January Community Post

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is the allbingo community post for January, 2014.  What were your bingo activities during the past month?  What are your plans for February?

It's been an exciting first month here.  We currently have four affiliated communities, crosslinked with cottoncandy_bingo, genprompt_bingo, ladiesbingo, and origfic_bingo.  According to our profile, we have 66 interests and 35 subscribers.  Several folks have already posted introductions; more would be welcome.  Somewhat more people have gotten bingo cards.  Yay, progress!

Remember that cottoncandy_bingo is scheduled to reopen on February 1.  Stand by to get your cards!

Also, allbingo is hosting a Bingo Valentines fest from February 1-21.  Play with a card from any suitable community or make your own.  Would you like to team up with someone else?  Post a comment asking for interested partners.  Fests like this are especially fun when folks link up art/writing/other goodies featuring the same characters.

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My Bingo Activities

[ysabetwordsmith]

I just got a new card from origfic_bingo today. I also have a trope_bingo card from 1-2-14. You can see all my bingo cards on my blog.

I am eagerly awaiting the return of cottoncandy_bingo tomorrow. This was my first and favorite fest, so I can hardly wait to get a fresh card. My audience loved the stuff I wrote for it the first time.

The cards from origfic_bingo and cottoncandy_bingo are what I plan to play in the Bingo Valentines fest. I usually write poetry for my fills. Is anyone planning to make art? I'd enjoy having any of my work illustrated and/or writing poetry for someone else's images.

I also have my monthly Poetry Fishbowl coming up on February 4 with a theme of "Love." That runs in my Dreamwidth and LiveJournal blogs, so you can catch it in either place. I've been mixing bingo prompts with other prompts that I get from my audience.

[chordatesrock]

During the last month, I posted a longfic for ladiesbingo.

I have a genprompt_bingo card already, but haven't filled any squares yet.

Next month, I'd like to do cottoncandy_bingo.

[carriemac]

I didn't get much writing done for January due to an extra-heavy workload.

I have half-finished stories for Trope Bingo and Ladies' Bingo, so I'd like to finish those up. I signed up for Cotton Candy Bingo and think the Bingo Valentines fest sounds fun, but there are so many other fests and exchanges going on now--Porn Battle, Femslash February, and so on--that I'm not sure how much I'll actually get done!

It's too bad we can't generate a special 3x3 card for Bingo Valentines instead of a full card!

[annariel]

I didn't do any writing in January (apart from the weekly primeval100 drabble challenge. However that was really because I had a big stack of tasks left undone from November and December when I was working frantically on Yuletide and fandom_stocking stuff. I have posted something almost every day in January which goes to show how much I was producing for those fests and I still have a stack more stuff to go posting wise.

I have managed to get most of the backend programming done to turn my various online prompt generators into something that it is easy to extend and adapt and I'm hoping to get that all finished up next week with some sort of not-exactly-crowdfunding but certainly a points and incentive based scheme to encourage people to use and contribute.

Meanwhile primeval_denial starts a "PriWriMo" month today which means I need to post the latest set of bingo prompts and a sign-up card for them. I'm also hoping to get a feedback post for ladiesbingo up this weekend.

At some point I want to sit down and plan out the sort of things I'd like to write this year. I definitely want to write some Sapphire and Steel and some Avengers, but I'd also like to get back into Doctor Who writing (I ended up with a Who based prompt for Yuletide (I know, but Who has a host of tiny spin off fandoms) and I really enjoyed writing it). I want to overhaul my original fiction settings and there a couple of Primeval things I'd like to take a stab at. So, yeah, sit down and actually think about priorities for it all.

One thing I'd like to do, because I'm aware there are a good number of original fiction writers in this community and in the bingo communities as a whole is offer some kind of incentive and achievement for original fiction recs for works which form good "jumping off" points for people's settings. I find it quite difficult to get into original fiction settings and to engage with short stories and vignettes in long running settings "cold" as it were. It would be nice to tie the rec achievement in with a bingo challenge in some way but I'm not quite sure the form it should take. I must ponder... I suppose it needn't be restricted to original fiction it could be a "no background knowledge needed" rec challenge - I've actually often vaguely considered starting a community aimed at "no background knowledge needed" recs.

Err... anyway writing this while I run a bath since I've just got back from a rather muddy "parkrun" race though thankfully the skies were clear and blue but the puddles were still large. So I shall go an see how that is doing and come back here later.

[lilly_c]

I wrote four fills for my genprompt_bingo card and have three of them to post and I also posted two fills for my first cottoncandy_bingo card and have one to post, that's on my to-do today list. I'm waiting for my new cottoncandy_bingo card to be made. Can't wait to see what prompts I get this time.

The majority of my writing time in January was on my kidficstory big bang. Thankfully it's now finished and almost ready for posting with only the editing to do, it's with my beta now so until I get it back from them I can't do too much with it.

At the moment my only plans for February are to get final edits done on my big bang so that it's ready to post on my assigned day and to work on some more bingo fills and maybe use some of my unused prompts from other challenges too.