How to Turn In Your Rough Draft

[chosenfire28.livejournal.com]

Rough drafts are due June 3rd! (If you are in need of an extension please PM me or leave a comment to this post). Here are the instructions on how to turn in your roug hdraft.

As long as it's the 3rd somewhere your draft will be accepted, so please don't worry about timezones. If you think you'll get it in a day or two late send us an email letting us know to expect your fic.

Ideally your rough draft needs to be more than 15,000 words and completed, however since these are rough drafts at least turn in 10,000 words with more than 80% of the fic done. I've accepted less in the past rounds and will only do so again if the author is ABSOLUTELY sure they will finish the story and they can given the artist enough to work with.

Please follow the instructions below when turning in your rough draft.

Email to:
crossbigbang@gmail.com

Subject line of email:
Rough Draft – Title – Crossover - LJ Username

Body:

LJ Username: Current Word Count: Percent Complete: <b>Title:</b> <b>Crossover:</b> <b>Type:</b> (slash, gen, het – put in all that apply) <b>Rating:</b> <b>Characters/Pairings:</b> <b>Warnings</b> (sexual context, non-con, violence, strong language, characters death, etc – if there is anything in your fic potential artists should be warned about include it) <b>Summary:</b> (try to write more than one paragraph, please no more than 3 paragraphs)

PLEASE KEEP THE CODING IN YOUR EMAIL!, we copy and paste this part into the claims and its really a pain to have to redo all the coding. The only things that will be taken out is the LJ username, percent complete, and current word count.

Pay special attention to the summary because that is what artists will be using to claim a story so make sure to spell-check it and be aware of the length (a sentence or two won't be enough for an artist to make a claim but claims are first come first served and an artist might overlook a huge block of text)

Then add your fic as an attachment, we would prefer it if you had it as an .doc but we can take .docx and .rtf


Any questions about submitting your rough draft comment with them to this post and we will help you all we can.

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

I will have an 80% complete rough draft ready for 3rd June, but think I may need a bit longer than the 21st July deadline to complete it.

ETA, *slightly* late, but has been submitted.

[disturbinglynic.livejournal.com]

Hm. I definitely can't get it in by the third, but I'm still working on it. Claims go up on the 8th, correct? Can I shoot for the 7th? I'm gonna try really hard :)

[disturbinglynic.livejournal.com]

Or I can get to about halfway through with my fic and realize that EVERYTHING is wrong. *sigh* I would need at least another week or so to fix this so I'm going to have to drop.

[sunryder.livejournal.com]

My story has turned into an epic that will definitely not be done today. I don't want to be worrying about getting done while I'm working on papers for class, so I'm going to have to withdraw.

[liliaeth]

My co-writer and I aren't finished yet, though we don't think it ought to be more than three a four chapters. (there's an outline, now if only we manage to follow it*eg*)

But we're already over 30k, is that ok for a first draft?
Just waiting for her to come online and help me with the summary before sending in what we've got as the rough draft.

[cghardy.livejournal.com]

I'm going to send both in the same email, if that's okay?

Also, which rating system?