Cotton Candy Bingo - Who'll join me?

[bk_forever]

So glad that I decided not to sign up for trope bingo - this is much more my style!

Cotton Candy Bingo
a bingo for all things warm and fuzzy
cottoncandy_bingo

Comments

[bk_forever]

I'm practising writing stories made up of drabbles at the moment. Done several with 5 or 6 drabbles, one with 10, and I'm working on one that could be longer. It's quite an economical way of writing. They'll be posted as complete stories. Who knows, maybe some that are already written but not posted will fit some of the squares on my bingo card!

I'm not aiming for a blackout on my first try (would be nice, but it's a bit ambitious), I'll try for a line or two, depending on my prompts and how they're laid out on my bingo card.

Thank you! Idea-bouncing will probably come in useful, as would any information and advice on posting to bingo communities and figuring out the posting templates. My mind is boggling a bit. Do I just post fics to my journal as I write them and then make a post at the bingo community linking to the fics once I have a line? Really not sure how it works o_O

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're correct--you can post the fics to your journal (and anywhere else you like) as you write them, but you don't post anything at the bingo comm until you have completed all the lines you're going to make. Then you post the information about your fics, along with the links to them, at the comm using the posting template they give you. It's a simple cut-and-paste job; not nearly as complicated as it sounds. :)

[bk_forever]

So I wait until I've written everything I can and then post at the community, rather than doing a separate post for each completed line?

If I get stuck, I'll yell for help, lol!

Thank you!

I'll also want to put my bingo card on my journal and fill it in as I go. It'll keep me (hopefully) from forgetting and duplicating squares. Any idea how that's done?

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

I took a look at their rules and it seems like you can post when you have one bingo, and then post again when you have another. So if you completed a straight line bingo you could post it, and then post again when you completed another.

You do know there are other types of bingos available than straight lines, right? You might decided to go for one of those instead, depending on your prompts.

You can also go for "extras" after you've completed a bingo, which are fills for certain combinations of squares, that get you extra points. Those you can post as you go along, after you post your first bingo.

Posting the card isn't to your journal isn't difficult. If they do what Hurt/Comfort bingo did, they'll give you the code that generates your card, and you just copy/paste it into a post. Once it's posted, you should be able to use the "insert strikethrough" button on the editing tab to cross off the prompts as you fill them.

[bk_forever]

Thanks, lots of good tips there!

Yes, I took a look at the scoring and saw they seem to have just about every possible combination covered, from a diamond shape, to all atound the edge of the card, to various diagonals and blocks... The variety of ways you can get a bingo is staggering, lol! I have a feeling my card might resemble a patchwork quilt by the time I'm finished. Not that I HAVE a card yet, sign-ups are on the first of Feb, I believe.