Weekly Check In

[norfolkdumpling.livejournal.com]

Hello Big Bangers!

It's that weekly check-in time again, so feel free to step on up and use the comments to tell us how you're doing.   Or, alternatively,  flail/cry/jump-for-joy/pour a large one (delete as applicable).   Got any questions you need answered?  Ask away!   Just want to chat about something that isn't the Pros Big Bang?  Well...we're probably OK with that too ;)

Let us know how things are going and give those cheerleaders a chance to shake their pom poms.  Go on - they really like an audience!

Finally,  here are 10 authors' 10 best tips for writing, as collected by The Guardian.

Happy writing, and happy weekend folks!

Comments

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

Is wallet or billfold used? I can't tell anymore . . if it sounds wrong, I've asked myself too many times. . lol

Also:

With a block of flats- is there an inside the you can pick up your mail. In the US you get the mail in the lobby from individualized boxes with a key. How do describe that for a flat in Soho?

Thanks for any help.

[inlovewithboth.livejournal.com]

Men use wallets, usually with their loose change in their pockets.

Interesting about the block of flats thing. The one's I've been in (and the one I once lived in), post used to get left on the side on a shelf for you to collect. Very open and very trusting. It's probably not like that much now.

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

Men use wallets here. :)

In flats these days, the post either gets delivered through your individual door or dropped off in a pigeon hole/box thingy on the ground floor for you to pick it up when you can. Only recently did they start putting locks on them though, as you can't really trust anybody these days. I hope this helps. :)

[krisserci5.livejournal.com]

thank you both, this helps a lot!!!!!

[lillianorchid.livejournal.com]

You're Welcome! :) Glad I could help.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

This isn't going to be much help but I think it might depend on the age of the flat as well.

I live in an old tenement building (19th century) in Scotland and we have just have one post box. It gets picked up by whoever sees it and they leave it at the bottom of the stairs for people to go through and collect.

Whereas a friend who lives in a much more modern flat (about 20 years old), the postman can get in past the first door and there are individual mail boxes for everyone.

[sc-fossil.livejournal.com]

I suppose your neighbours must be kind and neat or the post will either end up in the rubbish or stolen! :) Somebody might not want your bills but they might think it's funny to toss them out or hide them.

[saintvic.livejournal.com]

I suppose when it comes down to it we decide to trust one another, and I prefer it to letting the postman into the building.

And it probs helps that there are only 5 flats in my building so we are not talking about tons of people or tons of mail :D.

Plus I get a few things sent to work when I think I can get away with it.

[solosundance.livejournal.com]

I'd agree with Vic that it might depend on the age/type of flat. I can see a Soho flat of that period (is the story set in Pros era?) being the sort where all the mail would be dumped on a central shelf or table in the lobby/hall for collection. In the real heart of Soho there's a fair number of flats above shops/restaurants rather than blocks. Bigger, more modern places would have the named postboxy things but I wouldn't really associate that with 70s/80s Soho. Great place to set a story (or part of one!) :D