Kingsman Revese Bang

We're a little less than a month from turn in (I meant to do this last week but forgot), and it's a good time for authors to share snippets of their stories in progress and members of the comm - artists, other writers, cheerleaders - to read and comment.

This is not to be an exercise in constructive criticism in any way, shape, or form. It's a chance for everyone to cheer on writers, many of whom are writing more than one story. If there's something that you don't like, then say nothing. Same holds if there is something you see that doesn't make sense or has spelling and grammatical errors, please remember, these snippets are from works still being written and edited.

Authors, if you do wish to share your work in progress, please put the artist's name and a short description of the art and pairing in the comment subject line, e.g., "For AnarchyCox's Merlin in Tuxedo Mills & Boon Cover artwork, Merlahad" (to use my own as an example).

Your mods can't wait to see what's been cooking in your fertile brains!

NB: If you aren't a frequent visitor to Dreamwidth, you can get notifications of new comments in your email by clicking on the Track This link.

As always, if you have any questions, please contact your mods, elrhiarhodan and/or anarchycox.

Tomorrow is the deadline for dropping out without penalty. Any dropouts after tomorrow will be defaults and result in a ban from the next challenge round.

If you can't complete, please let us know so we can timely arrange for pinch hits.

Thank you

Your mods have listened to what you've had to say in your check in survey - that while things are going well, they aren't going at the speed of light, and for writers who've taken on more than one prompt, panic is setting in.

Therefore, we are pushing almost the whole schedule over by a full month. Due dates for finished fic and art is now June 15th and posting will start on June 18th and close by July 1st. As long as every prompt has a posted and complete story, Achievement Unlocked bonus stories will start posting on July 2nd and must be completed by October 1st.

The only date that's not moving forward by a month is the deadlines for dropping out and pinch hitting. The last date for dropping out moves forward only by two weeks and pinch hit requests (if necessary) will go out the day after.

We hope this extension gives everyone peace of mind and less anxiety.

REVISED key dates for the challenge schedule:

Last day for author drop out: May 15th, 2019
Pinch hit requests: May 16th, 2019

Challenge Closes, Fics and Finished Art Due: June 15th, 2019
Posting Starts: June 18th, 2019
Posting Ends: July 1st, 2019

Achievement Unlocked (Bonus Round) Posting: July 2nd - October 1st (start date contingent on all prompts having a completed story already posted).

The complete Rules/FAQ can be found at the Community Profile and here.

Please don't hesitate to contact the mods if you have any questions at any point in the sign up. You can do so by commenting on any post, sending a PM via DW, or emailing the mods at the addresses in the FAQ. Our door is always open.

Your mods:

elrhiarhodan
anarchycox

These are the prompts that are available for the "Achievement Unlocked" Bonus Claiming Round (psst - it's all of them). As in our post here, these prompts are available for anyone who is already writing a story for the Kingsman Reverse Bang, and while we do ask that you "claim" a prompt via a comment, multiple writers may claim the same prompt.

Stories written for this round cannot be published until all of the stories from the official claiming rounds are published complete, so the earliest the Achievement Unlocked round stories can start posting is June 2, 2019. Authors and artists won't be officially matched up, but an email notification will be sent around this time, just so everyone involved knows what's going on.

( Kingsman Reverse Bang Art Prompts )

As we'd mentioned in the instructions for the Round 2 of art claims, the mods have come up with an exciting reward for all of the writers and artists, which we are calling "Achievement Unlocked" (one of your mods is a gamer).

Since all of the Art Prompts have been claimed (the achievement), we will be allowing writers to write additional stories for any of the prompts that strike their fancy (the unlocking). This is akin to the "Madness" round in a Remix challenge or a "Treat" round in an exchange challenge, but with a few differences because of the structure of the Reverse Bang.

1 – There is no formal claiming, but your mods do request that you let them know what prompt(s) you will be writing stories for. We will have a third prompt post and the comments will be moderated (remain hidden from view by everyone but the mods).

2 – There are no minimums for story length. The 5k minimum applies only to stories claimed in Round 1 and Round 2 (the guarantee that each artist gets a longer story as a reward for their artwork).

3 – Achievement Unlocked stories cannot be posted until all of the primary stories have been posted (that's the thirty stories for the thirty artworks). The posting period for Achievement Unlocked stories begins on June 2, 2019, unless there's a default and we've given a pinch hitter some extra time, which will delay the opening for the Achievement Unlocked round.

4 – The posting period for Achievement Unlocked stories runs until September 1, 2019. Yes, that's longer than the primary posting period, but this gives writers a chance to stretch their legs and write a whole bunch of stories, or one really long story.

5 – Writers who have defaulted on their primary story will not be permitted to post an Achievement Unlocked story, even if the writer has pulled out of the challenge before the dropout date. Writers who disregard this rule will not be permitted to participate in future rounds of the Kingman Reverse Bang.

6 – Artists who have signed up as writers may write a story for their own art.

7 – While creating additional artwork is never a requirement, that is double-true for Achievement Unlocked stories. Formal matching emails will not be sent out for these stories. At some point after the drafts for the primary stories are turned in, those writers who've signed up for Achievement Unlocked stories AND have turned in their drafts will be given the contact details for their artists. As with the primary round, Preferred Pairings and Wants are optional, authors must respect the Do Not Wants.

8 – Artists may opt-out of having their art available for the Achievement Unlocked round. Please email your mods at kingsmanreversebang@gmail.com and let us know if you want to exclude any or all of your art prompts before April 13, when the post with the art and the moderated comments will go up.

Here's the updated calendar and the usual speil.


Round Three "Achievement Unlocked" Selection: 11:00 AM EDT, April 13, 2019 - Countdown Timer
Author Check in (mandatory): April 21st, 2019
Last day for author drop out: May 1st, 2019
Pinch hit requests: May 3rd, 2019

Primary Challenge Closes, Fics and Finished Art Due: May 15th, 2019
Posting Starts: May 18th, 2019
Posting Ends: June 1st, 2019

Achievement Unlocked Round Posting Begins: When all of the primary round stories have been posted complete, but the earliest will be June 2nd.
Achievement Unlocked Round Posting Ends: September 1st, 2019

The complete Rules/FAQ can be found at the Community Profile and here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to your mods, either by comment to this post, email, or PM. We're here to help and make sure that this is fun for everyone.

Your mods:

elrhiarhodan
anarchycox

Sorry folks - forgot to change the intro! Nine prompts for you to pick from!

ETA - I had forgotten to include #9

( Kingsman Reverse Bang Art Prompts )

Round Two of Art Prompt Claiming will open at 11 AM on Saturday, April 6, and you can track it with this new countdown timer.

The prompts available for Round Two are the nine (9) prompts still remaining (several people who'd signed up either dropped out or haven't selected yet). A post will go up with just those nine prompts (with their original numbers). This claiming is for writers who would like to write a second story. The same rules apply, five thousand word minimum, story has to be posted during the challenge posting window, and the deadlines for defaulting remain the same.

But we have an added twist. If ALL of the remaining prompts are claimed, a very special challenge bonus will be unlocked. We aren't going to tell you what it is right now, but I assure you it's unique for Reverse Bangs and really, truly awesome.

So, go take a look at the art prompts that are still available (the data for all of the claimed prompts has been struck through) and pick a prompt you'd like to write another story for. We just need nine hearty (and prolific) writerly souls and EVERYONE benefits.

As of the time of this post, sixteen writers made their claims and had them confirmed. Most of those claims came within the first 3 minutes!!!!

There are nine authors who haven't claimed yet, and there are still a LOT of great prompts (including almost all of the Hartwin prompts).

But it's Saturday and both of your mods will need to be AFK until later in the day, so if you make your claim between now and then, don't worry, we'll confirm when we get back.

Emails for artists and authors will start going out tomorrow. That's a bit of a long process, so be patient.

Thank you to the writers who've made their claims and to all of the artists!

See you this evening.

That's less than one hour from now. The countdown timer is running and the post button will be pushed at 11 AM sharp.

Have your prompts ready to go!

We are SO excited we can barely contain ourselves.

For those of you who are a little excited (like your mods), here is a countdown timer to Saturday, March 30, 11AM EDT.

Bookmark this page for handy reference.