ROUND 5 - ROUGH DRAFTS NOW DUE
Authors - Your drafts are now due and you have five days to submit to the mods! Please contact your mods immediately if you are going to be delayed. We will chase you for your rough draft if we don’t hear from you and if you don’t respond to our gentle nudges, we’ll mark you as “dropped.”
Please email your mods at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com with your draft story as an attachment in .doc (MS-Word) format only.
The title of your email should read: YOUR LJ USER NAME - Story - TITLE (even if just working)
Your draft post should contain the following (cut and paste into your email, including the HTML, so we don't have to reformat when it comes time to do the artist post):
LJ User Name - Author:
Title: (Can be final or working)
Crossover Fandom: Only if relevant
Characters and Pairings:
Likely rating:
Email Address:
Current Word Count:
Summary: (Can be final or working)
What are the writing rough draft requirements? At the rough draft point, stories should be 75% of the challenge minimum word count:
● Mini Bang: 5,625
● Big Bang: 7,500
● Super Big Bang: 15,000
Authors will be given five days to check in. If you cannot make this timeframe please let us know in advance.
What if I don’t want art or if I plan on doing my own art? We do know that some Big Bang challenges are a lot more relaxed about this - that the sole point of having a rough draft turned in is to prove that you have art-ready fic and won’t take up an artist’s time if you can’t complete the challenge.
For this round, which is the first time we’re specifically allowing authors to claim their own stories after a set amount of time, we are still going to insist on a rough draft turn in. Remember, you can always scale back to a Mini Bang and your rough draft requirements are 5,625 words.
We will chase you for your rough drafts. You will have five days to submit your rough drafts and we will reach out to you if we don’t hear from you. If 48 hours pass and you don’t reply to our contacts, we will mark you as a default. At this point, defaulting will have no ramifications on future participation, since an artist hasn’t committed to creating art for your fic.
Of course, if you then contact us and tell us that external forces kept you from replying, we will work with you to see that you get back on track.
What should the author's final draft look like? You are expected to turn in a draft that meets the minimum challenge word count when the challenge period closes, but you will have until your posting date to finish your story. So, if the challenge closes on September 1st, and your posting date is two weeks after that, we expect you to have sent in a story that is mostly complete, but we also realize that those two weeks can mean everything to a writer working on a deadline. What we don’t want is to hear that you plan to write your entire story between the challenge close date and your posting date.
What if I need an extension? We will be granting extensions on a case-by-case basis. If you do need an extension, please contact the mods or PM or email the community - whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the mods:
Elrhiarhodan - Email at elrhiarhodan1@gmail.com
Theatregirl7299 - Email at theatregirl7299@gmail.com
Or you can email the community at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com.
Please email your mods at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com with your draft story as an attachment in .doc (MS-Word) format only.
The title of your email should read: YOUR LJ USER NAME - Story - TITLE (even if just working)
Your draft post should contain the following (cut and paste into your email, including the HTML, so we don't have to reformat when it comes time to do the artist post):
LJ User Name - Author:
Title: (Can be final or working)
Crossover Fandom: Only if relevant
Characters and Pairings:
Likely rating:
Email Address:
Current Word Count:
Summary: (Can be final or working)
What are the writing rough draft requirements? At the rough draft point, stories should be 75% of the challenge minimum word count:
● Mini Bang: 5,625
● Big Bang: 7,500
● Super Big Bang: 15,000
Authors will be given five days to check in. If you cannot make this timeframe please let us know in advance.
What if I don’t want art or if I plan on doing my own art? We do know that some Big Bang challenges are a lot more relaxed about this - that the sole point of having a rough draft turned in is to prove that you have art-ready fic and won’t take up an artist’s time if you can’t complete the challenge.
For this round, which is the first time we’re specifically allowing authors to claim their own stories after a set amount of time, we are still going to insist on a rough draft turn in. Remember, you can always scale back to a Mini Bang and your rough draft requirements are 5,625 words.
We will chase you for your rough drafts. You will have five days to submit your rough drafts and we will reach out to you if we don’t hear from you. If 48 hours pass and you don’t reply to our contacts, we will mark you as a default. At this point, defaulting will have no ramifications on future participation, since an artist hasn’t committed to creating art for your fic.
Of course, if you then contact us and tell us that external forces kept you from replying, we will work with you to see that you get back on track.
What should the author's final draft look like? You are expected to turn in a draft that meets the minimum challenge word count when the challenge period closes, but you will have until your posting date to finish your story. So, if the challenge closes on September 1st, and your posting date is two weeks after that, we expect you to have sent in a story that is mostly complete, but we also realize that those two weeks can mean everything to a writer working on a deadline. What we don’t want is to hear that you plan to write your entire story between the challenge close date and your posting date.
What if I need an extension? We will be granting extensions on a case-by-case basis. If you do need an extension, please contact the mods or PM or email the community - whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact the mods:
Elrhiarhodan - Email at elrhiarhodan1@gmail.com
Theatregirl7299 - Email at theatregirl7299@gmail.com
Or you can email the community at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com.