Two Thousand Words Project: Information + Timeline

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, we'll make it two.

Beta post, volunteers listed and signups open permanently: fav.me/d6aegsq

Writing information: fav.me/d6ble7e

List of Participants and Collab information: fav.me/d6l7yjb



WHAT IS TWO THOUSAND WORDS?

Two Thousand Words is an art and literature collaborative project, in which writers will be challenged to write a longer work and artists will get the opportunity to work alongside them. The writing can be a novella, ballad, or poetry collection, and the art can be any medium and take any form (cover, illustrations, character portraits, etc.) to accompany. And we really mean any medium: traditional, digital, photography, artisan crafts, video, audio, whatever you can think of.

The minimum word count for writers is 7,500 words for prose and 100 lines for poetry (decided in a vote along with a few other things, results here). There is no maximum except for the stipulation that it must be completed by the end of the project (and not only half-posted, or something) to come out with the art.

There will be checkups along the way to see how you guys are going. If you have to drop out of the project, that is fine, but please do let us know since it is a collaboration. More info on that below.

This project is open to EVERYONE, not just people in this group and our art partners The-Youngest-Artists or just people in those groups' age ranges, everyone. Tell all your friends! Advertise! Spread the word!


TIMELINE


Signups be open the month of June:
Everyone who wants to be involved should have signed up here: fav.me/d674wfm However, for artists there is a little leeway since you don't start work yet, so technically we will still accept signups until claiming opens. Writers can start writing as soon as they've signed up, if they already have an idea. If not, there likely be activities to help you along the way (though only if there's enough need for them). On July 1st the names of all participants will be collected and posted in a list [EDIT: NOW UPDATED TO A PARTICIPANTS LIST IN THE COLLAB INFO BLOG].

Around this time also, is the permanently open inspiration journal for those who'd like some more ideas, and signups for art and literature betas will open close to the end.

First check-in: August 1. A blog will go up with more details, and writers will be asked to comment giving some general information about how they're going.

Claims will open: September 1st, and stay open for as long as it takes for all stories to be claimed.
By September 1st all authors should have submitted a rough draft that meets the draft word/line count to me (probably via email) along with a summary. That means you have two months to do your first draft (it does not have to be complete, as the minimum will be lower than the final minimum). These summaries will be posted, and artists will put in their preferences for the story/poem(s) they would like to work with. Hopefully this won't take longer than a week. After the assignments are decided, email information will be exchanged so writers and artists can contact each other to work together. If there is an imbalance, artists may work with multiple writers or multiple artists may work on the same writer.

More info now up on the writing period update: fav.me/d6ble7e

Find claims done and assignments posted here: fav.me/d6l7yjb

Second check-in: October 1. Same as before, except artists will have to check-in too, and both will also have to say a little about how the partnership is going.

Submission Deadline: November 1st
All writers and all artists are due to have finished their works by this date. It hasn't been decided yet how this will happen, if they will simply post separately or if the art will be embedded in the story as a pdf, if you will email to me first and I will put them together, etc. Regardless of procedue details however, this is the date that you should aim to have finished by. Posting may or may not begin November 1st (if submissions end up being sent to me, it may take me a week to so to get things together before we can post). Posting will likely be over a period, to avoid flooding readers/viewers with submissions all at once. A vote will be taken on posting methods.



RULES

All participants: Until posting officially goes live in November, please don't put your work up. So that's no WIPs and no uploading to any other website. Once the project ends, you're free to do whatever you like with your work (and if you could drop a link to Two Thousand Words when posting to other websites, that would be very nice :-)).

Moderate mature content will be accepted if it is correctly filtered, but nothing 18+. All submissions must of course follow deviantART policy help.deviantart.com/12/ on unacceptable content.

Writers have their minimums, and artists should challenge themselves too. It's less easy to define this for art, but as a rule of thumb your drawings should not look like a half hour sketch. Artists have two months to complete their art.

If you need an extension, contact me and they will be given on a case by case basis. The regular check-ins are for the purpose of getting a feel for how things are coming along. If you need to drop out for whatever reason, please contact me as soon as possible. If you're a writer who drops out before claims, then it's no problem. If you're a writer or an artist who drops out after the collaboration partnerships are assigned, then I will try to organise something. Writers may be able to get an emergency artist, artists will be asked if they'd like to post their art standalone or if they'd like to be transferred to another writer (or both).

There will be no assignment of betas and participants don't have to seek one out if they'd rather not work with one. However, it is still their responsibility to produce a final work at the project's finish, and not a half-done thing full of spelling mistakes or inconsistencies. It's somewhat of a given that the writer and artist in each partnership will give feedback on each others' work, if no one else.

Private conversations between artists and writers won't be monitored, obviously, once partnerships are assigned. I rather hope 'be nice to each other' goes without saying.

Most important rule of all: Have Fun! See what you can do, and what you can create together!


Current List of Participants:

We have a bit of an inbalance, with 23 writers, 29 artists, and 3 awesome people who are both. We will still accept artists until September, and may possibly accept new writers. Just drop a line and ask.

Writers:
greenleo94
dreamsarefairytales
sneha07
TheLawOfZeroDivision
Link-Rar
TeaDroplet
Oilux
itotallycantdraw-woo
AeroQzar
bespectacled-fleur
Skull-Killer
ErrantCanada
treehuggerluna
Saidani
HandfulsofDust
beautifulshininghope
Miss-JuliaMiriam
TheDarkPathologist
HorizonFalls
Konnono
AshenSun
Lifeisstillsweet
kykaios
Canis-Angst
SweetExodus


Artists:
enorie
ChloeHavengaarde
imaninjagirl
amutoluverr
yeahitsmeagain
xXKeepYourEnemiesXx
kekei94
VDomingos
KawaiiSweet-Nyasa
dyvynath
theGman0
U-Kii-san
Animance
AnnaShell
newbeginning2013
Toyona
TheLawOfZeroDivision
CoLoRfUlHiKaRi
brittacurls
LeptonPage
Lunareye
Ganjamira
AeroQzar
bespectacled-fleur
iDraw-RAWR
Eclectinique
AgentJelly101
X-auri
0illecebra0
sweetsourcherry
myway8D
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Loza-Muse's avatar
If you do this another time after november I think I'll try my hand :)