One-week draft notice, and draft submission guidelines

[gabrielbb_mods]

What you need to know:

* Absolutely every story is due to us by Sunday 2 March. There are no exceptions to this, we need to have them in hand so that we can check them for word counts and completeness, so that we know your artist will be working with a complete story. We will accept it as being the 2nd as long as it's still the 2nd somewhere in

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[gabrielbb_mods]

Not really, as that isn't really a big bang. The only exception that I can think of is if what you're creating is a work something like a diptych or triptych (google image search should be informative if the terms aren't familiar), where you have two or three artworks (well, stories in this case) that are very closely related and depend on each other for their full effect, such that you can't really post them separately. An example in fanfic might be the story I wrote for the Team Free Lover Secret Lovers Exchange last year, Your Kind Prison. Actually, I suppose it's a diptych in two different ways! The first is that the main story, which is about 25k in length, has Gabriel and Team Free Will collecting up the fallen angels and defeating Metatron, but that main story is set in a framing device: four 1k first-person monologues one by each of the archangels, giving their account of how each of them 'left' Heaven in their various ways, which reflects thematically on the decisions the rest of the angels (and humans, really) make after falling. But of course, the entire 4k framing 'story' is also a diptych (quadtych?) in itself, because you don't really understand all of what Lucifer said until you see what Michael says, and each of them saw events in a very different way.

Basically what I'm getting at is - something like that could work? A framing device, or another story very closely interwoven with the first such that they are indelibly one work. But just two or three works with a common theme (in the most trivial sense) wouldn't count as one big bang. I'd venture to say that, at least so far as my own writing goes, it's a little late in the day to be adding a complementary story or frame anyway, because in my experience they have to be written or at least planned together.

What word count are you sitting on now? And what sort of thing would you be thinking of for extending it?

[raise_the_knife]

That is actually what I was looking at, bringing in a comparative and linking the story to similar points in canon to expand on the relationship between my pairing to emphasise the emotional effect of the events in my story. I get the impression from your comment that it doesn't matter what I say, though, so I will drop out and save you the trouble.

[gabrielbb_mods]

Not at all the tone I was aiming for! It's a very grey area, but I was genuinely trying to help figure out a way that it could be made to work - without saying anything that could be made to sound like 'oh yes, just give us two vaguely linked stories' is a viable precedent for next year.

Would love to keep you around if you think it's a viable option - and it sounds like you have given it some solid thought in the same directions as I did - but of course it's up to you either way. :)

[raise_the_knife]

I wouldn't have asked if it wasn't the best option for my story and I didn't know I could get it done and pretty in time for submissions.

[gabrielbb_mods]

Whoops, sorry, I didn't see this reply (LJ is being seriously weird with notifications). But absolutely, if you're still in and think you can manage it, go for it. :) Would love to see the outcome! Do you need another 48 hours, since I was slow in responding?

[raise_the_knife]

No thank you, I won't be submitting anything.

[gabrielbb_mods]

Okay, sorry to see you go!