After a great deal of delay for multiple reasons.
Art by: alea_senpai
( art behind cut )

Title: Going Home
Author: Elaiel
Artist: Tarlan
Rating: Explicit
Word count: 16787 words
Warnings: Explicit sex, unconventional relationships, prior major character death, small children.
Characters: Everett Young,Chloe Armstrong, Nicholas Rush, Rodney McKay
Author's Notes: Written for the Big Bang 2012.


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Here is your challenge this time around... Go out into the world wide web (or a library, or street corner, next door neighbor, etc) and find a quote. Any quote will do, so long as it inspires you to create for SGU ( Read more... )

The Reveal!

Below the cut is the list of authors and artists attached to each story.

Reminder

Authors & Artists: you must be in contact with one another no later than August 12, 2012.

Artists: your art drafts are due August 31, 2012

Posting Dates: There will be a note about this with the next challenge posted on the comm.

( Authors, Artists, and Story Titles! )

It's Claiming Day!! CLOSED!

Under the LJ Cut you are going to find our selection of stories to pick from. But before you get to that part, make sure you read the following points:

1. Authors who are Artists, CANNOT pick their own story.

2. Because we have fewer stories than artists, each story can be picked multiple times (but each story must ( Read more... )

What You Need To Know To Submit Your Big Bang Story:

1. Your story only needs to be a completed draft with:
a) a minimum word count of 10,000 words
b) a beginning, middle, and end (no scene place holders)
**Note: This is only the completed draft of your story. Not the finished copy that will be posted in September (unless you are already at that point ( Read more... )

Coming off from the amnesty challenge, I think trying our hand at one of kimmy4eytj's suggestions of a character challenge would be pretty cool. But how, oh how to do it, that is our question. So we're going to try this way and hope for the best!

Your submission to this challenge should be focused on only one character. Now it could be a character study of ( Read more... )

A quick note before I disappear into the wilds of my local woodlands with nothing but a compass and a truck load of civilized camping gear.

( Big Bang Artist Sign Ups - The topic near and dear to a few author's hearts. )

Okay, so the challenge this time around is to use a trope to fuel your inspiration!

It can be any trope you want to use (a list of common TV Tropes), you can even make up your own, or have your characters reference tropes in discussion or narratives. Maybe you want to do an edited pic spam of prove a trope ( Read more... )

Okay, lets stretch ourselves a little this week. Our challenge is going to be dialog - and only dialog. That means whatever kind of situation you might dream up can only be expressed through spoken words (with no he said, she asked identifying the speaker). That also means no descriptive narratives!

For artists, this will possibly be the greatest ( Read more... )