Pokémon Big Bang 2012 Posting Schedule
Aug. 16th, 2012 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pokemodFirst, we just want to announce for everyone's sanity, posting has been moved back again to August 20th. That way, if anyone needs more time to finish wrapping up the final details, you can have a few more days—and the weekend—to get thing in order. Posting will happen over August 20th to August 25th this year.
Second, your posting assignment has been sent to you. If you did not receive your posting assignment, it is posted under the cut. (But please let us know if you didn't get it, and I'll check what happened.)
( Pokémon Big Bang Round 2 Posting Schedule )
If you cannot post on the date you were assigned due to extenuating circumstances, please email us as soon as possible! If you have signed up, sent us a master list, and don't see your name on the posting schedule, please let me know right away so I can work you into the schedule. We are still waiting to hear back from a number of participants who are MIA.
When the fics go up, please be sure to show the writers, artists, and betas plenty of love for their hard work and dedication by reading and reviewing their fics. Thank you playing, and happy Pokémon Big Bang 2012!
ETA 8/20/2012 Thanks torosejailmaiden for reminding me -- please comment here or PM me if you are posting but don't have posting access right now because you're not a member of the comm. If you were a member of the comm before this and are posting this round, I've already granted you posting access.
Second, your posting assignment has been sent to you. If you did not receive your posting assignment, it is posted under the cut. (But please let us know if you didn't get it, and I'll check what happened.)
( Pokémon Big Bang Round 2 Posting Schedule )
If you cannot post on the date you were assigned due to extenuating circumstances, please email us as soon as possible! If you have signed up, sent us a master list, and don't see your name on the posting schedule, please let me know right away so I can work you into the schedule. We are still waiting to hear back from a number of participants who are MIA.
When the fics go up, please be sure to show the writers, artists, and betas plenty of love for their hard work and dedication by reading and reviewing their fics. Thank you playing, and happy Pokémon Big Bang 2012!
ETA 8/20/2012 Thanks to
rosejailmaiden for reminding me -- please comment here or PM me if you are posting but don't have posting access right now because you're not a member of the comm. If you were a member of the comm before this and are posting this round, I've already granted you posting access.Re: Masterlists
Aug. 8th, 2012 12:02 ampokemodOmg are y'all serious, do we really have only six teams left in the big bang at this point? ALL ARTISTS AND WRITERS, PLEASE POST IN THE MANDATORY FINAL CHECK-IN if you haven't already, thank you!!!
ETA:
BIG NEWS READ THIS!
WE ARE PUSHING BACK THE POSTING DATE.
TEAMS WILL BEGIN POSTING ON AUGUST 17.
MASTERLISTS ARE STILL DUE ON AUGUST 9TH (see below).
This means that you have until at least August 17 to finish your pieces. GO GO GO.
TO SUBMIT YOUR MASTERLIST:
1) Fill out this form:
If you don't have something (like an artist or a beta-reader), then delete the entire line.
You can link it to whatever you'd like -- another master list posted on your own LJ, FFN, AO3, we don't care. But be sure to include the coding that links to your stuff like this:
<a href="LINK URL HERE">part 1</a> | <a href="LINK URL HERE">part 2</a> | <a href="LINK URL HERE">art post</a> etc etc but make sure to include it!
2) Email it to pokeprompts@gmail.com with the title Pokemon Big Bang Masterlist. No, don't post to your LJ. The point is for us to check your coding. You have until 11:59PM EST, August 9th, 2012 to send it to us. If you get it to us after that, then it's disqualified from this round.
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR FIC UNTIL YOUR POSTING DATE. YOUR FIC SHOULD NOT BE UP PUBLICLY ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET UNTIL THE DATE YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO POST IT. Posting dates will be handed out soon.
Any questions?
BIG NEWS READ THIS!
WE ARE PUSHING BACK THE POSTING DATE.
TEAMS WILL BEGIN POSTING ON AUGUST 17.
MASTERLISTS ARE STILL DUE ON AUGUST 9TH (see below).
This means that you have until at least August 17 to finish your pieces. GO GO GO.
TO SUBMIT YOUR MASTERLIST:
1) Fill out this form:
If you don't have something (like an artist or a beta-reader), then delete the entire line.
You can link it to whatever you'd like -- another master list posted on your own LJ, FFN, AO3, we don't care. But be sure to include the coding that links to your stuff like this:
2) Email it to pokeprompts@gmail.com with the title Pokemon Big Bang Masterlist. No, don't post to your LJ. The point is for us to check your coding. You have until 11:59PM EST, August 9th, 2012 to send it to us. If you get it to us after that, then it's disqualified from this round.
PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR FIC UNTIL YOUR POSTING DATE. YOUR FIC SHOULD NOT BE UP PUBLICLY ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET UNTIL THE DATE YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO POST IT. Posting dates will be handed out soon.
Any questions?
deadline reminder + match-up information
May. 28th, 2012 02:11 ampokemodJust a reminder, artist and beta-reader sign-ups for this round of Pokémon Big Bang close on June 1st at 11:59PM EST (-4UTC). So get your friends signed-up if you want them to play too!
Also, here's some information about writer + artist/beta-reader match-ups.
Hope that wasn't too confusing. Let me know if you have any questions! Happy writing and we look forward to seeing what y'all have up your sleeves so far.
Also, here's some information about writer + artist/beta-reader match-ups.
- Two rounds of match-ups will be held. The first round will be held on June 2nd. The second will be held on June 17th/18th, with the pinch-hit posts.
- Everyone who wants to participate in either round of match-ups must have a word count of at least 1,000 words so far on their story. Once you have been matched with an artist or beta-reader, you are no longer allowed to drop out of the big bang (barring extenuating circumstances). Since the story only needs to be a minimum of 10,000 words, a word count of 1,000 (or 10%) ensures your commitment to actually finishing the story.
- If you already have an artist or beta-reader in your group, for round 1, you can only recruit what you're missing. That is, if you have an artist, in this round, you can only ask for a beta-reader. If you'd prefer having two artists or two beta readers, you must wait for round 2 of claims. Remember, you may have a maximum of four people in your group, including yourself.
- To be included for round 1 of match-ups, please email pokeprompts@gmail.com with the following information by June 1st at 11:59AM EST**:
Subject line of email:
Round 1 Match-up – Username
**Please note the AM. This is 12 hours before sign-ups close - A post with all of the stories submitted for round one of match-ups will be posted on June 1st at 1:00PM EST, so that all beta-readers and artists may see what is up. This post will have locked comments for 24 hours until June 2st at 1:00PM EST, in which claiming will be first-come-first-serve. Once an story is claimed by an artist or beta-reader for this round, it cannot receive another claim by that category for this round.
- Round two will occur in a similar fashion, with more details to come, except: for the first 24 hours of the round two claims, any artist or beta-reader who is already a part of one group may not not claim another story. Only after the first 24 hours can they claim another, if they feel like they can handle the work.
- For round two, any writers who wants to fill their four-member quota completely, who didn't receive a claim in the first round, whose group had members drop out, who didn't submit in time for round 1, or who didn't meet the word count then may submit by June 16th at 11:59AM EST** to be put up initially in the claims. After the 24 grace period in which artists and beta-readers who didn't claim in the first round get their picks, other writers can comment to be added to the pinch-hit post until July 6th.
Hope that wasn't too confusing. Let me know if you have any questions! Happy writing and we look forward to seeing what y'all have up your sleeves so far.
Deadline / Big Bang Starts Tomorrow!
May. 1st, 2012 06:38 ampokemod- Today is the last day for writers to sign up for the Big Bang. The post will close at 11:59AM EST today, so please sign up while you still can!
- This would also be a fantastic time to reblog and/or re-advertise the big bang so that we can pick up any stragglers. Thank you so much!
- The Big Bang starts on May 3, in two days! A few notes:
• The Prompt Post is always open (24 hours, 365 days a year) to your ideas and for claims—please make use of it!
• Please make sure you have the Calendar of Events noted down somewhere—in your phone, in your (google) calendar, on your wall, etc. etc. These dates are important!
We have fourteen writers currently signed up, so we're off to a great start. Best of luck to all of you!
Writer Sign-Up Deadline Warning!
Apr. 20th, 2012 10:08 ampokemodJust a note that writers have 11 days left to sign up. Writers, your sign-ups end on May 1, so join now!
Artists and Beta-readers still have a little over a month (until June 1) to sign up.
We would also really appreciate it if you could help us advertise the big bang as well!
Artists and Beta-readers still have a little over a month (until June 1) to sign up.
We would also really appreciate it if you could help us advertise the big bang as well!
Starting in 3, 2, 1...
Mar. 29th, 2012 11:20 ampokemodAs you may already know, ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
pokemon_bigbang is opening for sign-ups in about three days (April 1, 2012)! While you're all getting ready and preparing ready-made teams of your friends where applicable, here are some things you should know about this round:
Let's make this year a good one!
pokemon_bigbang is opening for sign-ups in about three days (April 1, 2012)! While you're all getting ready and preparing ready-made teams of your friends where applicable, here are some things you should know about this round:- Sign-up dates have changed. Writers have from April 1-May 1 to sign up, but now both Beta-readers and Artists have from April 1-June 1 (two months).
- The Big Bang officially begins on May 1, 2012 and ends on August 9, 2012. For the Calendar of Events, click here.
- Team dynamics have changed. Teams may consist of up to four people, same as last time, but now two writers can work together as well. So a team can have two writers, an artist, and a beta; one writer, two artists, and a beta; or any smaller variations of those groups.
- For two-writer teams, the word minimum jumps from 10,000 words to 15,000 words, just to keep things challenging. :)
- Artist minimum requirements have changed. Instead of having no guidelines, artists are now required to create either three "full" pieces or six "light" pieces. For more information, click here.
- Please (re)read the general information/rules and FAQ pages, as there may be more small changes we've forgotten to mention here.
- A reminder that our PROMPT POST is always open for new ideas!
- Please help us advertise! We are especially desperate for more artists this year, so if you can help us advertise to other artists, we'd really appreciate it!
Let's make this year a good one!
Yep, we've moved
Dec. 26th, 2011 12:26 pmpokemodHello, welcome, and thank you for joining Pokémon Big Bang here on Dreamwidth! We're still fixing all the links and tweaking posts here and there, so please forgive any small flubs you might notice.
If you haven't yet joined dw and are just poking around: currently, anyone can make a dreamwidth account until the end of the year. Take advantage of it! And if, at any point in the future, you decide that you'd like a dreamwidth invite code,koyuki and I are in the process of making a wide-scale invite code for everyone to use, as described here.
If you participated in the 2011 round, please feel free to repost your masterlists here! You can copy-and-paste your LJ post into a new post here, if you want. And if you don't want to repost, you don't have to.
As previously advertised, the next round of PokéBB will be starting on April 1, 2012.
A few people said that the minimum wordcount wasn't high enough, so we were toying with the idea of running a mini-bang with the same 10k word count, and then increasing the normal big bang's word count to...something higher. However, there problems with this is that we mods don't have enough time to run two big bangs (one is enough @_@), so we'd have to bring on new mods. How do you guys feel about it? And if we did do this, what do you think the word minimum should be for the normal bang?
If you haven't yet joined dw and are just poking around: currently, anyone can make a dreamwidth account until the end of the year. Take advantage of it! And if, at any point in the future, you decide that you'd like a dreamwidth invite code,
koyuki and I are in the process of making a wide-scale invite code for everyone to use, as described here.If you participated in the 2011 round, please feel free to repost your masterlists here! You can copy-and-paste your LJ post into a new post here, if you want. And if you don't want to repost, you don't have to.
As previously advertised, the next round of PokéBB will be starting on April 1, 2012.
A few people said that the minimum wordcount wasn't high enough, so we were toying with the idea of running a mini-bang with the same 10k word count, and then increasing the normal big bang's word count to...something higher. However, there problems with this is that we mods don't have enough time to run two big bangs (one is enough @_@), so we'd have to bring on new mods. How do you guys feel about it? And if we did do this, what do you think the word minimum should be for the normal bang?
Help us advertise!
Dec. 21st, 2011 07:46 pmpokemodPokémon fandom is huge and we'd like for as many people as possible to participate in the Big Bang. Could you all help us out by advertising? It's difficult for us to extend our advertising beyond DW & LJ, which is where you guys come in.
Tumblr reblog: HERE
Twitter retweet: HERE
Sample dA/text journal ad: HERE
If you have a an account anyplace where artists and writers gather, would you mind pimping us out a little? Feel free to copy/reblog the ads above, if you'd like. If you'd like to pimp this out on your journal or anywhere that accepts HTML coding, you can use our advertisement codes (below).
If you have any questions/comments about advertising, feel free to comment here, but if you have comments/questions about the big bang itself please direct those to the general information post.
Thank you so much!
( Click for advertisements and codes )
Twitter retweet: HERE
Sample dA/text journal ad: HERE
If you have a an account anyplace where artists and writers gather, would you mind pimping us out a little? Feel free to copy/reblog the ads above, if you'd like. If you'd like to pimp this out on your journal or anywhere that accepts HTML coding, you can use our advertisement codes (below).
If you have any questions/comments about advertising, feel free to comment here, but if you have comments/questions about the big bang itself please direct those to the general information post.
Thank you so much!
( Click for advertisements and codes )
