Box of Tricks

Well, well, well.   Today's the day, eh?   The finish line is well and truly in sight!

So, authors - let us know how it feels to have the finished draft submitted/about to be submitted.  Freeing?  Cause for a party?  Terrifying beyond all belief (surely not! :D)?

And artists - we're well on our way now, with our rough drafts submitted today, and from now until posting day to work on perfecting them.  Or maybe you're the organised type (*hint*  This would not be me....) - already finished so you can sit back and put your feet up with a well-deserved glass of something fizzy?

Feel free to use this post as a place to squee, flail, gibber, chat or collapse in a heap and wait for a good-looking agent to come around and feed you grapes and pet your hair.

Take a seat on this here couch...tell us all about it!

And can I also just say, on behalf of all my fellow modly types,  thank you so much to all who are playing, cheerleading and reading along in this year's Big Bang.  It wouldn't be anything without your participation and support.  We're grateful for so much enthusiasm, and very excited to see the results!   Go Pros! 

Evening all!  (or Morning, Afternoon, Night...depending on where you are :D)


The deadlines for fic and art grow ever closer (la la la....I'm not listening...) and I'm just here to ask how you all are doing?   Writing, scribbling, painting, vidding - let us know how it's going.  And feel free to use the comments to ask for pointers, opinions, help with certain details, or simply just to flail and cry and share the misery! *g*

Please pop over to the recent 'What's happening next' post to check on the schedule for the coming month and find out how the submitting and posting process will progress.


Lastly, I have a couple of...er...useful(?) links for those of us not quite in the zen space about our stories and/or art yet...



Fanfiction Generator - enter a few words and it creates a whole story for you.   Coherence and well-thought-out plotline most definitely optional, but it's a hoot and a half and great distraction material!



Online Paint - I have lost HOURS arsing about with this.  I don't know why it's so addictive - something about the virtual paintbrush I think.  But see...this is the kind of masterpiece of the Lads (or at least one of them) that you could be creating...


Good luck all!

I've put together a few resources that might be useful for our artists:

Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials

GIMP (if you're like me and sadly can't justify the cost of PS)  tips, tricks and tutorials

VLC Player.  A free opensource media player that will play pretty much any file type and is very useful for making screengrabs from DVDs.   I do have a tutorial for screencapping that I made for another fandom, so if anyone would like that, just let me know and I'll upload it here.  ETA - the lovely snailbones  asked,  so I've reproduced the tutorial at my graphics comm here.

Fanlore page on vidding, including a link to an essay/tips on LJ

Image/screencap resources for Pros:

Daily Professionals on Tumblr
Screencaps of all episodes from Tauna's Slash Den
Caps from selected episodes at The Professionals Image Library

Please feel free to share any tips, tricks or resources in the comments - and don't be afraid to ask for help or advice.  We're privileged to  have some very experienced and talented artists on our list!

If any artist hasn't received their rough draft, or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to PM any of the mods, or email us all at prosbigbang@gmail.com

Happy pixel/paint/vid-fiddling - let us know how you're getting on!