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I feel like a "FLAIL I FINISHED AND HANDED IN MY BIG BANG DRAFT" post is in order!!

Bigbangers, HOW DID YOU ALL GO?

What was your final word count? (Me, I got to 33,685.)

Were you rushing like hell to get it finished (*raises hand!*), or were you super organised and had everything ready to hand in on or before the due date? Or did you have to drop out at the last minute because you realised you wouldn't be able to get it all done in time? (That was me, too, almost. I almost lost heart a few times and if it wasn't for people who encouraged me to keep going, I'd probably wouldn't have finished. I owe those people so many thanks, it's not funny.)

How many of you are ready to collapse from writing like crazy to meet the deadline?

CAN I SAY FLAIL. FLAIL. SHARE YOUR FLAIL. Are you happy with how your fic came together? Did you find your fic frustrating or easy(ish) to write? Was it a story you'd had plotting in your mind for a long while, or was it something that you came up with as you wrote? Talk about how you went; if you panicked, if you felt confident you'd finish the story, if you reached any spots where you got stuck on your story, if you scrapped entire scenes (or even entire fics??), anything!

Share your big bang journey! (I know this is just the first draft we're talking about, but that's the toughest hurdle overcome, I say!)

Edit: Aaand... seeing there's still a fair way to go before Big Bang actually goes live, how do you feel about the editing and fine-tuning ahead of you? Got a beta? Think you'll be able to edit relatively smoothly? Think maybe you'll end up tearing your hair out?

(TOO MANY QUESTIONS, ahahaha)

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FLAIL FLAIL FLAIL

Wow Ticcy well done! & 33K words awesome!!!!

I was organised enough to hand mine in the day before, all 25,881 words of it. But I might not have done if I hadn't been off work all this week. I'm supposed to be on study leave working on my PhD thesis ARGH! *chews furniture at thought*

YES I am happy with it, although thank God we have another month to edit. I very much wrote it as I went along. Also, the ending turned out completely sappy which was not what I envisaged at the start at all... will be interested to see what my beta makes of it. Fic is already more than half beta'd, again thank God.

This is the second year I've done a crime fiction crossover written from the crossover's POV. Memo to self: DO NOT TRY THIS AGAIN NEXT YEAR. TOO MUCH HARD WORK. ALSO, LOTS OF PEOPLE WON'T KNOW THE CROSS AND WON'T READ IT. AND, YOU'LL NEVER GET AN ARTIST. FAIL FAIL FAIL

*goes off to try & do some actual study*

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Also, the ending turned out completely sappy which was not what I envisaged at the start at all...

I can say you are not alone in that, my ending is the king AND queen of sappiness.