The Femslash Little Bang

Just a quick note to let y'all know that we are once again extending the due date for stories to be due for thelittlebang.

We will have a post up before the weekend, marking out all the requirements for posting your projects and complements. We should also have a final answer on AO3 invites for those that need them. Speaking of which, who still needs an AO3 invite yet?

RL has been plaguing your mods this entire round, and we really appreciate everyone being so patient with us while we try to get everything resolved, both IRL and here on the community.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to leave a comment and we'll get it answered asap.

thank you!

Rules for signing up as a complementer.

By signing up as a complementer, you are agreeing to create at least one substantial piece of art for the story you choose. It can be a wallpaper, book cover, collage, video, or anything you can think up, as long as the effort and time you put into it reflects the effort and time and went into the story you're working from.

Artwork must be based off of the story you are assigned, not just the fandom the story is based in. For example, if the story you are working off of is about Teyla and Elizabeth's epic battle against evil space robots (and the hot sex they have after they p0wn said evil space robots) your art should be about that, and not about Teyla and Sora's pure love.

Artists must be willing to devote time and energy to their artwork. Participating authors will have devoted dozens of hours to writing and refining their stories by the posting deadline. Artists need to be willing to do the same. Don't just slap some pictures together and call it a wallpaper, or throw a few clips together haphazardly and call it a video. Please put some actual time and thought into what you're creating.

We understand that vids can take a lot of time and effort to put together, and we totally understand that a month is not the biggest chunk of time ever. even still, we ask that you create more than just a basic trailer for the story. Let's go with 1 minute as a bare minimum, and try to aim for more.

Once you've created a substantial piece of art, you can go as crazy as you want to creating more. Icons, friends-only banners, fanmix covers (and track listings) -- whatever you can think up!

When requesting the fandoms/creators that you'd like to work with, please note that these sign-ups are available on both Dreamwidth and LiveJournal. We will follow the timestamps and match you up on a first come, first served basis. We will reply to your sign-up comment to verify who you've been matched with. At that point, please contact your creator with the email address listed below.


Complement sign-up form:

comment subject line: [journal name] - artist sign-up

- journal name: the name of the journal you will be joining the community with
- email address: where you can be easily reached. @lj.com is not good enough
- do you agree to create at least one substantial piece of art for your assigned story: yes
- list your top 3 fandom choices, in order of preference: from the list below
- type of fanart you'll create: wallpaper, book cover, collage, video, something else [please verify with the mods on anything else first]
- would you be willing to create for a second story: yes, no or maybe

<b>journal name:</b> <b>email address:</b> <b>do you agree to create at least one substantial piece of art for your chosen story:</b> <b>list your top 3 fandom choices from the list, in order of preference:</b> <b>type of fanart you'll create:</b> <b>would you be willing to create for more than one story:</b>

list of fandoms being written

( 11 projects for you to choose from )

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.

Okay, fellow thelittlebangers, the cheerleading assignments have been completed. The seven people who signed up as cheerleaders have been sent their assignments, but I'm also going to list the information here, so y'all can see how it worked out.

If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment or send a PM.

Cheerleaders	Cheerlead-ees
cleo2584	oparu
havocthecat	overlithe lyssie
tamsinwillougby	glovered hibernate
oparu	birgitriddle miss_prince morganize
fadeoutin	lazy_daze findmyantidrug stripedheartx
damkianna	quaedam dagas_isa hunters_retreat rainyrocket
ariestess	thatyourefuse twtd bellaedward2223 falcon_horus palpable_notion green_bird_ calleigh_j yoursecretsoul

Okay, fellow TLBers, we are halfway through Week 9 of the initial creation phase. How is everyone doing?

Feel free to sound off with any squees or complaints you're having with your projects. And if you need to drop out, leave a message on the DW or LJ posts.

For myself, I'm in the process of changing my fandom/pairing for my project. The more I've been thinking about it, the more I need that original idea I had to stay original, rather than fannish. It just works better with the paranormal/supernatural aspect of it to be original characters. Or maybe it's just that Addison Montgomery just REFUSES to work with me on how to get it going using her. I swear, some of my muses are complete PIMAs! LOL! So I'm scavenging through my various story/plot ideas to see what will be more feasible to complying with the "let's get you written" mood I'm in.

Also, I wanted to note that, as of right now, we have 35 people signed up with initial creative phase projects and only 8 people willing to cheerlead or beta. This poses some logistical issues, and the mods will be doing a final decision on what we'll do for this situation. I know that I personally can play cheerleader to a great number of people, but I'm not sure I can handle the vast majority of creators in this project. LOL! Again, we should hopefully have a decision re: cheerleaders in particular by next week.

And now back to wrestling my femslash11 assignments into submission.

First things first... I'd like to say that the weekly mod posts that were originally going to alternate between your mods are being cut back some, due to RL health and surgery issues for havocthecat. thelittlebang is still going strong, she just might not have as visible a presence as initially planned for the next while.

This also means that the beta/cheerleader match-ups may take a little longer than initially planned. We are hoping to have that completed before the end of the month for all of you.

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In other news, we're 1/3 of the way through the initial creative phase, and it's time for a word count check. To go with the three months of creation idea, that' means everyone should be somewhere around 5k words completed at this point. If you're more than that, more power to ya! If you're less than that, it's not the end of the world.

I will freely admit that I haven't even started mine yet.

So, how's everyone doing on their projects? Are your muses cooperating? Getting a lot of words written? Hit a brick wall on the creativity front?

And for the check-in itself, I'm going to borrow a template from sentinelbigbang, because it works out really nicely, and turn it into a textarea box for you to c/p. You don't have to use the template if you don't want to. Feel free to modify as needed.

<b>Name:</b> <b>Your project:</b> <b>Current progress/word count:</b> <b>What I like about the project:</b> <b>What I don't like about the project:</b> <b>Anything else you want to say (e.g. Do you need any help? Lacking inspiration or need a sounding board? Want to rant a little?):</b>

Feel free to share some details about your project, maybe a summary or some hints, but please don't post actual extracts. We may have a post for that sort of thing later on down the line.