Shall we go with a BANG or a whimper, Philes?
I just floated this idea on my friend's list... now I'm wondering what the interest of the fandom-at-large would be...
Would you be interested in an X-files Big Bang Challenge?
Okay, there might be some questions we need to answer first:
What is a "Big Bang Challenge"?
It's a fanfiction/art challenge that challenges authors to write new, looooong fanfics (20,000 words or more) and then artists to create accompanying pretties. The end products are kept secret until a set date... at which time there is an explosion of new work trickled out over a very few number or days.
Wow! That's a great idea, truemyth! Are you a genius or something?
Oh, stop you, I'm blushing. No, this far from my idea. The first fandom I heard of doing this was Supernatural and they are working on their third year at spn_j2_bigbang. You can take a look at their FAQ, though we could set ours up a bit differently, should we like.
Who could participate?
Everyone!
Okay, okay... honestly, I've never been closely involved with a Big Bang community before, so I'm kinda winging it here. The main goal is to generate good, long, NEW fanfic. This is what interests me! As far as what art is created, that is based on the fic (yes, artists get to read the drafts early and stuff. It pays to create!). I gather that the Supernatural fandom is mostly creating manips and original fanart and such, but I don't see a reason why artists couldn't create videos, quote icons, and other things. We can make our OWN rules. We are PHILES.
Oh, and I'd totally hope that we could pimp this out to the other places on the web that X-Philes lurk. It would be LJ based, but I'd love to see writers from Haven, TWoP, Ephemeral, and other X-files places.
What would the time line be like?
Again, this is up to interpretation... but I think I'd like to see stories posted in November... maybe with a June 1st start date for writing? Which means we need to get moving on this.
Wait, isn't our fandom a bit dead right now? Think this is going to happen?
Nothing gets people moving like a big explosion, right?
I'm realistic and don't expect the kind of turn out spn_j2_bigbang gets. Frankly though, if we are able to generate a hand-full of excellent novellas? NEW novellas? I would so put that one in the WIN column, you know?
I hope everyone is now totally titillated and ready to VOTE!
Poll X-files Big Bang
And you should totally comment if I forgot something major. Fair warning, if you volunteer to co-mod and I take you up on it and we are not yet friends... I WILL FRIEND YOU AND GIVE YOU A NICKNAME AND MAKE US MATCHING JACKETS!
Would you be interested in an X-files Big Bang Challenge?
Okay, there might be some questions we need to answer first:
It's a fanfiction/art challenge that challenges authors to write new, looooong fanfics (20,000 words or more) and then artists to create accompanying pretties. The end products are kept secret until a set date... at which time there is an explosion of new work trickled out over a very few number or days.
Oh, stop you, I'm blushing. No, this far from my idea. The first fandom I heard of doing this was Supernatural and they are working on their third year at spn_j2_bigbang. You can take a look at their FAQ, though we could set ours up a bit differently, should we like.
Everyone!
Okay, okay... honestly, I've never been closely involved with a Big Bang community before, so I'm kinda winging it here. The main goal is to generate good, long, NEW fanfic. This is what interests me! As far as what art is created, that is based on the fic (yes, artists get to read the drafts early and stuff. It pays to create!). I gather that the Supernatural fandom is mostly creating manips and original fanart and such, but I don't see a reason why artists couldn't create videos, quote icons, and other things. We can make our OWN rules. We are PHILES.
Oh, and I'd totally hope that we could pimp this out to the other places on the web that X-Philes lurk. It would be LJ based, but I'd love to see writers from Haven, TWoP, Ephemeral, and other X-files places.
Again, this is up to interpretation... but I think I'd like to see stories posted in November... maybe with a June 1st start date for writing? Which means we need to get moving on this.
Nothing gets people moving like a big explosion, right?
I'm realistic and don't expect the kind of turn out spn_j2_bigbang gets. Frankly though, if we are able to generate a hand-full of excellent novellas? NEW novellas? I would so put that one in the WIN column, you know?
I hope everyone is now totally titillated and ready to VOTE!
Poll X-files Big Bang
And you should totally comment if I forgot something major. Fair warning, if you volunteer to co-mod and I take you up on it and we are not yet friends... I WILL FRIEND YOU AND GIVE YOU A NICKNAME AND MAKE US MATCHING JACKETS!