How to Submit Your Rough Draft
We're almost to September 4th, 2011 when rough drafts are due. If you've finished your fic or have 90% of it done please follow the the instructions below on submitting your rough draft.
Your draft doesn't have to be betaed or make sense to anyone but you. We aren't reading it, just checking to make sure you have 1) 20,000 words writen (or close), and 2) have a beginning, middle, and end in sight. You'll receive an email saying we've received your rough draft. Once we've checked it over for the requirements, you'll receive an email letting you know everything is good to go. Don't worry if it takes a few days, we expect a lot of fics and will get to each one.
Here's how to send your drafts to us.
#1 - SAVE your story as a .doc or .rtf file. If neither of these are possible for you, email us and we'll talk. Please name it First Draft [TITLE] by [AUTHOR]. Use the author name you want your story to go under, as it may turn up in your art!
#2 - Attach it to an email and send it to warbigbang@gmail.com
#3 - Use the Subject line "[your LJ name] - First Draft Submission"
In your document and email, please use the following header:
Title:
Author:
Fandom:
Characters/Pairings:
Warnings: (character death, non-con, smut, etc)
Rating:
Current Word Count:
Beta(s):
Summary:
Complete: (yes or no, if no how much is left)
And just to answer some FAQs about those:
Title: [This may well end up on your art, so please choose wisely!]
Author: [To help me sort out who's submitted and who hasn't. If you go by an author name different from your LJ name or have changed your LJ name since you signed up, please list them all so I can find you in my spreadsheet and check you off.]
Series: [So your artist/fanmixer knows which canon they should be working with.]
Characters/Pairings: [Artists will need to know if they'll be able to do art for your fic.]
Warnings: [Artists need to know if they can handle whatever's in your fic to do art for it.]
Rating: [choose from G, PG, PG-13, M, R, NC-17] (I know other systems are used but to avoid confusion please use the MPAA one.)
Current Word Count: [This should be close/exactly/over 20k WITHOUT any notes.]
Beta(s): [You're going to need one! Please see the previous post if you need help finding a beta.]
Summary: [Provide as much detail as you think you need to give your artist a good idea of what's going on in your story. Just don't be too wordy as once artists have claimed stories, you can send the artist your draft to read or the mods can send them to the artists for you.]
Complete: [To let your artists know how much more story needs to be told/filled in.]
Your draft doesn't have to be betaed or make sense to anyone but you. We aren't reading it, just checking to make sure you have 1) 20,000 words writen (or close), and 2) have a beginning, middle, and end in sight. You'll receive an email saying we've received your rough draft. Once we've checked it over for the requirements, you'll receive an email letting you know everything is good to go. Don't worry if it takes a few days, we expect a lot of fics and will get to each one.
Here's how to send your drafts to us.
#1 - SAVE your story as a .doc or .rtf file. If neither of these are possible for you, email us and we'll talk. Please name it First Draft [TITLE] by [AUTHOR]. Use the author name you want your story to go under, as it may turn up in your art!
#2 - Attach it to an email and send it to warbigbang@gmail.com
#3 - Use the Subject line "[your LJ name] - First Draft Submission"
In your document and email, please use the following header:
Title:
Author:
Fandom:
Characters/Pairings:
Warnings: (character death, non-con, smut, etc)
Rating:
Current Word Count:
Beta(s):
Summary:
Complete: (yes or no, if no how much is left)
And just to answer some FAQs about those:
Title: [This may well end up on your art, so please choose wisely!]
Author: [To help me sort out who's submitted and who hasn't. If you go by an author name different from your LJ name or have changed your LJ name since you signed up, please list them all so I can find you in my spreadsheet and check you off.]
Series: [So your artist/fanmixer knows which canon they should be working with.]
Characters/Pairings: [Artists will need to know if they'll be able to do art for your fic.]
Warnings: [Artists need to know if they can handle whatever's in your fic to do art for it.]
Rating: [choose from G, PG, PG-13, M, R, NC-17] (I know other systems are used but to avoid confusion please use the MPAA one.)
Current Word Count: [This should be close/exactly/over 20k WITHOUT any notes.]
Beta(s): [You're going to need one! Please see the previous post if you need help finding a beta.]
Summary: [Provide as much detail as you think you need to give your artist a good idea of what's going on in your story. Just don't be too wordy as once artists have claimed stories, you can send the artist your draft to read or the mods can send them to the artists for you.]
Complete: [To let your artists know how much more story needs to be told/filled in.]