Box of Tricks

Hi everyone, just a quick check in from me this week.

Thought I would share a couple of links. First to lots of articles about writing and then to the grammar girl site.

And as I don't have much to add this week, here have a pic of the lads *g*.



Other than that this is your chance to let us know how you are doing with your story/artwork/vid, ask any questions, and just generally chat away.

Hi everyone. Time for the weekly check in and it is just a quick one this week as I know all the writers are taking lots of deep breaths and relaxing after getting their rough drafts in, and the artists and vidders are getting geared up to stake their claims very soon.

So I thought I would just share a few links to resources I’ve found useful and/or interesting at various points.

UK Number One hits from the UK Singles Chart - use the drop down menus to take a look at the years.

Footy Facts: results, stats and records - have found this useful for research in the past.

History of lesbian, gay and bisexual equality - timeline from Stonewall.

So do you have any really useful resources that you’d like to share, or is there anything you would like to find out about that a comm member might be able to help with?

Hi everyone. Time for the weekly check in and as usual I am jumping all around the place something my work colleagues are starting to find a little annoying *g* so I have slightly random post for you.

First, while I am sure everyone knows about this, I just wanted to link to the transcripts page over at The Hatstand. These are always a massive help to me when I am thinking about matching things up with the episodes.

Second I wanted to highlight the LJ comm little_details which helps writers with the research and fact checking. Well worth looking through the old posts here as well as potentially posting as the comm is watched by a large number of LJ users.

Next some Tips to Increase Writing Productivity and Hints and Tips for Distraction Free Writing. This is something I desperately need as I keep letting myself get distracted by the phone, the TV, spring cleaning, staring at the wall, everything *hangs head in shame*.

And lastly a bit of fun, how about a couple title generators to help you think of a title for your story, Title-o-matic and Random Book Title Generator. Clicking a few times gave me the options of: Haze Moccasin, Crystalline Blue, Icewater Series, Snow in the Memory, Hard Consort, and Stray Dog Kiss. *grins*.

Anyway now is your chance to check in and let us know how you are getting on, ask any questions, tell us that the suggested title Haze Moccasin fits your work perfectly, and so on.

Hi everyone and welcome to the second check in post *waves*.

And as the deadline for the writers sign up looms ever closer, less than a week now, let me start this post off by giving you the links to all the sign up posts and doing lots of encouraging pom pom waving *g*:

Writers sign up post
Artists and vidders sign up post
Beta sign up post
Cheerleader sign up post

Secondly I thought I would post a few of my favourite, but rather random, links in the hope that you find something useful/interesting/incredibly distracting in them. And in the name of distracting my first link is to:

TV Tropes

This is a ridiculously addictive website that may also spark the odd idea or two for a story.

Next we have an article in The Guardian which has various writers listing their:

Ten rules for writing fiction.

My third link is to 750 words, an online tool that gets you into the habit of writing 750 words a day.

750 words

And for my final link I thought we would go for some sex *cough*. Well a link to one author’s guidelines for writing sex:

Writing Sex by Steve Almond

And lastly, as always, please chat about anything you like, ask us questions, and let us know how we can persuade bribe/blackmail you into signing up.