So, we're starting posting on the 7th, which is tomorrow. Eep! So, I thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone of when they are posting and get the header up. Here's our posting schedule:

Sept 7th: rabidchild
Sept 8th: elledeegee
Sept 9th: treonb
Sept 10th: marissaangell
Sept 11th: frith_in_thorns
Sept 12th: angelita26
Sept 13th:
Sept 14th:
Sept 15th:
Sept 16th: citrinesunset
Sept 17th:
Sept 18th: rabidchild
Sept 19th:
Sept 20th: kaylashay
Sept 21st: sinfulslasher
Sept 22nd: elrhiarhodan
Sept 23rd: theatregirl7299
Sept 24th: backrose_17
Sept 25th: florastuart
Sept 26th: veleda_k
Sept 27th: sheenianni


Now, here's the header:
<b>Title:</b> <b>Crossover Fandom:</b> <b>Characters/Pairings:</b> <b>Rating:</b> <b>Word Count:</b> <b>Spoilers:</b> <b>Warnings:</b> <b>Summary:</b> <b>Author's Note:</b> <b>Art:</b>

Now, let's go through it.

Title: Self explanatory.
Crossover Fandom: Only if you have one. :) If you do not, just erase it from the header.
Characters/Pairings: Your primary characters and/or pairing, secondary pairing - feel free to put characters here if you have a gen fic.
Rating: Use the rating system you are most comfortable with.
Word Count: Again, self explanatory. :D
Spoilers: Due to having people from all over and being in all different places in the fandom, please just say "Spoilers for current season" or "Spoilers for season 3" or something of the like.
Warnings: Please please please use this. if you think you need to put in a warning, please do so. Better to have one than not have one. Do Note - Slash is not a warning and should not be used. If you have a slash warning, I will comment for you to take it down and you will have 48 hours to do so before I take down your fic. You will then repost it at the end of the round - no exceptions.
Summary: Quick sentence or three about your fic.
Author's Note: Please put the following sentence or some variation of it - I do not own White Collar or its characters. If you have a crossover fandom, put that in as well. This is just so we don't get anybody legal on our butt. Thank your betas and anybody else you need or want to.

Art: Either below or above your fic but it needs to be in the same post with a link to the art post if there is one. If your artist has not gotten your art to you by the time you post, please put TBP (to be posted).


Do not worry about tagging - the mods will take care of that as the stories go up.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. I will open up for posting around midnight CDT. Happy posting everyone!

Hi everyone!

So, it is the 15th of August. Some house cleaning first.

Artists: While today is scheduled as the last day to drop out, either though a comment on this post or through email / PM, you can still drop out at any time if you need to. If you need to drop out after today, you need to contact us ASAP. Either through email at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com or by PMing either myself or sirwynai. Nobody is going to get in trouble. We'd just like to know so we could sound the horn for a pinch artist.

Authors: You have 17 days to get in your final draft (September 1st). We ask that, when sending in your final draft, to put in the subject line: User name - Final Draft - Title of Draft. So, my subject, for example, would read: crescent_gaia - Final Draft - Notes and Murder. You don't have to send in any sort of header for it. We just want to make sure that everyone is ready for posting their story. Also, it doesn't have to be finished finished - if you still need to beta it, that's fine. It really is more so we can make sure that everyone is on track.

Alright, let's get to the dates. It is first come, first serve. We want to have only one person a day posting. If you cannot post on any of the dates, give us a poke and we'll see what we can do.

( List of Dates )

Hello Authors and Artists!

Your final drafts are due now until the 7th of September. At 10 am Central Time on September 8th, we will be closed to accepting your drafts. You are to send your final drafts to whitecollar.bb.mods.

For Authors: Your final draft must be at least 10,000 words and have a beginning and an end. Please attach a draft to your email or remind us that you allowed us to view your google document and it's finished now. We ask that you put the title of your fic and final draft in the subject line of your email. In the body of the email, we would like your user name, pairing, and word count. So your email would look like this:

Subject: Dreams and Arrows -- Final Draft
Body: User name: crescent_gaia
Pairings: Peter/Neal, OT3
Word Count: ~20,000

For Artists: A link to what you are doing or a description would be fine. We just want to make sure that the authors will have a piece of art come the time that they post. Also, artists, your email should look like this:

Subject: Fic Title - Art
Body: User name: crescent_gaia
Type of Art: Mix, Photo Manip, drawing
Link/Description: [Put Link to Art here] or Description


Now, this does not mean that you cannot tinker with your fic or art. You have until your posting day to work on what you are doing. We just want to make sure that there will be something on your posting day.

If you need to drop out for whatever reason, please leave a comment below. We won't bite and you won't be penalized in any way. We understand that sometimes life gets the better of you.

Also, we've had everyone pick their dates. I'm going to post the schedule here as well as on the first day of posting. If you need to change your date, please leave a comment or reach us at whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com


Posting Schedule
7th --
8th --
9th -- silver_falcon24
10th -- sirwynai
11th --
12th -- germanjj
13th -- sahiya
14th -- crescent_gaia
15th -- lionessvalenti
16th -- ceares
17th -- mrwubbles
18th -- elledeegee

Hi Everyone.

I just wanted to say that we will be putting up the post to pick posting dates on Monday. The dates will start on the 7th of September and will go until the 18th of September. I know it's a long time, but that's to make sure that people can get a date that works to their schedules. We might even end before the 18th if the end dates aren't taken. It'll go up in the afternoon on Monday.

As for Livejournal - it seems stable for the moment, but I'm not going to completely trust it. Therefore, we have set up a community over at the Archive of Our Own. It is here and all you have to do is join the collection. If you do not have an Ao3 account and would like one, please ask me for invites. So, if Livejournal is down on the date that you are supposed to post, I do hope that you'll take us up on the Ao3 collection.

Also, if you were here for round 1, I would love it if you would join and post your fic from the first round. If you don't feel like doing so, that's fine as well. But it is open if you want to.

Last thing - Artists, we still have one fic left to be claimed over at the fic selection post (here). So, we decided that if you have already selected a fic and want a second one, you can claim the open fic. Until it is claimed, we will not be opening the other fics up for a second artist. So, please either spread the word or, if you have time, please claim it. We're trying other avenues as well to get an artist, but it would be nice if you could.

I think that's everything. Happy writing/editing and creating!

Hi authors! Today is the last day to get your final draft of the big bang in. Please submit it to whitecollar.bb.mods@gmail.com. If you have any concerns, please drop us a PM, email, or reply to this post. I am going to be keeping close to the gmail today as well as LJ, so don't hesitate to contact us.

The following authors have final drafts in and are all ready to go with posting:
hopenight
astra_sequi
katikat
krazykipper
dapatty
2_libras
hllangel
afiawri

If you have not signed up for a date to post your big bang fic, please select a date here. If there are any questions, problems, or anything else (hat foolery) - please do not hesitate to get in touch with us. I'm here all day.

Artists - if you're having any problems with getting in touch with authors or if you need anything, feel free to contact us as well. Make sure that you know the date that your author is going to post their fic and just have fun.

Thank you everyone for participating and making this a lot of fun. Don't forget about the White Collar summer finale tonight as well while you're putting finishing touches on your fic or art.

Alright - there's a small change to this, mostly with the final draft due date for the authors. It is now September 7th, because my mind has gone muddy and I crossed the final draft due date with starting to post.

So - All Final Drafts are Due September 7th by Midnight CDT (7 am GMT). Thank you for everyone who has participated so far. Your final draft must be 10,000 words or I will not give you the green light for posting. What will happen is that you will get posting access for the big bang comm and I will give access in just one go. So, when sending in your rough draft, please have your username somewhere in the body of the email. If you have already sent in your final draft - even if you got a reply email saying you're good to go - please send back an email with your username. This just helps me when trying to get everything ready to go.

Now - Date Selection is below. It is First Come, First Served. If there is a date already taken and you need that date, PM me with the subject line of "Date Selection for WC BB" so I know what it is about. Or email us with the same subject in the subject line. We are starting posting September 8th and I won't be amazed on how this will go well with my White Collar crash of no new episodes until wintertime. :D

I know that we might not need all the dates there, but I'm putting them out. If there are dates where we have gaps, that's fine. Also - all authors and artists have until their posting dates to fiddle with their story or art. All I ask is all authors get me a final draft in just so I can check word count.

Thank you and happy selecting!

Dates For Posting
September 8th -- astra_sequi
September 9th -- krazykipper
September 10th --
September 11th --
September 12th -- hllangel
September 13th -- hopenight
September 15th -- katikat
September 16th -- 2_libras
September 17th -- surreal_44
September 18th -- sirwynai
September 19th -- dapatty
September 20th -- afiawri
September 21st -- crescent_gaia
September 22nd -- medjai_trowa

Hi everyone.

I know that you're probably wondering where the summaries post is. Considering the fact that we have eleven drafts in (Yay! Thank you authors!!), we are debating as mods if to hold open the rough draft summary due date until Monday morning at 10 am Central time. This means that the summary post would be up around noon Central time on Monday.

If we decide to hold open the rough draft deadline, the authors who have already turned in their rough drafts will be able to pick their posting dates first before anybody else. We do appreciate those who were able to get their drafts in and will honor that by giving them the early decision on posting dates.

If not, there will be a summary post up for artists to pick what they want to do art for at 4 pm Central time. We thank you very much for your patience and there will be a decision shortly.
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ETA: Due to krazykipper's wonderful suggestion, there will be a summary post for artist selection up at 4 pm today. After that point, authors will have an extension until Monday morning but no guarantee of art. So, authors, if you really want art, you have until 3:30 pm Central today - a half hour before I make the artist selection post - to get in your rough drafts in order to have a guarantee or art.

Thank you for your time. :)