Support Thread, Round Lucky 13! :D

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

Hello, fellow Hikago fans! As you've probably seen, sign ups for round 13 of blind_go  have arrived, and you guys know what that means: lots and lots of flailing, starting now! For anyone new to our challenge here, this is the place we come to flail, cry, procrastinate, plot, ask and answer questions, and support each other.

Anonymouse is encouraged, especially if there could be clues to your fic, but obviously isn't required, and comments will be screened during the guessing period just in case.

Writers: Complaints about lack of progress, procrastinating, requests for ideas, and more are all awesome.

Readers: You guys are more than welcome to participate too! Leave your reassurances, fanfic ideas, and helpful random spam here.

Comments

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

FLDKGHDS;LFGKHSDF;LGHDS;LFGKHDSK;FGHDS;FGHSD;KFJGHDFSKJ;GHDFSKJ;GHSDKJFGHD

THE BUNNIES, THEY WON'T STOP BITING.

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

*gives band-aids*

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

SOMEONE PLEASE WRITE A SPY AU FOR BG. KTHNXBAI.

[degrees.livejournal.com]

...lol wait weren't we talking about tha last night? XDDD

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

YES, YES WE WERE.

[degrees.livejournal.com]

If someone actually ends up writing it, I will be giddy with... giddiness.

clearly I have a way with words.

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

That will be helpful for BG. XDDD

[degrees.livejournal.com]

ANOTHER IDEA

now stick with me on this

BOARDING SCHOOL AU

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

THIS. THIS THIS THIS. GUNDAM WING FUSION Y/Y?

[degrees.livejournal.com]

YYYYYYYY

[troisroyaumes]

+10000000000

[and-by-the-tree.livejournal.com]

Uh hi, guess I'll be joining this round...? Please treat me kindly XD

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

Welcome welcome! <3 I don't know you and that means HUZZAH, A NEW PERSON!

We are ridiculously friendly~! How did you find us? :D

[and-by-the-tree.livejournal.com]

Haha yeah, new person :) Uh, I found Blind Go from tumblr hahaha /flees

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, you're who Pye mentioned. XDDDDD

Enjoy yourself~! BG is the best thing EVER!

[and-by-the-tree.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, it seems like my reputation for being a derp has preceded me LOLOLOL. But uh, I guess so? I'll do my best to enjoy myself, haha.

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

I'm joining this round as new, too! We can, uhm, be new together. Or something. |:

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

Newbies unite! \o Welcome all!

[and-by-the-tree.livejournal.com]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay~!

(actually has no idea on what being new together entails lol)

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

Sucking at go, I suppose...? Uh'unno either. [/shrug]

[troisroyaumes]

Flailing. Flailing like there's no tomorrow.

Well, okay, at least I know what to write this time.

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

*Flails with you*

[troisroyaumes]

Guys, I haven't started writing. Please say I'm not the only one!

[verysanguinary.livejournal.com]

I keep getting bunnied on everything except anything that would be suitable for the BG theme >< Every time I write another 1000 words on something completely unrelated a tiny part of me dies :sob:

[troisroyaumes]

Ahaha, I'm probably going to interpret the theme...very loosely, let me just say. >_>;;

(There will be characters remembering things at least? XD)

[verysanguinary.livejournal.com]

Bam! And you're totally set <3

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

CRUNCH TIME GUYS. ANYONE FREAKING OUT LIKE ME? KJGHKDFGHDKJGHDG

[verysanguinary.livejournal.com]

THIS STORY JUST KEEPS GETTING LONGER AND THEN WHO GAVE ME THE BRIGHT IDEA TO GET MARRIED AND HAVE HOUSEGUESTS AAAARGH THIS IS MY LAST NIGHT OF FREEDOM

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

YOU'LL HAVE TO SQUEEZE IN SECRET WRITING TIME ON YOUR PHONE~! <3

[verysanguinary.livejournal.com]

That's the plan, actually >< GAH THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE AMAZINGLY EPIC VERY~!

[verysanguinary.livejournal.com]

AHHHH THANK YOU FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT LISH NOW I CAN'T POSSIBLY LET THE HOSTILECRAYON DOWN NO PRESSURE

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

YOU COULD NEVER LET ME DOWN. <3

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

YOU COULD NEVER LET ME DOWN. <3

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

AHHHHHHHHHH /o\

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

Being there is now just over 24 hours left (I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL MAKE IT, GUYS), have a kick-you-in-the-face article about writer's block by Chuck Wendig: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2011/07/19/25-ways-to-defeat-the-dreaded-writers-block/

NOW WRITE, AND PANIC, AND WRITE SOME MORE. DO IT. DO IT NOW.

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

That was hilariously awesome. Thanks for the link!

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

This one is SO ME:

Kill The Shiny
As modern souls we are besieged by distractions. Text messages and tweets and spam-bots and porn and TV-on-demand and cyber-LSD and digital cupcakes and only the gods know what else. Escape the gravity of your own distractions. Turn it off. Power it down. Use a program like Mac Freedom or Write Or Die. Close the door on all the piffling, waffling, middling bullshit and make sure it’s just you and the word count.

Also the notation about carbs explains SO MUCH.

[hostilecrayon.livejournal.com]

Mmm, shiny. <3

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, I have not yet written word one. 21 hours to deadline, and I'm going to start... but it don't look good. SIGHS. Let's see... word one... will be... He? His?? Ack!!

Panic........................!!!

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

You can do it, Anon! WE BELIEVE IN YOOOOOOOOOU!

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

Uh, so, can anyone help me? I have never used just .txt for whatever reason. So before I send off my submission, do I have to use the tags for line breaks, too? Do I put in the "br / " tag?

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

LJ recognizes the enter key as a break tag- so as long as you're doing that, you'll be fine. That being said, I would highly recommend copypasting the html in LJ or DW's html editor to double check in rich text that everything's on the up and up and that you didn't miss anything.

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I took your suggestion, and I believe it works fine.

(Of course, there's always that nervous doubt you get in your stomach when doing such a thing for the first time.)

[verloren1983.livejournal.com]

No problem. Just remember, even if you DID miss something, the mods can fix it. When they put up the post giving us the fics, there will be an option to put an auto-screened comment on there to poke at them for things like, "Whoops, messed up this tag in x fic, I meant y, can I get it fixed pretty pleeeeease when someone gets a chance? Thanks!" I once forgot to end an italics tag near the beginning of a fic, so pretty much the ENTIRE thing was in italics. ^_^;;; Soooooooo... it happens.

My point is, I'm sure you're fine, but even if there's a mistake somewhere, it's not a big deal. So you can relax a little. :D

[rex-sun.livejournal.com]

Oh thank you, yes, that is very reassuring! Golly, blind go is such a friendly, helpful community. (: