WIP Big Bang (Finish Your Shit)

 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! :)

 There's only about a week left of the bang for this year! I hope everyone is working very hard to put the finishing touches on their fics/art. For now I have several very important notes/reminders, as well as a poll that I would really appreciate if everyone would leave their thoughts on it.

All the remaining fics have been claimed for art, including our first pinch hit. Thank you so much, everyone, especially those of you who volunteered to take multiple claims!

Hopefully this will be the end of art claims for this year, but there is usually at least a couple of times where we need pinch hitters. This may be because an artist has had to drop or because they have simply disappeared. Authors, if you have not been able to contact your artist or your artist does not return your attempts at contact for four or more days, please send me an email. I will attempt to get you in contact with your artist or find you a pinch hitter if necessary.

Reminder: Date claims are open until July 6th. Please talk with your author/artist about what dates work best for both of you.

Just a few very important reminders:

• Rough draft check in is going until tomorrow, Sunday June 26th, at 11:59pm CST. That means you have about 36hrs if you haven't checked in yet. Authors AND artists who do not check in will be considered dropped.


• Posting claims will begin Wednesday, June 29th. Please discuss with your author/artist what dates work best.


• There are still 8 fics that have not been claimed for art. We REALLY want these amazing fics to be claimed before posting claims, so PLEASE go check them out.

I hope everyone's fics and art are going splendidly! :)

 Hey guys,

I know I have a LOT of comments and emails I've yet to respond to. I just got back from a week and a half "vacation" and I didn't think it was going to put me so far behind on modding here... But I promise I will get to those asap and will hopefully have everything up to date by Sunday night!

One thing I did see several ppl worried about was the rough draft check that will go up tomorrow. I will respond to the messages I have individually, but for anyone else worried, you do NOT have to turn anything in for this check. All I need is an assurance that you are where you should be or will get there soon. This goes for both authors and artists, but I will have a lot more on that in the post tomorrow.

I think that should cover the most important things rn, but if you have any other questions or concerns, please leave me a comment or email and I will get back to you as soon as I can :)