December Monthly Post

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is the December community post for allbingo. What were your bingo activities during November? What are your plans for December?

For November we had:
NCIS Fest hosted by fuzzyred
Posting will be November 1-30.

For December we will have:
Amnesty Bingo Fest
Winter Fest
hosted by siberian_skys 
Posting will be December 1-31.

Lexember hosted by ysabetwordsmith 
Invent words for a conlang, or learn words in a natural language.
Posting will be December 1-31.


The Community Calendar 2022 is now up, with a good start on fests.  You can see we're starting to stack recurring fests with new ones.  If you'd like to run a fest, just comment on that post with your topic and preferred month.

Comments

[siberian_skys]

I managed to get a blackout for the NCIS Fest in Nov. For Dec. I'm hoping for a bingo in both the Lexember and the Winter Fest. Fortunately, I don't have to take part in the Amnesty since I, by some miracle, I am caught-up on my bingo cards. As you mentioned, I'm also hosting both Amnesty and Winter Fest. I'm going to try and get those up tonight.

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>I managed to get a blackout for the NCIS Fest in Nov.<<

That's quite an accomplishment.

Re: Go you!

[siberian_skys]

I'd never written in that fandom even though I've watched it for its whole run. I deleted the first attempt.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Always save what you write, even if you think it sucks. You might have an idea to reuse it later.

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[siberian_skys]

That's very good advice.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I've been a writer for a very long time, and I've known many others. So I've picked up a lot. Sometimes you can make a new thing from old scraps. Other times, you want to see how far you've come and it's useful to have things to look back on. Or you rewrite one sections for a third or fourth time, and realize that version 2 of a different section goes with it better, so if you haven't kept the earlier ones then you have to try reconstructing it.

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[siberian_skys]

I used some of the elements from the story that I deleted in the finished product.

[silvercat17]

I'm hoping to finish the Untranslatable Words bingo from 2019, and maybe one more?

Go for it!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That sounds like a good plan.

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[silvercat17]

Hey, would it be inappropriate to promote JustCreate.dreamwidth.org here? It's designed for sharing creative stuff that's in progress with weekly check-ins

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Go ahead. You might suggest how that could interact with Bingo cards -- for instance, if you're trying to make blackout or working on a longfic.

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[silvercat17]

Absolutely. We have a few commenters on Just Create that regularly do challenges and stuff for other communities, so it'd be nice to get more crossover over here.

I'll mention the current and upcoming All Bingo events in this week's Just Create post.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

We've done cross-promotion with compatible communities in the past, mostly other bingo comms, occasionally something else. You can see the lists on the community profile page. Might Just Create like to be listed there?

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[silvercat17]

I'd be totally thrilled by that.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Do you have a link to the community?

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[silvercat17]

Of course. https://justcreate.dreamwidth.org/

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I have added justcreate to the Affiliated Communities list for allbingo.

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[silvercat17]

Thanks. I added Allbingo on Just Create's. :)

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Yay! :D