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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
So, we are getting close!!! Are we excited? Ready? Still wondering who make you sign up?

October is closing in. . . let's us know if you need anything!!!

Stories are in our future. . . .
[identity profile] boothros.livejournal.com
Wow, how quickly this year seems to have gone!
This will be my last weekly check in until November when it will sadly all be over for another year.
For now however, it’s still all to play for. Are you racing to the finish like Bodie in his car?
Or are you falling by the wayside like Doyle on his crutches?
If you’ve got time to drag yourselves away from those keyboards, we’d love to know!
Either way, it’s time for those final, deep, hard pushes everyone, the final stretches loom…
Next week, Kris will start a tentative countdown, so on yer bikes, everybody
and good luck…
[identity profile] boothros.livejournal.com
Hello and welcome to another weekly check in and an even bigger welcome to all our lovely artists!

By now, you probably won’t have the time to listen to my ramblings as hopefully you’re all glued to your keyboards and easels writing unforgettable words and making beautiful artwork. Hopefully, if you haven’t worked with your artist/writer before, you’ve also now made a lovely new friend!

If of course things aren’t going quite so well, we your faithful mods, are the people to turn to, so if you’ve any problems, please let us know as soon as you can.

In the meantime, happy writing/vidding/digital arting, we can’t do this without you and nor would we want to. Go forth, my lovelies and create! x
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
So how is summer treating you? How is winter treating you? Oh, wait this is a writing check in. . .

Are you nearing the finish line. . . are you sitting back on your laurels with a mint julip ( I know that is a green drink). . . or are wondering who stole your laptop and if we all will believe that a polar bear ate your story!

Let us know - really we are here for you!!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
So. . . how are we all doing as we are getting close to rough draft submission?

How many of you possess :

*bald patches
*non-pristine fingernails
*broken keyboards
*red-ink marked beta copies
*a half-filled champagne flute
*a satisfied smile
*a list of excuses: like
----aliens ate my laptop
----my pet took a crap on it
----a rival fandom broke in and hit the delete button

Let us know how you are progressing.. . . I know I can mark a couple of the above off
We're here for you. . . . really, we are:)
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
'Ello, 'Ello,'Ello,we're still a little short of artists and vidders, so if you'd like to make one of our lovely BB writers very happy - please sign up by following this link to the Artists and Vidders Sign Up Post.. Go on! You know you want to. :-)

So, lovely BB writers, how are you getting on? Do please let us know (especially if there is anything we can help with)!
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Hallo, BBers!

How's it going? Are the adventures spooling across your pages, the Capri flying down the streets in hot pursuit of a baddie? Or are you stuck on the side of the road with a flat? (my current mode) :-(

Also here to remind you that Artist / Vidder Signups come to a close in the not-too-distant future (31 May, to be exact). Now's the time to line up your supplies to undertake that black velvet Cowley masterpiece rendering of B and D at their active peak. The sign up post is calling your name, and is at https://ci5-boxoftricks.livejournal.com/220920.html.

So let us know how it's going in general. Nothing like a little Pros to distract from that wall you've been meaning to paint for the last three years...
[identity profile] boothros.livejournal.com
Hello once again, one and all, here's hoping this message finds you safe and well.
Hopefully our wonderful writers should be well underway now - please let us know how you're getting on, you know how much we love to cheer you on!
Just a quick reminder that there's just over two weeks left to go before our artists sign up closes.
If you fancy having a go, especially if you've never entered before, then why not come and join us!
It's great fun and a little chance to make something beautiful.
Have a good week everyone and as always, take care and keep in touch!




 
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Apologies for the lateness folks - there was Much Working yesterday, and it didn't wind down until about 12:30 am. :O

But it's a new day. And time for a check in!

First, a loud hello! across the balcony to the artists / vidders signed up so far! The signups post went up a few days ago. Now is the time to bring out those ideas for capturing the... well, Ladness of the lads (and maybe even Cowley, for good measure). Any questions about signing up can be sent to the mods.

Also, for you writers - howzit going? Hopefully better than I am, LOL (no words since March - but I signed up for something else in the meantime). I do need to go to the vet in a bit, though (= sit in the car for a while), so am hopeful something will be done while I wait. (Even with the work conference call on in the car... LOL.)

Let us know! So we can shake a pompom or two your way in support.
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
ARTISTS AND VIDDERS - SIGN UPS START MAY 1!!

So warm up your computers, tune up your software, gather those screen caps and film clips and join the fun of the 2020 Big Bang! More information coming in a few days.

And writers - how's it going? Have our lads irritated Cowley enough? Have the baddies been rounded up? Has Doyle had his brood; Bodie his Swiss roll? Have they had enough between-the-sheets-time? Let us know!
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
How do you fair? Do you lose track of the days? I'm quite sure that Bodie and Doyle would be boffing like bunnies . . . but how are the rest of you coping?

Here's hoping that you are writing furiously or furious that you aren't writing enough. Either way let us know.

We are here. . .really, we are!!
[identity profile] boothros.livejournal.com
Happy April Fools Day!






Everyone knows Bodie and Doyle like to play the fool on occasion and only a fool would not want to be part of the 2020 Box of Tricks Pro's Big Bang!

Here's hoping you're all keeping well and those that are currently writing are managing to use this horrid time of enforced isolation to get down and dirty with your stories. And DO please, let us know how you are all getting on as you know we love to hear about your progress.

Take care everyone. Stay safe, stay sane and keep on Big Bangin'! xx
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Are you still sitting near that instrument of chaos, now knowing that it's not the keyboard's fault that you're pulling out what little hair you have left. . .

No, it's the beta's fault. . . I mean I sent in a whole bunch of words. . . a lot of them, really, but she sent it back, and she must have bled on it - there was a lot, and I mean a lot of red all over it!

11 words was all I could keep, not even the title, which was probably a valid point as it said title to be determined.

But come on. . . why are they so picky about commas, periods and for heavens's sake, quotation marks, you'd think I had committed hairy-carey!

So while I did have a lot of words typed, I had to cut them down to practically nothing - my beta made me do it.

How are you all doing?


O BTW - I really love my beta
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Allo!

It's that time again... BB Check-In Time!

And how are you doing, BBers?

Really, I got nuthin' today. The world is crazy and folks are hoarding cat littler now (don't get me started). But there's always the lads to cheer things up.

SO - how are they?
  • Is Doyle trapped under a mountain of illegally stockpiled loo paper?

  • Has Bodie been sent out in a race with the clock to find a bottle of hand sanitizer for less than £75?

  • And what does social distancing do to their relationship? (Wah.)

Don't despair; this too shall eventually end. In the meantime you can let us know what travails your lads are running into.

And, more seriously (because I don't want to downplay this but the hoarding is out of control) know that we're all here for each other, and we will all get through this. Stupid governments or not.

* Okay, not doing too well with leaving the politics out of it. But still. S>:-(
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[identity profile] krisserci5.livejournal.com
Hi All!!!

Are you sitting at your or near the instrument of chaos? Sitting there knowing its the reason, the only reason you signed up, it made you do it, and are now pondering how to dispose of it and make the rest of us believe that it was an accident or, better yet, an act of god. . . lightening, perhaps.

There may be folks sitting happily typing away . . .sigh.

I know which group I am in, how about you?
[identity profile] golden-bastet.livejournal.com
Hullo, folks!

Well, the SS CI5 has gotten underway, and the words are beginning to come together. Or not; it's early yet, it's possible you're fussing at the ending of Sanditon* soaking in your Pros vibes and getting your story thoughts in order. No problem either way!

So, how is it going? Are the lads behaving? Are the lads *not* behaving? (Much more interesting, IMO.) Anything you need feedback on, a kind word about, or just a chance to update? This is the place to celebrate / commiserate / just generally hang out.

Glad to have you aboard, and welcome to the Box of Tricks cruise! Here, have a little umbrella with your drink.

* Just ended in the U.S. And for what it's worth, I liked the ending of Sanditon - it was a little more realistic than normal. But if they get a second season, that'll get fixed. *snort*

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February 1: Writer sign ups begin
March 1: Writer sign ups close
May 1: Artist sign ups begin
May 31: Artist sign ups close
July 1: Writers’ rough drafts (6,600 words minimum)/full outlines due. Story summaries also due
July 9: Artist Claims Day. Artists will claim stories based on anonymous story summaries, first come, first served
September 23: Final stories (10,000 words minimum) and artwork/vids due
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