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dcu_bang2018-08-15 05:15 pm
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Rough Draft Submission Guidelines
Hello! I hope everyone is doing well, and your writing and creating is coming along! These are the rough draft submission guidelines, don't worry, the due date isn't until August 21st. I just wanted to get the rough draft submission guidelines out about a week early, so that everyone had time to write a summary and submit their rough draft!
Rough draft submission is only for the Traditional Author track. If you have chosen Solo Author or Tandem Author, you do not need to submit a rough draft! This is only for the authors wishing to be paired with a fanworker, and are not already working with a fanworker. =D
I am only looking for rough drafts, so it is okay if your story is still very rough at this point. I'm just checking for length and completion, which means your story does not need to be completely finished or polished, but around 80% of it needs to be done. This means that an author signed up for the 10k Traditional Bang must submit at least 8,000 words, and a 5k Mini-Bang author must submit at least 4,000 words. However, if your story is going to be about 20,000 words long, 16,000 words would be 80% complete. This is just a rough estimate. If you're not sure how long your story is going to end up, that's okay! Do your best to estimate the total length and, more importantly, gauge whether you will be able to finish or not.
If you are submitting an incomplete draft, please be aware that it needs to have all the scenes at least outlined, including the ending, so that I know you are truly close to finishing!
Please read this carefully, as this is about the consequences of not being able to finish on time.
Any author who is paired with a fanworker and does not end up posting their story by the end of November will be banned from participation for DCU Bang 2019. This is so that artists are not left hanging! There is no penalty for dropping out before rough draft submissions, nor is there a penalty for switching to Solo Author and being unable to finish. Once you are paired with an artist, please make sure that you can finish, as it is unfair to the artist if you cannot finish. (This works the other way too! It's not fair to an author if the artist cannot finish!)
If you are worried you cannot finish, or do not already have around 80% complete, but still want to continue writing, consider switching to the Solo Author track! This way, even if you don't complete your story by the end of November, there are no consequences. =D The perks of staying in the DCU Bang as a Solo Author are your story is posted in the DCU Bang LJ/DW communities, shared in the DCU Bang Ao3 Collection, and you can have your Tumblr post reblogged by the DCU Bang account! Solo authors still need to have their fic meet to the 5k/10k minimum requirement, and have their story beta-read.
A note on beta-reading: You can choose the level of beta-reading you want, from hardcore story critiquing, to just a second pair of eyes for catching spelling and grammar errors. If you do not want to have your story heavily beta-read, this is fine! But please do get a second person to read through and help catch the spelling and grammar errors.
How to Submit Your Rough Draft:
Email your fic to dcubang@gmail.com
The subject line should say: Username ROUGH DRAFT - and include the username you used to sign up!
I can accept the following file types: .doc, .docx, .rtf, and Google Docs. If submitting a Google Doc, share with dcubang@gmail.com with editing capabilities, otherwise I cannot verify the word count. If none of these file types work for you, contact me ASAP at Page-A-Mod, or send me an email at dcubang@gmail.com! Do not send a different file type without first contacting me!
In the body of the email, copy and paste the information below and fill it out, keeping the html tags. This is so I can quickly post summaries without having to format everyone's submission! Also, if submitting via Google Docs, you still have to email me with the following information filled out.
Take your time with your summary! This is what artists are going to use to make a determination in their claims. Make sure to give enough information for potential artists to make decisions, but don't write so much that it is overwhelming. Here's a helpful post for writing artist summaries! Also keep in mind that this is a summary for attracting an artist, so the information you give might be very different from what you would want to give to a potential reader. The artist summary does not need to be the same one you use for your story later on!
Make sure to be clear and thorough about trigger warnings so that artists will know what they are signing up for! You must put any and all warnings in this version of your summary, even if you decide to use an "author chooses not to warn" label later. Artists need to know what they are signing up for, after all, and we don't want artists, nor authors, unhappy with the match. Please warn for: noncon, dubcon, excessive or graphic violence, underage sex, incest, character death, and anything else that might be potentially problematic for a reader! Do not warn for slash, femslash, or het.
Once I receive your submission, I will be sending a confirmation email in return. If you do not get a confirmation email within 24 hours, please get in contact with me at either the DCU Discord server, emailing me at dcubang@gmail.com, or using the Page-A-Mod post! If you have any other concerns or questions, please be sure to get in contact with me through any of those means as well!
The deadline to submit a rough draft is 23:59 MDT, August 21st!
Cross-Posted on LiveJournal
Rough draft submission is only for the Traditional Author track. If you have chosen Solo Author or Tandem Author, you do not need to submit a rough draft! This is only for the authors wishing to be paired with a fanworker, and are not already working with a fanworker. =D
I am only looking for rough drafts, so it is okay if your story is still very rough at this point. I'm just checking for length and completion, which means your story does not need to be completely finished or polished, but around 80% of it needs to be done. This means that an author signed up for the 10k Traditional Bang must submit at least 8,000 words, and a 5k Mini-Bang author must submit at least 4,000 words. However, if your story is going to be about 20,000 words long, 16,000 words would be 80% complete. This is just a rough estimate. If you're not sure how long your story is going to end up, that's okay! Do your best to estimate the total length and, more importantly, gauge whether you will be able to finish or not.
If you are submitting an incomplete draft, please be aware that it needs to have all the scenes at least outlined, including the ending, so that I know you are truly close to finishing!
Please read this carefully, as this is about the consequences of not being able to finish on time.
Any author who is paired with a fanworker and does not end up posting their story by the end of November will be banned from participation for DCU Bang 2019. This is so that artists are not left hanging! There is no penalty for dropping out before rough draft submissions, nor is there a penalty for switching to Solo Author and being unable to finish. Once you are paired with an artist, please make sure that you can finish, as it is unfair to the artist if you cannot finish. (This works the other way too! It's not fair to an author if the artist cannot finish!)
If you are worried you cannot finish, or do not already have around 80% complete, but still want to continue writing, consider switching to the Solo Author track! This way, even if you don't complete your story by the end of November, there are no consequences. =D The perks of staying in the DCU Bang as a Solo Author are your story is posted in the DCU Bang LJ/DW communities, shared in the DCU Bang Ao3 Collection, and you can have your Tumblr post reblogged by the DCU Bang account! Solo authors still need to have their fic meet to the 5k/10k minimum requirement, and have their story beta-read.
A note on beta-reading: You can choose the level of beta-reading you want, from hardcore story critiquing, to just a second pair of eyes for catching spelling and grammar errors. If you do not want to have your story heavily beta-read, this is fine! But please do get a second person to read through and help catch the spelling and grammar errors.
Once I receive your submission, I will be sending a confirmation email in return. If you do not get a confirmation email within 24 hours, please get in contact with me at either the DCU Discord server, emailing me at dcubang@gmail.com, or using the Page-A-Mod post! If you have any other concerns or questions, please be sure to get in contact with me through any of those means as well!
The deadline to submit a rough draft is 23:59 MDT, August 21st!
Cross-Posted on LiveJournal