Clarifications:

1) Rough drafts must be at least 15 000 words. If you only have 10 000 words, or you have had a ridiculous second half of 2009 and are confident you can make up the remainder by January/February, e-mail us re: extensions. (We are inclined to err on the side of forgiveness, given how much Lynn needs it!)

2) Rough drafts are rough i.e. they can be incomplete, disjointed, have missing beginnings, ends and middles. We are not asking to see anything that is remotely polished. XD

3) Because we've been having trouble co-ordinating drive.a Gmail accounts, we are asking that all rough drafts be submitted to sulynncheah at gmail dot com, and cc'ed to lindra at gmail dot com. Any format is okay.

4) Due date is 30th November 2009.

5) Any questions should be directed to sulynncheah at gmail and cc'ed to lindra at gmail. You may also leave a comment on this post.


Good luck writing! We're really looking forward to seeing what people come up with. :D :D :D

Hi,

Just dropping note to say that if you haven't received an e-mail from me by now, your e-mail is very possibly recorded incorrectly in our records (On the other hand, Gmail could just be out to get me again.). If so, we'd really appreciate it if you dropped us a comment here to update your contact details!

Cheers,
A Very Frazzled Lynn

...hai, just to let you know that there'll be a Drive A Big Bang chat hosted on AIM (open to fandom-at-large, as all our peripheral activities are) next week, starting Saturday 3rd of October evening in Australian/New Zealand time zones (i.e early Saturday morning for the other side of the world). We're aiming to have the chat last approximately twenty-four hours so as to cover as many time zones as possible, but this may depend on mod availability.

The probable chat mods will be myself, lindra, shiorikazen, and jetsam.

We'll make an announcement with chatroom details when the time comes. Feel free to leave questions at this post!

Some clarification regarding teams:


1) You don't have to join a team straight away. If you are a writer you can simply start writing your 20K fic, traditional big bang style, and then submit a rough draft to us by November 14, which is when we'll run a final round of team allocations and make sure that everyone is in a team. Of some sort.

2) If you are the sort of writer who is physically not likely to produce 15K by Nov 14, consider forming a team early on with another writer so that each of you can simply do half the writing each! (Remember that a single team is required to produce 20K of fic and 3 pieces of art; there's no restrictions on how many writers or artists you wish to have on that team.)

3) If you have beta readers and/or artists that you normally work with, by all means rope them in to work with you. Just remember that they too have to submit an official sign-up form to us in order to be listed as a Big Bang participant.

4) If you're an artist and you'd much rather simply produce three illustrations for a fic that has already been drafted, you can also wait until November for the final team allocations in order to be assigned to a team. However, if there is a writer you are particularly keen to work with, you may be better off forming a team with them early on in the sign-up period.

5) As said in the rules post, if you are an artist who would like to find writers to fanfic your fanart, it is also necessary to form a team early on because writing 20K of fic can take a fair bit of time and it is very unlikely that you will be able to find writers if you start looking in November.


( list of teams and members, plus sign-up forms )

Not interested in writing/drawing/beta reading? Already participating as a writer/artist/beta but interested in doing something more? This is drive_a's official call for volunteers.

At the moment we're looking for volunteers particularly in the following areas:


canon scouts: In the near-future we'll be opening a post for participants to pose questions regarding canon (and erm, canon-related issues). What does Kaidou's room look like? What is Saeki's favourite food? What colour are the Rikkai uniforms really? If anyone would like to volunteer to hunt down these tantalising facts, please by all means sign-up!

layouts, banners, and icons: your current friendly mods are erm, to say the least, extremely Photoshop-challenged. If anyone would like to offer their mad S2 and iconing skills in the service of the official big bang, we would love you very very much.

dreamwidth invite codes: as we will be using DW as the main host of this challenge, we'd like to be able to offer invite codes to anyone who is in need of them. If you still have lots of codes to spare, we would welcome it if you offer them.

chats: at some point we'll be organising official big bang chats in a variety of the time zones and instant messenging services (e.g. AIM, Windows Live, Gtalk). anyone who is willing to help host a chat of any duration, in any instant messenging service, is much appreciated!


If you would like to help out in a general way and aren't interested in any of the above, still please feel free to leave a comment here, as it is likely that we may be more in need of admin-type help later on in the challenge.


To sign-up as a volunteer, leave a comment on this entry with the following information:

Preferred name:
LJ/DW username(s):
E-mail address:
What you would like to help out with: