summary. We ask that you use the following naming convention:

prosbigbang_roughdraft_yourname.doc

prosbigbang_summary_yourname.doc

So if I were submitting, my files would be named prosbigbang_roughdraft_krisser.doc and prosbigbang_summary_krisser.doc.

File format: As suggested by the naming template, we would prefer to receive your files in Microsoft Word .doc format (NOT .docx, which is what newer Word versions produce by default; Word will still save .doc files, though). If .doc is not possible for you, we also accept .rtf (Rich Text Format) and .txt (plaintext).

Send your two files to the Pros Big Bang email address: prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com

The deadline: Midnight, July 1, PDT

(Pacific Daylight Time is GMT-7 hours.)

If you need to familiarize yourself with the draft/summary requirements, you can find them listed here

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the above email address, or you can PM any one of the mods.

Once we have all your files, we will be removing identifying information and posting summaries for artist claims on July 9.

Good luck, writers! :)
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[identity profile] krisserci5.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 6000 words.
We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 5,000 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 (10,000 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. Please also include a warning if one applies (e.g. for subjects like death, rape or underage sex) or, if the story needs a warning but you are worried about spoilers, you can let us know that you choose not to warn.

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 be putting a post up in a few days time 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 by emailing the mods at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com.
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Admit it, you've been thinking about it.

Putting pencil to paper (or song to vidding software), capturing the roughness of Doyle's cheek, the curve of Bodie's... cheek.

Ahem. :D

Well, anyway, this is a reminder that the deadline for Artist sign-ups is the 31st of May. If you've been holding off on adding your name to the list but would like to be involved, please read below.

Graphics, videos, manips, macros, original art, animation: whatever you can think of doing, we say bring it on! - so please consider coming along for the ride and playing with us and the Lads.

And now for the legalese-ish stuff:

Rules For Artists:
  1. You agree to create at least one piece of art or one vid for a Pros Big Bang story.Collaborations between artists are also allowed. Just let us know when you sign up if you are planning on working with a partner.
  2. 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!
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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 opened on 1st May and will 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, you can hop over to the artists' signup post or 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. We're more than happy to answer any questions by email or in the comments below.
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Well, it's certainly been fun on this end... Doggie drama abounded (he somehow scratched his cornea, and it went downhill from there). But he's back home, cone and all, and beyond getting over the sedative, because he does not like eye drops :-( he's doing okay.

So, without further ado, it's time for the Rough draft requirements reminder :cue dramatic music:

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

I. A minimum word count of 6,600 words.
We're not going to be totally tyrannical about this. If you're only at 4,000 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. (At least most of the mods don't.)

II. 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.

III. A reasonable confidence that you will be able to finish the whole story (10,000 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.

IV. 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 for the last few years: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014.

Please also include a warning if one applies (e.g. for subjects like death, rape or underage sex) or, if the story needs a warning but you are worried about spoilers, you can let us know that you choose not to warn.

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 be putting a post up in June 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 by emailing the mods at prosbigbangtwo@gmail.com.

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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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