ADMIN: Rough Draft FAQs

[ariestess]

First off, the mods would like to take this opportunity to officially say that all deadlines for thelittlebang have been pushed back by one week. The updated remainder of the schedule is as follows:

• Rough Drafts Due: September 19 by 23:59 EST
  
  
• Editing, Complementary Fanworks Creation: September 20 - October 23
  Claiming and creation of complementary fanworks, whether, fanart, vids, or written works.
  Editing of initial fanworks.
  
  
• Posting Begins: October 24
  Initial and complementary fanworks to be posted. Please note: Stories will be posted at the AO3. We will create a challenge for TLB. Fanart and vids will be hosted on alternate webspace. (If the AO3 is up and running on hosting fanart, it will be hosted at the AO3 as well, but we can't promise anything, of course.)

That aside, let me try to answer all of your questions about the rough draft process here.

When you say "first draft," what exactly do you mean?
For the purpose of thelittlebang, we're defining "first draft" as: anything ranging from a mostly finished story that's just in need of a polishing beta to a story that has all of the major elements of plot/storyline included, but is missing some scene details/prose and is still in need of fairly deep beta-ing.

The following FAQs should help you figure out whether or not your draft fits into that (pretty broad) category.

( The rest of the FAQs about rough drafts )

If you have any questions about first drafts that haven't been addressed, please feel free to ask them in the comments to this post and we'll do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.

ADMIN: Rough Draft Posting Guidelines

[ariestess]

Please send your first draft to both ariestess @ spottyseal(at)gmail(dot)com & havocthecat @ havocthecat(at)gmail(dot)com. We will do our best to send out little "got it!" replies so you know we got your story. If you should happen to get one from both of us, please forgive us for both sending it off. *g*

Your subject line should be [username you signed up with] - ROUGH DRAFT

We need your story in plain text format. Though if you want to send a duplicate version in RTF as well (say, in case you used formatting, rather than putting in html tags), we are so not going to complain.

You should have the header that's behind the cut tag in at least two places: The start of your fic, and the body of your e-mail.

( Required header info )

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to frenetic typing. :)