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[spoopy.livejournal.com]

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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I'm technically on lj hiatus, but I love bigbang so I dropped by to see if there were any post-duedate posts. <3333

I WAS A BIG, OVER-PREPARED DUMBASS. I'M SORRY. I helped turn in two fic, one with the help of the lovely anna_bm, and the other on my own. :D

The cowritten one (~25,000 words) we finished a rough draft... shit, back in October, I think? But it only got edited recently. It still needs revising. And I still think we were crazy for writing it (THE PREMISE, I'M TELLING YOU, THE PREMISE) and are crazy for sharing it, but!!!! Obviously sanity is not a requirement for bigbang. ^__^ I'm worried about getting out the last of the typos/stupid mistakes. And, uh, about it being massively stupid. *cringes*

The other fic (~36,000) took me longer because I kept getting interrupted by rl (alkjfaldjf) and my own hang-ups. But I did have have a first draft done ~Jan 2nd. I am, by turns, massively proud and hateful of it. (That's pretty typical of my brand of writerly angst. :D) I tackled some new things with it-- threesome and 1st person pov-- so I'm glad on at least that much. It's good to try new things!

I am scared of editing. Editing will eat me while I sleep. Editing will devour me during the day. I shall be slain by editing. D: ...I think one of my concerns on that front is that I've yet to find a beta who will spank me viciously hard on what needs fixing, so I've been waffling about making major changes. Which isn't to say that my betas aren't awesome-- because they are! ♥-- but I feel uncomfortable when I don't get a lot of criticism/suggestions.

Anyway. ♥ Congrats to everyone that finished, I can't wait to see your stories and the art to go with it! Good luck editing! And to everyone who didn't make the deadline, I wish you luck in finishing those fic soon. ♥

[beeinmybonnet.livejournal.com]

THE PREMISE IS WONDERFUL, SHUT UP. ♥ (Do you remember that I gave you a list with five different ideas/premises for the fic we were about to write? You immediatly scrapped all ideas but the last one, which I had come up with half-awake, unsatisfied that there only were four items on the list. XD;; Even numbers are evil, you see.)

And you're silly. :P Not getting much critism means the fic is good. Gods, woman. ♥

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(*whistles, negates any memory of this ever happening*)

I WILL ALWAYS WAIT FOR THE CRITICISM TO LEAP OUT FROM THE BUSHES. IT'S GONNA HAPPEN, I TELL YOU. IT'S THERE WITH ITS TWITCHING TAILS AND PERKED EARS, WAITING FOR THE RIGHT MOMENT.

[oldblue.livejournal.com]

If you want to be spanked, you should just say so ;)

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Spank me harder, baby. ;)

(Though I'll also need to know what's working in the fic! :D)