FAQ

[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!

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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

[emisolde]

This is kinda similar to scooby's question, but I just wanted to check: if I wanted to write a sort of vignette series (like you mentioned in your reply to scooby) but all in the same fandom with the same characters (although perhaps with different central heroines, I'm not sure yet, but they'll all be from a core group of people who interact regularly) would I sign up for multiple tiny/mini bangs or one big one and just divide within it? Or is it up to me?

I'm still not entirely settled on which of a couple of story ideas I want to write, let alone the structure of them, so this might turn out to be an irrelevant question in the long run, but I wanted to check before signing up! :D Also, if I did pick that fic and then sign up for, say, one big fic, but then decided it fitted much better as a series of shorter ones, would I be able to change as long as it's before the rough draft deadline?

[raktajinos]

hi. I'd say its up to you which way you'd prefer to sign up with - whatever feels more right/less daunting/etc. Most people end up changing something from their original signup, so it's not a problem if you go back and forth. lol, I might not even stay in the fandom I signed up for :P.

You can make any changes to what you are writing up until the rough draft submission. I suppose you'd even have some leeway after that if it was in the same fandom, like in how its posted (chapters vs individual entries linked as a series). Mostly its the fandoms and characters that need to be finalized for the rough draft so that artists have something to work with. Overall structure and length can still be played with. Last round we had someone submit a rough draft for a Mini Bang and then by the time posting came around it was well past the Big level (which was fine).

Which I hope wasn't confusing. :P We've never done the vignette thing before (it just sort of emerged organically this round), so I'm mostly going by a 'play it by ear' route

[emisolde]

Hi! Thanks, that's super helpful :D I'll have a think today and then sign up one way or the other this evening, but won't worry too much about it then, hahaha :P

It's weird that multiple people are thinking of vignettes this round but haven't before though! I'll just aim to keep on top of it and keep thinking about it :) I'm super looking forward to taking part!

[seren_ccd]

Hi I know the February Author Check-in is coming up in a couple of days - do we need to prepare anything for this? I've got about 1000 words of my story, but wasn't sure if we needed more.

Thank you!

[raktajinos]

nope, its just super casual. There's no requirement for what you need to have done.

I mean, I usually ask some silly questions too...but no way to prepare for those :P

[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

[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

[happywriter06]

Where does it say you have to have a AO3 account? I can't find it.

[raktajinos]

hi, you don't have to have one. Most people post on ao3, but you certainly don't have to. It was a requirement when I took over the comm last round and we didn't have any issues but I'm certainly open to changing that. You can post wherever you want as long as it can be publicly accessed (so really no f-locked journals). I'll change this in the rules to reflect this

[polleekin]

I have two questions.

1. Is RPS allowed? I was planning on writing a story based on the French Mistake from Supernatural. In it the fictional characters are thrust into a world where they meet some of the real life actors of the show. It's generally not considered RPS since it's fictionalized depictions of real actors written within the canon world of the fictional show. But it is a grey area and I've seen a places where the French Mistake falls under the category of "no RPS" so I wanted to double check before I got too far into my story.

2. One of my stories that I'm working on is a case fic where the main female character goes missing and her friends and family try to find her. The story would be focused on her. She would be present in the beginning and end of the story and I would write sections of the middle from her POV. But other parts would be written from other characters POV during a time when she was missing. Is this okay for the challenge? Since it focuses on her I was assuming it would be, but I wanted to be