The Weekly Check In Post

[przed.livejournal.com]

We're exactly one week from the deadline for the rough draft, so it's time for our weekly check in post.

So how are you doing? Are you confident you're going to make the minimum for the deadline? Are you way over the minimum word count? Are you completely done?

Anyone having any difficulties? If so, throw your problem out there and maybe someone can help you out.

We'd love to hear from all of our writers out there. There are two gentlemen from CI5 who are especially eager to start reading:


Thanks to The Daily Professionals from whom I nicked the pic.

Comments

[merentha13.livejournal.com]

Tell the lads the rough draft is ready to send! The story finally has a beginning, a middle and an end. I've sent it out for its first beta - so we'll have to wait to see how that goes!

Question - if I have the plot finished - just need to clean up and add some detail - do I still need to send an outline, or just a summary?

[przed.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic news! Congrats on getting the rough draft done.

We'll be posting the details of what you need to send tomorrow. You will need to send both your rough draft and your summary. The rough draft will go to the artist, so it should be as complete as you can make it.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I'm over the limit (have everything needed for the deadline), and there's an ending (of sorts) and all; but now I'm rearranging sections and filling in gaps (in between some 10-hr days at work :(). I'm doing that, and thinking that Doyle's still OOC, and there isn't enough Bodie, and there needs to be a little more in the plot... but I'm working on it, and as long as nothing wacky happens next weekend, I should be in a pretty decent place for the 28th. Although I could use a good sleeping-in right now, LOL.

And then comes the getting of the feedback. :-)

I'm looking at the b&w picture on the wall in your photo; if it's the one I think it is, someone has a great sense of humor. :D

[przed.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're well ahead of the game, in spite of those 10 hour days at work. (Hope those end for you soon.) Good luck with getting it all done. And remember, you only need a rough draft for the 28th. It doesn't have to be polished or even done. (Mine certainly isn't going to be done by then. :-/)

Hmmm, that pic does look rather intriguing, doesn't it. *g*

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[judesmk.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm still at 8,300 words having been distracted by a much shorter 1,500 word challenge. But I will have a summary and an outline ready for next week. Will this do. I am very confident of finishing the whole thing by end September.

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[przed.livejournal.com]

It looks like you're nicely on track, but I'm going to check with the other mods and send you an email with the details. Stay tuned.

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[przed.livejournal.com]

I've just sent a follow up message to your email account. Let us know if you have any questions.

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[judesmk.livejournal.com]

I've responded direct to przed and I'm hopeful of meeting the deadlines. One advantage to being unemployed - lots of time to write!!

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[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

You can do it Judes!!

Almost done

[longstrt.livejournal.com]

I have well over the minimum and am writing the finish now so I hope to be ready for June 28.

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[przed.livejournal.com]

Fantastic news! Sounds like you'll be well on track for June 28.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

What a great picture!

I'm well over the minimum but not finished, and did write a (very) rough outline and summary before I left for Disneyland. Now that I am back, hope to have time to write during the rest of my week vacation. The lads are still valiantly ordering dinner at a restaurant, waiting for me to come back and get them back into the plot.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Hooray for being over the minimum. I'm sure you'll finish handily. Good luck getting the lads out of the restaurant and back into the plot.

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

It's a very long and leisurely dinner! One of my favorite kind. :D

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

I'm so ready I might explode by next Tuesday!!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

Being ready is awesome. Exploding is less so. *g*

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I ain't cleaning up after ILWB explodes! Nope, not this gal's job. *beg*

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

I'll explode neatly, I promise!

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

LOL!!

[halotolerant.livejournal.com]

*dance of structure*
I have structure! I need words! But words are easier than structure! *g*

I'm not worried *yet*... *g*

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Is that 'special dancing', like Kate Bush used to do?

[przed.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the structure! (That's what I'm struggling with right now. Stoopid structure.) And good luck on the words!

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

*sends zed hammer, nails and 2x4s for new structure*

[przed.livejournal.com]

*attempts to hammer together new structure without hitting thumbs*

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

My smug grin, let me show you it! :D

I have not only completed my rough draft, but have received the beta back and made the changes and fixed the (rather a lot of) continuity errors. So, aside from a quick glance over to make sure there's nothing too blatantly not British in it... this baby is DONE! (and I have the summary done too!)

Now comes the really hard part... waiting to post! lol

[przed.livejournal.com]

That's fantastic! And I shall try not to be jealous as I slowly hammer together my story. ;-)

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the hammering! I'm sure your story is going to be awesome.

[przed.livejournal.com]

I don't know about awesome. It's currently just making me hyperventilate. :-/

[liriel1810.livejournal.com]

*holds paper bag for you to breathe into*

[margaret-r.livejournal.com]

I've reached the word limit for the draft, well exeeded it actually, and what I have is currently winging it's way to my now online beta for her opinion. So, fingers crossed there.

I still have the end to sort out and write but I can deliver a rough outline of the end section to go with the rought draft of everything else by next week;) Just have to come up with a decent summary. So I think I'm okay:)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Well done! You're well ahead of the game.