[admin] Round Two Timeline

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Welcome, potential participants! The Official Round Two Big Bang Timeline is as follows:

August 19 - September 1: Writers' sign-up period; artist sign-ups begin.
September 1: Writing begins.
November 1: Halfway point.
January 7: Complete draft of stories are due.
February 7: Final drafts [edited, betaed, word-perfect] are due; artists' sign-up ends.
February 7 - February 15: Artists choose stories.
February 15 - March 15: Artists create art.
March 15: Artists' submissions are due.
March 25: Archive opens.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. The complete draft must be a finished story and it must meet the 20 000 word minimum. The final draft has been betaed, spell-checked, looked over for typos and is the draft that will appear on the archive.

2. We hope that writers and artists will have an opportunity to view their stories before the archive opens, to check for typos or HTML issues. This MAY NOT BE POSSIBLE, but the mods will not be correcting any typos in the final drafts, so we will ATTEMPT TO OFFER THIS OPPORTUNITY.

3. This year, stories will be posted ONE AT A TIME, one story every three to four days, beginning with the first final draft received and ending with the last final draft received. The first story and its art will be posted on March 25, and the posting will continue until all stories have been shown.

4. All questions and/or concerns will be gratefully received either as comments to this entry or as email to housebigbangmods@gmail.com.

Our next post will be on August 19, when sign-ups begin. We look forward to hearing from you then!

Comments

[spoopy.livejournal.com]

THIS IS SO EXCITING

[zulu.livejournal.com]

YAY. It totally is.

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

*is excited but has no idea what to write*

[zulu.livejournal.com]

There will be a prompts post, same as last time--maybe it'll help!

[hwshipper.livejournal.com]

Indeed, that is exactly how I got my idea last time!

I still get comments on my bigbang fic, you know - had an absolutely terrific one just this week.

[bell]

A whole month to edit! And one story posted at a time! I like these changes. *thumbs up*

[zulu.livejournal.com]

I am willing to experiment! We'll see which way works better.

[nigeltde]

Um. Hypothetically, am I would you be allowed to sign up with the story I you didn't finish finish in time for last year's big bang?

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Hypothetically, I know nothing about your last year's story, and so it's not a problem. WIPs, however, or any story that's had pieces of it posted publicly, are not allowed.

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I can't work out exactly where I'm meant to sign up, but I'd like to sign up as an artist so please put me down. I'm happy to work on any genre. If this is the wrong bit, or I am too early - please point me in the right direction and I'll pop over there.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Sign ups begin August 19.

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

So I have a question -- can we have a re haul of our draft between December and March? I only ask because I know that I cannot start writing until November 5 (because of my job) but I am going to have all of November and December off to write, so theoretically, I can work this all out.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

A complete draft of the story is due January 7. A final, edited, typo-checked draft is due February 7. You can spend as much or as little time writing as you wish prior to January 7, as long as your complete draft meets the following criteria: 1) it is a minimum of 20 000 words; 2) it is a complete story with an ending.

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

Aaaah-aha, that's doable.

[hihoplastic.livejournal.com]

SO EXCITED!

...Terrified. But excited!

You guys are so awesome for doing this again (especially so soon!)

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Can you believe it's been a whole year? I can't!

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

Okay, but, why can't we work on the story in March? It's not like the artists are going to create graphic novels off the work.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Several reasons for this. First, who knows what your artist may want to do? Second, last year the archive opened with several errors both in links and in the text of the stories themselves, so this year we want more time to get the bugs out. Third, some writers may wish to be artists, so we want to free them up to do both. Fourth, several people had difficulty with the deadline and as a result the organizers were left scrambling at the last minute; we want to avoid that this year--the deadline is firm so that the organizers will have time for all the scrambling they may need to do.

[savemoony.livejournal.com]

I see you're point; regardless, those are not my concerns. My concern is that I'm going to write 20,000 words. I want that to be the best story possible if I'm going to spend all that time writing and rewriting it. It might get finished in February. I might reread it March only to realize I made a grave error. You're telling me I cannot tweak my story because your having technically difficulties? You intend to post one story every three days. That means you will post everything over nearly a month period. That's plenty of time for you to work out whatever kinks you might have.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you feel that way. The framework of the challenge includes the deadlines, and that won't be changing. If you feel that these restrictions are too constraining, then please don't feel obligated to participate. We're working with the lessons we learned last year, including the results of the poll for participants that surveyed how the challenge could most successfully meet their needs. The challenge is evolving each year, and if things can be improved, then next year we might tweak it again. This year, we hope to work with authors as much as possible, but we can't make any guarantees that we'll have the time to make changes and fixes to any one story. If you'd like to discuss this further, I'll invite you to email us at housebigbangmods@gmail.com. Thanks for sharing your concerns.

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I'd like to sign up as artist, but I can't find the sign-up post. Could you please give me the link? Thanks!! :-)

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Hi! Artists' sign-ups will begin September 1, and there will be a post then.

[wihluta.livejournal.com]

ah, thanks! :-)