Posting Guidelines

[1d_bigbang_mods]

We're getting so close to the beginning of posting and we're super excited! Before posting happens, though, a quick run-down of how that's going to work:

1. Verify your posting date. If the date assigned to you does not work for you, please let us know ASAP so that we can make the appropriate alterations.
2. You may post your fic at any time between 12:01 am and 11:59 pm in your time zone on your posting day.
3. You may post your fic wherever you prefer - AO3, LJ, etc. (We recommend against tumblr but if you must, you must). Post in as many parts as you need to but do keep in mind that your entire fic needs to go up on your posting day even if it is split into parts.
4. If you post to AO3, we have a Big Bang collection set up! The One Direction Big Bang collection is here, and the Round One subcollection is here. Make sure you post to the Round One collection! If you've never posted to a collection before - it will still be accessible through your AO3 account, too; this just makes the big bang fic easily navigable on the archive.
5. Artists - please consult with your writers about where to post the art. If you both decide that fic and art should be incorporated together in the same posts, make the necessary arrangements for that. If you prefer to post art and fic separately and individually, that is entirely up to you!
6. No matter where you post your fic, you will need to make a masterpost to this community. A masterpost includes header information (fic title, author name, rating, ships, content warnings, word count, summary, author's note, link to your fic - whatever you usually go with is fine). The masterpost also needs to include artist header information and a link to the accompanying art, if it is not embedded in the fic post.
7. Fic should not be posted to this community, only linked to through the masterpost.
8. Once you have posted your fic to your location of choice and posted your masterpost to this community, feel free to pimp your fic out wherever you want, however you want! (Obviously don't pimp it by linking it or anything related to this fest to anyone who knows the boys on twitter, etc).
9. We have added ship, genre and rating tags that you can use when posting your masterpost. Please let us know here if there is a tag you would like to use that we have not included! (Especially OT3 tags)

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Need clarification? Drop us a note to this post!