Current possible schedule?

[vangirl]

Here's a current possible schedule, adjusted to avoid overlap with some of the popular summer writing stuff. This is not yet set in stone. Let me know if this will or will not work for you. I'll try and adjust the schedule so the most people can participate.

April 1st - June 3rd: Writer sign-ups will be open. This should give you two whole months to work, plus a few days just in case.

June 3rd: Rough draft and summaries will be due by 11:59PM in whichever-timezone-the-sun-sets-on-last time. Effectively, the due date will probably be "Whenever vangirl wakes up the next day," but it'll be best if you assume that I'm an insomniac.

June 4th: Once all the rough drafts are in, a post of story summaries will be put up, with comments disabled. Those summaries will be up for about 24~ hours (unless 48 hours is better? thoughts?) so media creators will have the time to look at them and decide which one they want to do.

June 5th (or 6th?): Comments to summary post will be opened and media creators/beta readers will duel to the death comment with what they want. It'll be a bloody, gruesome battle first-come, first-serve type of thing.

July 3rd - 17th: Big Bangs should be betaed, artwork/FSTs/crocheted blankets should be completed and they all will be posted within this timeframe. The official due-date is on the 3rd, but if you need extra time for whatever reason then you have until the 17th.

July 18th: It's celebration time, come on!

Approval? Objections?

ALTERNATIVELY, solaris came up with awesome idea. At sign-ups, writers will post a summary of what they want to write for the challenge and potential media creators/betas/cheerleaders will contact the writer then and work together.

If people like this idea I can have a separate, optional post post where writers who wish to go that route can post their working ideas out in the open. Media creators who decide a writer to work with then will also be claiming the fic ahead of time. The summary posts will then work more like a pitch-hit post, where media creators will duel to the death try their luck at working on fics that didn't find a media creator in the sign-up process (or fics where the media creator suddenly abandoned them to go work on another fic that takes place in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel).

Yay or nay to this idea?

Comments

[shanaqui]

Looks good to me! Will cover some of my exam/essay period, but I pulled off that last year with four Big Bangs going, and I'm being much more selective this year...

[mako_lies]

This looks do-able!

[cypher]

I like this!

I suspect you'd get some complaints about the second idea from people who didn't already know anyone with a complementary skill set; it's possible it could leave some people stranded. I'm not sure.

On the other hand, having an artist already involved earlier in the writing process *does* sound cool. :x

[lassarina]

I'm totally up for posting sketches of what I plan to write on for potential creators/betas/cheerleaders to look through--I love that idea.

[jack_of_none]

Looks fantastic, and none of it overlaps GenCon this year (which is the only solid thing about my schedule for this year, lolnerd). I also like the idea of the open post at the beginning of the challenge...more collaboration sounds awesome.

Also if there's going to be a bloody battle, I think writers should choose the venue and the artists should choose the weapon. Also, maybe it should be to first blood, because my fandoms are all kind of small and I don't want to lose anybody.

[gb]

I still don't know if I will participate in this but I am considering it and this looks OK!

What I would suggest is that if you decide to go with allowing authors to put up summaries early, make it opt-in, so authors who don't have a summary ready or want to work more autonomously can be matched up with media creators later. Also, I think 24 hours might not be enough time to leave summaries up, just because it's all too easy (for me at least) to forget to check a website or write a reply on a particular day ^^; Maybe three days? I'm not sure!

[gb]

The other thing about letting people choose to post summaries earlier (to collaborate more with media creators) or rough drafts later (like with the last round) is that if they can't find media creators earlier, it won't leave them locked out like cypher mentioned.

I don't think it'd be that much more effort to organise? Since media creators will be choosing authors themselves for those who've posted summaries early, and you'd only have to match them up yourself for the second lot... just throwing ideas around, here.

[vangirl]

What I would suggest is that if you decide to go with allowing authors to put up summaries early, make it opt-in, so authors who don't have a summary ready or want to work more autonomously can be matched up with media creators later.

Don't worry, it'll be optional. :)

Also, I think 24 hours might not be enough time to leave summaries up, just because it's all too easy (for me at least) to forget to check a website or write a reply on a particular day ^^; Maybe three days? I'm not sure!

This is a good point! It'll be over a weekend so leaving it up for the entire weekend might be best? :>

[ukefied]

AWWW YEAH

[stealth_noodle]

I like this early summary-posting idea a lot! I have no idea if I'll be free during the timeframe this year, but here's hoping.

[ryuosen]

Pity, with this timetable I wont be able to write anything...

I'll just do art again.
Last year was real fun and for art the schedule is perfect!^^

[tyger]

.o/ Hardmode~! I go out to the country for a while and then it's ALL HAPPENING! *laughs* But, yes. Am so in - assuming thesis doesn't eat my brain too much, but it's only 10K, so it should be all right! >: Now I just need to come up with a story. ¬¬;;;

Working more with artists/etc sounds really cool, too! :D

[electric_butterfly]

I like it just fine! Now to figure out WHAT to write. I have time though.

[solaris]

you spelled my name wrong :(

I don't have a problem with the timeline this year, and I'm up for doing things the old way or the new way. So excited about doing this!

[nan]

This sounds great to me. :D

[kunenk]

Exciting! \o/ I'm not sure how July is going to pan out for me at the moment, but I reckon it should be okay.

I am thinking about a pretty small fandom, though? I'm not sure how many people know it and how that might work out.