One-week draft notice, and draft submission guidelines

[gabrielbb_mods]

What you need to know:

* Absolutely every story is due to us by Sunday 2 March. There are no exceptions to this, we need to have them in hand so that we can check them for word counts and completeness, so that we know your artist will be working with a complete story. We will accept it as being the 2nd as long as it's still the 2nd somewhere in

Comments

[gabrielbb_mods]

Well, I don't have time to read them all in detail this week - I'll just be skimming them to make sure enough is there. I won't be actually enjoying them until later! :) So it's up to you. Basically the version you send to me shoudl be ready for the artist, just in case there's a communication failure and the artist doesn't get the fic from the author for whatever reason. For that reason I'd advise leaving in notes and half-finished stuff, or rather, putting in clarification that makes sense to other people of 'this is what is meant to happen here, this is what it will feel like' and so on. So send whatever you like, anytime before the deadline, just so long as it works! :)

[gabrielbb_mods]

I know, so lazy of me. :( Almost like I do things like WORK and EAT and SLEEP (and also have a fic about dragon!Cas to write).

[raise_the_knife]

Unfortunately the bunny I was wrangling will not let me have 15k. Would it be okay to make it into two or three themed short stories?

[gabrielbb_mods]

Not really, as that isn't really a big bang. The only exception that I can think of is if what you're creating is a work something like a diptych or triptych (google image search should be informative if the terms aren't familiar), where you have two or three artworks (well, stories in this case) that are very closely related and depend on each other for their full effect, such that you can't really post them separately. An example in fanfic might be the story I wrote for the Team Free Lover Secret Lovers Exchange last year, Your Kind Prison. Actually, I suppose it's a diptych in two different ways! The first is that the main story, which is about 25k in length, has Gabriel and Team Free Will collecting up the fallen angels and defeating Metatron, but that main story is set in a framing device: four 1k first-person monologues one by each of the archangels, giving their account of how each of them 'left' Heaven in their various ways, which reflects thematically on the decisions the rest of the angels (and humans, really) make after

[raise_the_knife]

That is actually what I was looking at, bringing in a comparative and linking the story to similar points in canon to expand on the relationship between my pairing to emphasise the emotional effect of the events in my story. I get the impression from your comment that it doesn't matter what I say, though, so I will drop out and save you the trouble.

[gabrielbb_mods]

Not at all the tone I was aiming for! It's a very grey area, but I was genuinely trying to help figure out a way that it could be made to work - without saying anything that could be made to sound like 'oh yes, just give us two vaguely linked stories' is a viable precedent for next year.

Would love to keep you around if you think it's a viable option - and it sounds like you have given it some solid thought in the same directions as I did - but of course it's up to you either way. :)