Inaugural Post!
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writercon_ukHello and welcome.
WriterCon UK is spreading its wings and exploring new pastures. That's a mixed metaphor, but we hope you'll look past that, and look instead at our brilliant new mirror comm for the WriterCon UK Live Journal community.
What is WriterCon UK?
We're interested in celebrating and improving all areas of our creative endeavours inside transformative works based on television series, books, or movies. In other words: we are fanfic writers, fan artists, fan crafters, fan betas, and anyone who is interested in these or related processes.
With its origins in the Joss Wheedon's Buffy-verse (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, & Angel) many members share an interest in these particular fandoms, but WriterCon has since expanded its interests as members discovered new fandoms, or brought old ones along to share with new friends.
WriterCon UK now covers any fandom enthusiastically embraced by any of its members - Supernatural, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, Merlin, Final Fantasy...
Members are encouraged to post to the community with their own fic, banners, icons, pictures of their craft, and anything else related to fan creativity.
Don't feel shy if you're new to WriterCon, or even to fandom. We're a friendly bunch, and all very relaxed and informal. You won't find too many airs and graces here.
What is the WriterCon UK Event?
At the moment WriterCon UK members gather once a year at The Event, to share insights and strategies that have worked for us in creating, to boost our creativity, and to generally have a laugh and connect over food and drinks.
The Event takes place around August, but dates do vary from year to year, and runs from a Friday evening to the Sunday afternoon. Currently the venue for this is the Ramada Coventry; more details can be found in the yearly registration posts.
There may also be some slight squeeing over various characters, but we try and keep that to a minimum. However excruciating double entendres abound, so consider yourself warned...
Mini-meets are sometimes held for an afternoon, whenever someone gets around to organising them :-D
Why a mirror comm?
The folk at Live Journal have been lovely and provided us with many an entertaining moment, but there have been concerns of late about access to the communities there.
So the WriterCon UK Event committee took the step of setting up this comm to provide access during any future down time over at Live Journal.
We also wanted to cast our net a bit wider in the hopes of finding new people with whom to share our enthusiasm for the creative sides of fandom.
We hope you'll join us for the fun!
WriterCon UK is spreading its wings and exploring new pastures. That's a mixed metaphor, but we hope you'll look past that, and look instead at our brilliant new mirror comm for the WriterCon UK Live Journal community.
We're interested in celebrating and improving all areas of our creative endeavours inside transformative works based on television series, books, or movies. In other words: we are fanfic writers, fan artists, fan crafters, fan betas, and anyone who is interested in these or related processes.
With its origins in the Joss Wheedon's Buffy-verse (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, & Angel) many members share an interest in these particular fandoms, but WriterCon has since expanded its interests as members discovered new fandoms, or brought old ones along to share with new friends.
WriterCon UK now covers any fandom enthusiastically embraced by any of its members - Supernatural, Lord Of The Rings, Harry Potter, Merlin, Final Fantasy...
Members are encouraged to post to the community with their own fic, banners, icons, pictures of their craft, and anything else related to fan creativity.
Don't feel shy if you're new to WriterCon, or even to fandom. We're a friendly bunch, and all very relaxed and informal. You won't find too many airs and graces here.
At the moment WriterCon UK members gather once a year at The Event, to share insights and strategies that have worked for us in creating, to boost our creativity, and to generally have a laugh and connect over food and drinks.
The Event takes place around August, but dates do vary from year to year, and runs from a Friday evening to the Sunday afternoon. Currently the venue for this is the Ramada Coventry; more details can be found in the yearly registration posts.
There may also be some slight squeeing over various characters, but we try and keep that to a minimum. However excruciating double entendres abound, so consider yourself warned...
Mini-meets are sometimes held for an afternoon, whenever someone gets around to organising them :-D
The folk at Live Journal have been lovely and provided us with many an entertaining moment, but there have been concerns of late about access to the communities there.
So the WriterCon UK Event committee took the step of setting up this comm to provide access during any future down time over at Live Journal.
We also wanted to cast our net a bit wider in the hopes of finding new people with whom to share our enthusiasm for the creative sides of fandom.
We hope you'll join us for the fun!
