March 2021 - Day 1

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

FYI: I'll put up the daily posts between 6 and 8pm, CET, each day. The exact posting time might vary due to RL issues. My apologies.

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[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Just dropping by quickly today because I have actually been doing some of the things I was hoping to do:

Pros BB — not written anything more (and can't speak much about what I have written because the rules require I keep the plot under wraps) — but found a useful poem from an unexpected source that chimes with one of my minor plot points.

Move story — working on this right now, fourth chapter in. I'm giving it a light re-edit as I go to improve the use of punctuation. I was actually looking for a poem to illustrate this story when I ran across the useful BB poem. Still not found quite the right one for this story, so may give up...

MFU WIP — so, I don't want to give too much away because spoilers — but this is one of a few stories I've written without direct speech — I think this will be by far the longest. Be interesting to see how it goes down when I post, which I'm very much hoping I will have done, or be very close to doing, at the end of this Pico.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Congratulations to having work done and good luck with the WIP!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

You have a good many irons in the fire. When does the Pros BB explode? I haven't ever seen the show, but I have meant to do so for years. I should see if it's streaming somewhere.

Move story — not sure at all what a Move story is.

MFU WIP — this is the only fandom I've written for, so I am particularly interested in this:) How long of a story are you thinking it will be? I do look forward to seeing it, and how it works without direct speech.

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Pross BB explodes in October — it's an annual event (as you'd probably supposed). The 'half way' point is 1st July when you have to submit a draft of what you have so far — the MODs like to see evidence of progress! — and an idea of where your story is going. You then get matched with an artist, and after that you work together to bring the whole thing home by 23rd September when you are given your October posting date.

There's two really good places to hang out for The Professionals (apart from my journal!), but seriously — the Lj community teaandswissroll, which I've never found to be less than friendly and Dave Matthews Authorised Guide (http://www.mark-1.co.uk/Professionals/)

As well as the usual suspects the CI5 Circuit Archive (https://www.thecircuitarchive.com/), a creaky but belovèd site, is full of stories — and the crack_van has vids as well

It's a late seventies/early eighties show — loads of eps on YouTube (https://www.google.com/search?biw=1536&bih=722&tbm=vid&ei=KPM9YPi9EJKV1fAPlte2gAU&q=the+professionals+episodes&oq=the+professionals+epsi&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i13k1l10.22018.23416.0.25921.5.5.0.0.0.0.142.487.3j2.5.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.484...0j0i67k1j0i13i30k1j0i8i13i30k1.0.fcy_JevXG7o) — it ran to 57 all told — it's often cited as an unintentional time capsule as it caught the UK just on the cusp of major changes. Clearly it's a show dear to my heart, but if you like sash, it's also famous for some of the best slash stories in fandom. Those of us who write Gen (as well as slash or exclusively) are ploughing a lonelier furrow, but we do exist!

'Hunter Hunted' is often cited as one of the best intro eps — 'The Gun' is not its finest hour. Although I have written in defence of it!

'Move story' is from my first comment this Pico (see prev post) — I have been trying for ages to move an eleven chapter story from FF.net (for which it is too explicit) to AO3.

MFU WIP — good question! I hadn't counted, so now I have — it's around 9.5k at the moment, and it's nearly finished, so I expect it will come in at 10 to 12k.

I have a number of other MFU WIP in the offing (I do a 'Kapusta' post to my journal periodically saying where I'm at with things — 'Mr Kapusta' is an Lj character — one of my end of year Lj 'round up' messages featured a quote from Mr Kapusta). So next Pico, I may be writing about one of them!

[akane42me.livejournal.com]

There a couple of folks I know (and now you too!) from LJ who write in the Pro fandom. I've read some stories and enjoyed them even though I am not familiar with the show. Thanks for letting me know I can find eps on You Tube. Will put it on my TV watch list! Your Pro BB is on ci5_boxoftricks? Elmey used that as a model for for the MFU50 BB several years ago. Best of luck with the draft for the July deadline!

[fiorenza-a.livejournal.com]

Yep, ci5_boxoftricks — so if you wanted to see it explode that's where to go (past years are also archived in the collection on AO3) 😊

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

That all sounds like progress - even if words as such didn't get done, you've cleared the way for it.