The Big Bang Job - Leverage Big Bang Challenge

The previous polls are now closed, thanks to all of you who filled them out, this time you only have to hit submit the once, I promise :)

Final decisions on word counts and such are as follows:

Both Big Bangs will be run on this community - and at separate times - we'll do our best to make sure it doesn't get confusing.

Normal Big Bang
Word Count: 15,000
Time allowed for writing: 10 weeks (there wasn't a lot in it, and a lot of you picked 'depends on word count' so it's down the middle between 2 and 3 months)
Check in: There will be a check at the half way mark

Reverse Big Bang
Word Count: 10,000
Time allowed to create art: 1 month
Time allowed for writing: 2 months

So, now that all of that has been decided, I give you the all important poll. There are three options for how we're going to run this year, date wise, and this is based on the results of the original poll, and the time allowances that were preferred.

/edit to say that this poll will close next Saturday 30th April


Schedule A
Normal Big Bang: Late May-Early October (May- Signups: June-August: rough draft, August-September: editing and art, September-October:posting)

Reverse Big Bang: Early October-Early March (October: signups, November: art, December-February: Writing, March: posting)

-

Schedule B
Normal Big Bang: Early May-September (May: Signups, May-July: rough draft, August: editing art, September:posting)

Reverse Big Bang: September-January (September: signups, October: art, November- Early January: writing, January: posting)

-

Schedule C
Normal Big Bang: June-October (June: Signups, June-August: rough draft, September: editing and art, October: Posting)

Reverse Big Bang: November-March (November: signups, December: art, January-Early March: writing, March: posting)

-

[Poll #1733183]

-

Comments on this post are screened - so you can all say whatever you want and only mod type people will know what you've said :)

Hopefully the schedule we end up using will work for the vast majority of you.

Don't forget, if you have any issues you can poke a mod, either by leaving a comment here or by email.

Thanks for your time

The Big Bang Job Mods

The masterpost for 2010, can now be found here.

Before I start into Big Bang related business, I wanted to let you all know that tomorrow (16th March) I shall be making a post to the community, which will include links to all of the communities that are currently running auctions to raise money to help Japan - the main reason for that is so that those of you who are offering stuff and drop a comment onto the post, basically it's a chance to get the word out a bit more.


Now, it's time to start really thinking about this year's Big Bang - last year, a number of you said that you would be interested in doing a reverse big bang (art being made first, then used as a prompt for the writing) - which is still a possibility. The question is, whether you would all prefer a Reverse Big Bang this year to a normal Big Bang, or if you want to do both. There is also the question of when you all want this to happen.

So, with that in mind, here is a preliminary poll, mainly aimed at judging interest:

[Poll #1718275]


(EDIT: This poll will be open until 25th March - after which we'll take a look at the results and decide a plan of attack.)

Thanks

The Big Bang Job Mods

(Feel free to spam this post with any comments or questions you have - I shall try to get back to you as quickly as possible :))

It's me again :) - I hope the writing is going well with all of you writers, you're got a little under to weeks before rough drafts are due, and details on how to send them out way will be appearing at some point during the next week.

Now, I have a question for all of our lovely artists - we now have almost as many of you as authors, though we'll see how many authors remain come draft time - I have two questions for you.
Last year each story had art made by two different artists, as we had more artists than stories. This year, it's likely that we will have about same number of both, but some people might still be willing to do art for more than one story. The other question in regard to a request that was made by one of you, for me to email a notification to you all just before claiming begins. With those two things in mind I bring you a poll:

[Poll #1620574]


-

And, as always, any questions just drop one of us mods a message and we'll get back to you :)