WIP Big Bang (Finish Your Shit)

Snippets are due in 1 hour!

Stories don't have to be finished by then, but we do need your snippets or you won't receive art. Here is how to submit them. Please get in touch by then, we are still missing snippets from a lot of you. I still have several waiting in my inbox, but I will try to have all confirmation emails sent by Monday night. So if you don't receive a confirmation by then, please let us know.

Go, go go!!!!

Snippets are due in approximately 36 hours, so make sure you get yours in! They are due Sunday, May 14th, at 11:59pm CST. You can go here to find out how to submit your snippets. Thank you to everyone who has already gotten theirs in! Art claims will begin on Wednesday, May 17th. Those who have signed up on the artist interest form will get an email on Tuesday with a heads up on the time.

Your snippets are due on Sunday, May 14th at 11:59pm CST, so we’re going to go ahead and start collecting them. This doesn't mean your story has to be complete right now (though you should have 80% of it done by June 18th), it just means we're collecting snippets for when your artist claims you.

What we need from you:

Author Name on AO3 or Fanfiction.net*
Livejournal/Dreamwidth Name*
Story Title
Fandom
Pairings, Characters
Rating
Warnings (Violence, Non-Con/Dub-Con, Incest, Major Character Death, Etc)
Summary

*Your name will not be included on the claims post. This is for organizational purposes.

And three snippets which should be between 500-1000 words each. These will help your artist match the tone of your work, so try to pick excerpts that really encompass the tone and feeling of your story. Please include them directly in the body of the email. Please do not send attachments. Please include ALL of these things in your email with the subject [YOUR NAME] WIP BIG BANG SNIPPETS. Emails can be sent to wipbigbang@gmail.com. If you have multiple fics, please send a separate, numbered email for each one. You will receive a confirmation email once we’ve gotten your email.

To make it easier, here's a copy and paste-able textarea to put in your email:

AO3/Fanfiction.net Name:<br />Livejournal/Dreamwidth Name:<br />Story Title:<br />Fandom:<br />Pairings, Characters:<br />Rating:<br />Warnings:<br />Summary:<br /><br />SNIPPET ONE:<br /><br />SNIPPET TWO:<br /><br />SNIPPET THREE:

Failure to send us snippets or an email by May 14th will NOT drop you from the big bang, but you will not receive art for your fic. This is, however, the last switch to change fics, so be sure to send us an email if you would like to do that. If you are bringing in your own artist or would like to opt out of receiving art, please let us know even if you’ve talked to use already. You do NOT have to send snippets if you’re bringing an artist or opting out, but we still need to verify your info.

 Hey everyone!

It's time for our first check point! This isn't mandatory, but highly encouraged. We're just seeing how everybody's doing, if there are any concerns we need to be worried about, etc. Comments on this post are screened, so nobody else can see your comment, so feel free to vent as much as you need to. But please let us know how you're doing with that WIP. Any closer to done? Even if it's only a couple of words to assure us you're alive, please check in! :)

Next check point will be April 30th.

 The sign up period for authors has come to an end! We had 180 people sign up, which is about the same as last year. If you signed up and haven't received a confirmation email, please email us at wipbigbang@gmail.com with your username so we can confirm your sign up. As per requests last year, a post will go up in the next few days where you can discuss your fic if you'd like some community support/involvement/etc. I'm so excited to see the awesome fics you all finish this round :)

We still need artists though! The artist interest form will remain open until May 14th. If you know any artists who might like to create art for the bang, please point them our way!

This is your reminder that author sign ups close tomorrow, April 7th, at 11:59pm CST. If you haven't signed up yet, you still have time, so get to it! And there's still time to spread the word and get all of your friends and fandom buddies to join you too. The more the merrier and more WIPs that will finally be finished! The artist interest form will remain open until May 14th.

Welcome to the fourth annual WIP Big Bang! If you're interested in signing up, make sure you have first read all our FAQs. There are a couple of changes this year, so please give it (and this post) at least a skim even if you’re a returning participant.

Sign ups will be through one of the google forms listed below. If you are planning to do multiple fics, please fill out a separate form for each one just to help us keep organized. This year we are doing something a little different with artist sign ups (so we’d love to hear from you about if you like/don’t like this!). Instead of a sign up for artists, we are doing an “artist interest form.” The way this works is that artists interested in possibly doing art for the bang will fill out the form and we will contact them with art claims details a day or two before the post goes up. That means artist are not technically signed up for the bang until they’ve claimed a fic for art. We’re hoping this will help get fics claimed more quickly, as well as prevent those who are a little hesitant from not filling out the form in fear that they’re going to lock themselves into something.

The only required sections are username, platform, and email, but please fill out as much of the form as you can. It will really help us to keep track of everything. You can contact a mod later if you change your mind on the details of your story, or if you put a few options on the sign up you can narrow it down later. After you sign up, you should receive a confirmation email to the email you put on the form. If you do not receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, please email a mod at wipbigbang@gmail.com.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!




Click Here For Author Sign Up Form Signs ups are closed, thank you!
Click Here For Artist Interest Form



Author sign ups will close on Friday, April 7, 2017. Artist interest sign ups will close on May 14th, 2017. All times are 11:59 CST. If you have any questions about sign ups, please feel free to leave a comment here.

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If you need help you can always contact a mod (reeby10 or biffelderberry) and we will do our best to make sure that you get your story/art finished.

Here is the promised feedback survey! Quite a bit later than I intended, my apologies...

There are about 20 questions (only 4 are required) about everything from whether you did fic or art to if we should have art minimums. I'm not sure how long it will take to complete (my guess is less than 10 minutes), but I would really, really appreciate it if you could all complete the whole thing. Even if you had to drop out or didn't end up posting, I'd like to hear from you. It's very important to me to see how things went this year and how things can be improved in the future.

All answers will remain anonymous, though I will put together some stats if anyone is interested in seeing that. If you have any other concerns that aren't addressed in the survey, feel free to ask them here. There is also an option at the end for any comments, questions, suggestions, etc. and if you leave your email or username there I will reply to you privately. The survey will close on December 31.

Click here to take the survey.

Thank you! :)

Art Title: Art for Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
Artist: loracine
Fandom: X-Files RPF
Warnings: none

Master Art Post