You may have noticed already, but the WIP Big Bang Challenge is not running this year. That is because I didn't have the time or energy to run it right now. Apologies to anyone who is disappointed in missing it this year!

On the same note, I will be stepping down as a mod for WIP Big Bang. Running the bang is a lot of work through a large portion of the year, and I'm at a point where I would like to be able to use some of that time and energy for other projects. I have very much enjoyed modding WIP Big Bang for the past 6 years! Thank you so much to everyone has participated, and I hope you've all enjoyed it as well. It means a lot to me that I could be a part of this community and see so many fantastic fics and pieces of art being finished.

But don't worry, WIP Big Bang is not disappearing! penaltywaltz  has agreed to take over as head mod and I know she will do a fantastic job!! Look for further posts from her soon about the bang for this year.

Thank you again for past few years at WIP Big Bang! I look forward to seeing many more finished WIPs here in the future :)

 Hey everybody! A couple of things to mention today.

Date claiming has been going really well! Actually, we've had a lot more ppl claim dates than I expected based on previous years. As such, all the current dates are full. But you still have until 8:59pm CST today to claim a date!

So what I'm doing is opening up the current reserve dates of September 1st to 7th to claiming. If you have already claimed a date, you can leave another comment on the date claim post and request your date be moved to one of the now open dates. Please be sure to mention that you are requesting to change dates. If you haven't claimed a date yet, you can request one of those dates or one of the earlier dates if they open up. If all the dates fill up again, which I don't expect to happen this late, I will post again about that. Dates are still first come, first served.

The call for betas is open! You can request a beta or offer your beta services on livejournal, dreamwidth, and/or tumblr.

There is now an AO3 collection for this year! It is unmoderated and revealed. You are not required to post your fic or art to AO3, but you must have the full thing posted publicly somewhere by your claimed posting date. You can start posting today, July 20th, if you'd like. A "how to" post with info on bragging rights posts should go up tomorrow.

 If you've not gotten a confirmation for your snippets, please email me at wipbigbang@gmail.com ASAP! The art claims post will be going up tomorrow. They will be first come, first served, so keep an eye on this space if you're interested in doing art!

Also, I apologize for not emailing those of you who signed up on the artist interest form. I seem to have deleted the info for that, so no emails for that. If you're interested in getting a preview of the fandoms like I would have sent, email me and I will send you something.

We are gearing up for a new round of the WIP Big Bang, so before sign ups start on Friday, I'd like to welcome our new mods!

This year, we have an amazing five new mods joining biffelderberry  and I. Please say hello to scandalbaby, st_aurafina, mahariel, touchofstrange, and ereshai! They may hop on here to say hi and introduce themselves, so please make them feel welcome. I will still be the main contact mod, but if you have any questions or concerns, any of the mods should be able to point you in the right direction for answers.

Hi everyone! I just had a couple of things I wanted to talk about real quick.

First off is communication with mods, i.e. me. At the moment I'm the only mod running things, so unfortunately I can't respond to every comment on every platform. I'm trying my best, but there are a lot of you and I don't have much extra time! That means that I haven't been responding to comments unless I think it really needs response, like questions or drop outs, and often my responses come several days late. So please don't feel put off if you don't get a response from me, especially on check ins! If you really want one and I haven't responded in a couple of days, feel free to send an email and hopefully I can get to that faster.

Secondly, I've updated the FAQ a bit due to some confusion about emails. Basically it says that unfortunately we don't have the time to keep up an email list to send out reminders about deadlines, but please feel free to email us if you need to. If you have any questions about the FAQ update or about emails, don't hesitate to ask!

Lastly, just a few reminders:

• Snippets are due this Sunday, May 14th, at 11:59pm CST. Instructions on how to submit snippets can be found here.


• The discussion post is still open for you to post about your story and talk with others about theirs. If you're in a rut and need some help, try it out! And if you're willing to talk with other participatns about their stories, consider tracking the post so you can keep up with the comments.


• The artist interest form is open until May 14th as well. If you're interested in being first to know about art claims, please be sure to fill it out.

 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.

 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 :)

Hey guys!

I just wanted to let you know that I am pretty behind on sending snippet confirmation emails right now. I will hopefully have all of that taken care of by tomorrow night, but if you haven't received a confirmation email by then, don't panic. I'm going in order of when I received the emails, so the earlier you sent yours in, the earlier you will get your confirmation. All emails should be out by Wednesday night CST unless something major prevents it.

Art claims may be delayed a day or two depending on when I can get through the confirmation emails and get the list set up, but I will do my best to be quick! In the meantime, please point all of your artist friends this direction! We're going to need a lot of artists for all these fabulous fics :)

Thank you for your patience!