Instructions for Writers:
Sign-ups will start today and end on June 24!
1. Read through this carefully and double-check that the writing schedule will work for you.
2. Pick a prompt! You can sign up for a prompt on the upcoming Prompt Sign-Up sheet, or you can come up with your own. (If you choose to come up with your own, please run it by me via Tumblr messenger.) If you are a prolific fic writer, try your best to start a new idea and not work on one of your WIPs. However, if you want this to be a new multi-chapter fic and you want your Big Bang entry to be a finalized Chapter 1 of said fic, that would be totally acceptable. You can always add more chapters to your story after the Big Bang is over!
3. Fill out the upcoming writer sign-up Google poll. It will ask for your email- we will do most of our communication this way, unless you have general questions that can be asked through Tumblr messenger.
4. Start writing! :D Your fic will need to be 3,000 words minimum (feel free to write more- there’s no limit or maximum). You can start writing as soon as you sign up and get your prompt.
5. JULY 16: the first check-in. You’ll share your WIP fic with me via email, just so that I can take a peek and see your progress! You will need to submit a short summary of your fic via email on or before this date, so that artists can get an idea of what your fic is about.
6. The artist for your fic will be assigned to you no later than AUGUST 4. You will share your fic with them so that they can have enough info to illustrate your story. Feel free to chat with your artist all you want, but no peeking! Try to wait until the day of the Big Bang to look at your artist’s work!
7. AUGUST 6: the second check-in. If at this point you have no choice but to back out of the Big Bang, a Nick-of-Time will be given your fic to finish. The word count for a Nick-of-Time will be 1,500 words minimum, because of the lost time they have to make up.
8. If you want another writer to read through and proofread your fic before you publish it, there will be an option to do so.
9. Whenever you finish your fic, it will be posted to Archive of Our Own (Ao3). Please set the date of publication to be the morning of AUGUST 18, the day of the Big Bang, so that the fics can all be published at the same time. I know you’ll want to share your fics with others once you’re done, but it spoils the fun!
10. You’re done! You can sit back and enjoy the flood of new content. Check out your artist’s work and relax!