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[jmtorres]

avengers_bang

Sign-ups are until Jan 1, so I have time to think about this but--

The word count is only 15K, I am pretty damn sure I will hit that with the Assembly Con story (and if I don't, I could start writing Part II: The Wedding? but I'm pretty sure I will, have I mentioned the outline + first scene is 11,000 approximately, jfc), I actually think it would be super awesome to get some art for this story (there's fanart mentioned in it that alas I cannot draw, though I was tempted to gamely try), and if I don't just... write the whole thing in a surprise word vomit in the next month, having a deadline a few months down the line might get me to stick with it.

(Is there any ethical issue about signing up for a big bang with something you've already started writing? Although to be fair, I didn't start writing it until after sign-ups were already open...)

Advice?

ETA: So that's not happening, because grey_bard will be continuing to dork about on the kinkmemes.

Comments

It depends

[jazzypom]

(Is there any ethical issue about signing up for a big bang with something you've already started writing? Although to be fair, I didn't start writing it until after sign-ups were already open

some mods ask for it to be less than 3k, and others don't care. the prevailing census is that the work should not have been 'published' online before. either way you are good.

Re: It depends

[jmtorres]

I have a WIP filter I've posted a scene to, but that's mostly a beta/cheerleader thing. Is not public.

*rubs chin*

That's fine

[jazzypom]

As long as it's not 'public' i.e. -unfiltered and all there to see. I'm tempted to do Avengers, but I've been into the comics for so long, the movie fic makes me pause for a bit (I don't have a DVD, and only have a netbook; so I don't really 'keep' movies on my netbook you know what I mean?).

But with fandom seemingly going that way, I might have to get my finger out and bust a move - or two.

Re: That's fine

[jmtorres]

It doesn't look like this big bang is movieverse specific, if you were considering writing comics fic for it. From the FAQ:

What Avengers reality does this encompass?
All of them. Stories can be written for any Marvel universe as long as the main focus is the Avengers. This includes Marvel 616, Marvel Ultimates, Marvel Movie!Verse etc. etc.

Oh ho?

[jazzypom]

Dude, whhhattt? I've had this Civil War AU (where Tony dies and it's left to Rhodey, Pepper, Steve and some others to deal with the fall out) for forever just waiting on a deadline to get it out of the rut (it's at 15k words for the past year and hasn't gotten any further). OMG.

I could do this. No one might read it, but that's not the point - the point is I can finish with a deadline in mind. I could do this!

Re: Oh ho?

[jmtorres]

INDEED. Deadlines are magical.

Re: Oh ho?

[jazzypom]

*reads and reads*

Damn and I only need a minimum of two Avengers members from any team to make it happen? Oh my goodness.

I have a cap_im exchange to finish and hand in by December 18th, and work will be crazy cakes but I think I can make it work by then.

Re: Oh ho?

[jmtorres]

Did you look at the schedule? SIGN-UPS are until Jan 1 for writers, all the writing deadlines are next year, it's through April.

Yeah, I did do

[jazzypom]

Like you said, I have until Jan 01 to decide. Between now and then, I need to sit down and reaquaint myself with this year old fanfic.

Thanks for the heads up for this, truly.

[jenna_thorn]

I agree with the above - the key is if it has been seen-by-others, in my mind. But then, I'm a slow writer, so using a wip or starting early means I can participate, while being forced to a timetable means I simply cannot, so that probably colors my opinion.

[jmtorres]

I do have a WIP filter, but that's mostly a beta/cheerleader thing--what I have written thus far is not public.

Timetables can do *amazing* things for me. I would say most of my vids would not exist if not for vividcon. And some years it feels like yuletide is all I write.

[venatic]

I know nothing of big bangs, but I will offer fanart if it means fic comes faster....

[jmtorres]

Ha, I don't know if it would or not; I know I can write to deadlines, but I don't know if carrots get me going or not.

[venatic]

...the carrot was mostly for me? I have ridiculous amounts of downtime at work and no inspiration. I adore doing story or story-inspired illustrations, but no one in my flock currently shares fandoms with me, so.

(in other words, I wasn't promising art to make you write more/faster, I was seking inspiration so I could draw more. I think I need to start getting more than 5.5 hrs of sleep a night)

[jmtorres]

I'm waiting for a reply from the big bang mod on whether this fic is actually eligible, because it occurred to me that while the main narrative is only on beta/cheerleader filter, grey_bard and I have been RPing Loki and Darcy on the kinkmeme and posting the fic "they" write there. So! If the story IS eligible and I decide to sign up for big bang, I think I should probably not... have an artist in the wings? I think that's frowned upon. There's definitely something in the FAQs about not courting writers/artists before claims.

But if it's ineligible--or if it is eligible, but I decide not to go the big bang route--I will let you know, because art! art is EXCITING!

[jmtorres]

Heyyyy so yeah, their official answer was I could only do it as a big bang if grey_bard stop dorking around posting fic as Darcy and Loki on the kinkmemes, and that ain't happening, so it will not be a big bang!

(Man, I feel a little bad, I suspect they took forever to answer because they must have been deliberating about how to let it in, and I'm like, heh no.)

Anyway: if you are still interested in doing art for the the Assembly Con fic, I am all for it, and let me know if I can do anything for you aside from have you on the WIP filter :-)

[venatic]

(stupid time zones screwing up my response time)
If you have particular images you'd like to see, that'd help. Doesn't have to be from this story, even. I find "Darcy and Loki get up to shenanigans" a bit....nebulous to draw. A sentence, a scene, really anything. Thor is the only Avengers-continuity movie I have access to, though, so if you want something involving characters from the other movies you might have to point to relevant vids/screen caps.

[elspethdixon]

I think, like jazzypom said, that you just have to not have posted it anywhere. If it were me, I'd feel okay about signing up for a big bang with an fic that's already in progress as long as I still wrote at least the mimumum word-count of the bang on the fic.

Hey, if by some miracle we can get Reassembled finished before the new year, seanchai and I will have an excuse to finish the WWII AU fic that we started for the last big bang and then abandoned when we realized it didn't have a plot beyond "WWII aircraft are cool, Steve is lame when he tries to flirt with girls."

... except that's mostly Steve, Tony, Bucky, and Betsy Ross, with a possible sequel about Tony, Rhodey, and Temujin "Gene" Khan* that I'll probably stay too intimidated about trying to write about the Pacific Theater to ever write, so I'm not sure it counts as "Avengers." It's more "Golden Age Cap characters + Tony" and "Armored Adventures WWII AU."


*AKA "The Awesome Fighter Pilot Adventures of Gene & FlyingTiger!Rhodey (also featuring Tony Stark)"

[elspethdixon]

Ooh, ooh, wait, the Carol/Wanda noir AU where Carol is a hardboiled detective and Wanda is the lady in red who show up in her office with a sob story and dark secrets would also work. Probably better, because it would have Avengers villains and supporting characters.

[jmtorres]

....Not that I would want to discourage this. Hey, did you know you can sign up to write two big bangs?

[elspethdixon]

We have to finish Reassembled first, which in theory should have happened by then, but considering we've been working on it for over a year, saying "we'll be finished with it by X date" feel like tempting fate. I might jinx us into deciding to revise it again.

[jmtorres]

*cough* Rules of this big bang says must include two Avengers. Steve and Tony are totally two Avengers.