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[raktajinos]

What is a Big Bang?Well, you sign up and challenge yourself to write a story of a minimum word length in four months! ooo. And then you get paired with an artist who will make art for your story!

Sign Up?
Author signups for Round Three are HERE. Artist signups for Round Three are HERE. Go check them out.

Can I sign up for both?Heck yes you can

Comments

[irishvampire13]

I think I'm going to have to step down. I wasn't aware that an AO3 account was a requirement to participate. I neither have nor want an AO3 account. So I guess I'll have to bow out. :-(

It's really upsetting to me, because I just finished one of mine this morning, apart from proofreading it, and I'm about a third of the way done with the other. The only good part about all this is that I'd planned to write the one I've just finished, anyway; it's part of a larger Doctor Who AU I'm in the middle of. I'd just not found the motivation to start it, and this community provided that--especially when I realized that tomorrow is the first check-in. I sat down and wrote it in its entirety in just a few hours, after days and days of not being able to get myself to focus on it.

So this community has been a great motivator to finally write it. But the other one...I feel a bit as though the effort on it was wasted. If I can't properly participate, then 500 words have gone up in smoke. It sucks, because I've been having such fun in the support community; everybody seems really nice. I like everyone I've interacted with, and I hate the thought of walking away. But I don't see that I have a choice.

♥

[raktajinos]

Hi, OMG don't go. Having an ao3 account is *not* a requirement. I'm going to reflect the rules to change that. When I inherited the community before the last round, it was just how the previous rounds had run, so I didn't change that (and it wasn't a problem last round). I've had a few people contact me over the last few days with similar concerns and I'm honestly not sure where the confusion is coming from. I wish I was able to address the growing concerns earlier.

it is *absolutely* NOT mandatory that you have an ao3 account to participate. The only requirement is that your story must be posted somewhere that is publicly accessible (so no f-locked entries and no archival sites that require a log-in to read the stuff). Most people post their work to ao3, but it's not a requirement. I'm going to make this clear in the rules and with a post - I hate to think that people would think they are excluded. I apologize that you felt excluded based on this.

So I hope you will stay in the challenge - especially after so much work having been done.