[admin] Round Three Timeline

[zulu.livejournal.com]

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

October 1 - October 15: Writers' sign-up period; artist sign-ups begin.
October 15: Writing begins.
December 15: Halfway point.
February 15: Complete draft of stories are due; artist sign-ups end.
February 15 - February 25: Artists choose stories.
February 25 - March 25: Artists create art.
March 15: Final drafts [edited, betaed, word-perfect] are due.
March 25: Artists' submissions are due.
April 1: Archive opens.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

1. October 15 through February 15 is approximately 120 days. To write 20 000 words in 120 days, you will be writing about 5000 words a month, or 1250 words a week, or just under 170 words a day. Following this, there will be another month (February 15 - March 15) in which you can have your story thoroughly betaed.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. This year, artists will receive complete drafts, rather than final drafts. Therefore, artists may potentially create art for scenes which are later cut or altered in the final draft. Writers and artists should be aware that this is a possibility.

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

Writers' sign-ups are here. Artists' and vidders' sign-ups will open in a few days.

Comments

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Will there be any dialogue between the artists and the authors?

[zulu.livejournal.com]

Potentially, though usually this is up to the artists' discretion. The reasoning is that the stories act as a prompts for the artists. If they do not wish to illustrate a particular scene, then they should not be put under pressure from the writers to do so. The rules of the challenge state that the artists are under no obligation to create specific art. However, some artists enjoy getting a sense of what the writer would like, and getting input from the writers to help them shape what they want to create.

Since the stories are anonymous when the artists pick them, artist/writer communication is moderated to an extent. In practice, this means that if an artist wishes to speak to a writer, the mods ask the writer if they're all right with the artist having their email address. Then we pass on that email so that the artist and writer can talk. The reverse is also true. If you as writer wished to speak to the artist who picked your story, we would ask the artist if that was something they'd be interested in, and then we pass on the email address. Beyond that, any dialogue is up to the writer and the artist. (We ask whether it's permissable to exchange email addresses for privacy reasons. However, if the writer wanted to PM the artist, then that's outside the purview of the challenge and obviously we wouldn't control that at all.)

Hope this helps!

[j-house-addict.livejournal.com]

How do I go about finding a beta? I know the story isn't due for awhile but it might be beneficial to have one person who can read the story as it's being created.

Any info you can give me will be helpful.

[zulu.livejournal.com]

You might have to do some asking around, but one good place to start would be to post on housebigbangers. Give people an idea of your pairing and the mood of the story, and how you'd work best with a beta, and hopefully, a kind and generous person will speak up in comments!

[j-house-addict.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I will do that when I get a free minute!