Big Bang, Baby

Hi, all!

The Big Bang mods are posting our milestone 30k Banner for use for all of you lovely participating authors who've hit the all-important 35,000-word mark on our milestone date of February 22nd! Here you go, kids - Congratulations to all of you who made it this far!



Thanks so much to Big Bang artist red_rahl for our lovely artwork. Feel free to display this on your own website, LJ, or on your wall for instant encouragement!

We also want to remind all of you writers that the 40k milestone is just around the corner on 3/19. It's not necessary to have gotten that many words written in order to participate in the big bang, but it's a good idea to track your progress and the banners are our way of encouraging you on your journey.

Which leads me to our next topic: Author check-in! As a quick heads up, we'd like to know how many of you are participating and our on schedule to finish by next month's deadline (April 15th!!!!!!).

If you are still planning on submitting your fic to the challenge, please pop in over here on the official Big Bang forum and let us know! If you haven't had a chance to register and see our new community home, this is a great opportunity to do so as well.


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Finally, to all of our past participating artists: We would love to have each and every one of you join us again! We've been able to contact most of you, and hopefully you've all heard from us by now. If you haven't, be assured this is NOT because we don't love you, but because we might have outdated contact info for you.

What you need to do is register at the forums above. Once you've done that, we'll give you access to our artists forum. You then need to check in on our artists' confirmation thread! We need you guys to do this so we can have a head count of our final number of participating artists.


We hope you'll all join us there at the new Big Bang forums. They're friendly and fun and there's always something going on. Most importantly for BBB readers - the forums are where to go to find out about new updates. So head on over, look around, feel free to ask questions.

To all of you participating authors: Good luck!!!!

Hello all!
The moderators of big_bang_hd have been getting questions about some things pertaining to the website, and since we never actually put out an APB on this, let me do so now:

The Big Bang Challenge website has moved. The new website is here. Please update your links to http://bigbang.inkubation.net if you have not already done so. The splash page will link you to both Big Bang challenges - Original and Endgame.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that after the dust has settled from HP7, there will most likely be a Big Bang 3. Because Shaggy and Reena and I - we're nutters.

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Hmmmm. Just checking in, because it appears to be my day for it.

How are we doing, eager big_bang_hd participants? I know a bunch of you are writing at different paces, some of you have just started, some of you are panicking because you aren't far enough along...

Mind if I ask you how you're coming? Are the deadlines posing a problem for people? Are there any of you who are frustrated by any part of the writing process? How many of you have sort-of unofficially quit already? How many of you are still holding back, afraid to really begin?

The deadline is currently set in stone, but that doesn't mean that we want to torture you into turning in a project you're not proud of. What can we as mods, what can you as writers, do to help you/each other out?

Chat us up. We're all here to listen.

Hello, everyone! Firstly, I just want to say how excited I am to see so many people excited about the second run of the Big Bang. It's thrilling to be an H/D fan after book 6, isn't it?

We have received a number of requests from some very talented artists who are interested in drawing for our fics. This is the part where I say that there are an absolutely staggering number of fabulous artists in the Harry Potter fandom. Your 3 mods spent literally hours agonizing over the fact that we wanted to invite basically the entire artistic fandom. At some point we realised that inviting anymore artists would mean a challenge far too huge and weighty for us to handle. It's just too many people.

If we didn't invite you it is not because we didn't like your art. (Trust me. Us/Fanart=OTP.) But because of the size of the project, we are denying requests to join the community; we simply cannot handle more art than our current 26 artists will produce.

However: this does not mean that you cannot still participate.

When the site is launched on Feb. 14, we will make a master post for each submitted fic, allowing fans to review the fics and post any fanart. So keep watching the community and have your pens out on Valentine's Day!

As always, don't hesitate to use this post for suggestions/questions/comments.