I think those are all excellent ideas. I've had absolutely smashing authors in Big Bang 2010 and 2011, with brilliant stories going, but through absolutely no fault of their own, one of them didn't finish in 2010, (though luckily I was illustrating more than one story that year), and my author in 2011 didn't finish.
At the moment I'm dithering over whether to do 2012, I was thinking I absolutely, definitely wouldn't...but now that I've seen the main post go up...I'm finding myself getting interested despite myself.
I think the 15K rough drafts are an excellent idea. And as an artist you know you've got something to get going on from the day you're matched up.
I sometimes think it would be nice to have a final date for the stories, where they have to be finished and submitted. And then the final date for the artwork is a month after that. And then they are both posted. Often a story is leading up to a great climax that would be absolutely super to illustrate...but the artist never sees it in time to do anything with it, and is kinda stuck illustrating early/middle scenes in the story.
(At the moment the authors have several months to work in before the artists can get involved. Maybe the artists could have a month at the end to work after the writers have finished.)
The idea of an art beta is a great one. I'd love to have someone I got on well with looking at my WIP and offering advice.
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At the moment I'm dithering over whether to do 2012, I was thinking I absolutely, definitely wouldn't...but now that I've seen the main post go up...I'm finding myself getting interested despite myself.
I think the 15K rough drafts are an excellent idea. And as an artist you know you've got something to get going on from the day you're matched up.
I sometimes think it would be nice to have a final date for the stories, where they have to be finished and submitted. And then the final date for the artwork is a month after that. And then they are both posted. Often a story is leading up to a great climax that would be absolutely super to illustrate...but the artist never sees it in time to do anything with it, and is kinda stuck illustrating early/middle scenes in the story.
(At the moment the authors have several months to work in before the artists can get involved. Maybe the artists could have a month at the end to work after the writers have finished.)
The idea of an art beta is a great one. I'd love to have someone I got on well with looking at my WIP and offering advice.