Weekly Check In Post
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ci5_boxoftricksApologies for the late check in time this week Agents - don't know where the time has gone! I need a Betty of my own to organise my life. Wonder if Cowley would spare her... :)
How's it all going then? Very much looking forward to seeing what everyone's come up with - not long now!
Feel free to share any progress, triumphs, panics or questions in the comments below. Better out than in, as Cowley's ageing aunt used to say. Probably.
Under the cut are a couple of hopefully inspiring images to be going along with :D
How's it all going then? Very much looking forward to seeing what everyone's come up with - not long now!
Feel free to share any progress, triumphs, panics or questions in the comments below. Better out than in, as Cowley's ageing aunt used to say. Probably.
Under the cut are a couple of hopefully inspiring images to be going along with :D
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Date: 2013-09-01 04:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 05:20 pm (UTC)My art is done and with the author. Yeah!!
Now, what will I do with my free time?
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Date: 2013-09-01 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 08:48 pm (UTC)I've seen my artists work - its amazing!!
Really looking forward to October!
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Date: 2013-09-01 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-01 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 01:48 am (UTC)Artistes are in contact, asking excellent questions, and well into the process. :D
Have narrowed down the title to two basic ideas and am hoping to get the "meaning" that I'm looking for.
Yay! \o/
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Date: 2013-09-02 10:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-02 05:04 pm (UTC)I was beginning to panic:- no where near completing; six weeks to go, then five, then four, now three; only half beta'd and some of that needs re-working; aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh (imagine me running around like a headless chicken - not a pretty sight).
But ... this weekend I have buckled down and cracked the backbone (it's amazing what you can achieve when you have to - I must confess I'm a bit of a last-minute kind of girl).
So now I'm dancing around quite happily. Still got a couple of chapters to write, and there's those earlier alterations to look at, but I'm quietly confident.
All I can say is my beta is a saint.
And whilst I don't want to wish away the remaining days of summer ... roll on October. I can't wait to read everyone else's offerings - there were some tantatlising teasers in there.
Marjoram Max
PS. sorry for such a long post, catching up because I've missed so many :)
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Date: 2013-09-03 12:22 am (UTC)Lorraine
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Date: 2013-09-03 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-03 08:04 am (UTC)But I know what I have to do.
I have had a sneak preview from my artist and I am really really happy - it has exactly the right atmosphere.
Right. Time to stop replying on LJ and to transfer this weekend's scribbling onto the computer.
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Date: 2013-09-03 08:16 pm (UTC)I just wish you hadn't mentioned below that there's only 20 days to go. Gulp!
The stupid thing is I had this story worked out in my head since last year's Big Bang, I just found it really hard to sit down and write it. Oh well, lessons learned, and all that ...
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Date: 2013-09-04 11:38 am (UTC)Was your Big Bang story last year your first story ever? I seem to remember finding your journal and that there was one other story listed there, which I presumed you had written after. I was in such awe - how brave, and how brilliantly you pulled it off!
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Date: 2013-09-04 11:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-04 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-04 09:44 pm (UTC)And thank you for saying you think I pulled it off.
It was one of those things. I'd not long been in the fandom and came across CI5 Box of Tricks just when the announcement went out for last year's Big Bang. At the same time the story came to me virtually complete and I couldn't shake it - it had to be written. I probably would have been better off just writing for myself as it was my first story ever, but I've never shown much sense and having the deadline helped tremendously.
And without the looming deadline this year, those two entries in my journal would remain all that I'd written. What is wrong with me? I have wanted to be a writer my entire life, I love writing, I love plotting, I love developing characters and storylines, I get such a buzz when it all comes together, when something just comes to me out of the blue ... and it's so "right". And yet if the committment wasn't there, I wouldn't write. Why? I think I need help.
Anyway, sorry. Kind of gone off topic there.
Back to this year's deadline - there's still 19 (er ... just over 18) days to go. That's still plenty of time. We CAN do it. Definately.
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Date: 2013-09-04 10:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-05 03:53 am (UTC)(well, I was asked for one...)