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This is a plea as the treasurer of the UK WriterCon group!

If you are thinking of coming to meet up in Coventry in September, but haven't quite decided, could you possible let me/us know that you are a possible?

This is because we have to start buying goody-bag stuff - and I need a rough idea of how many of each (new and exciting) thing to buy!

Also we need a rough idea of how many people to organise the sweeties for... It would be terrible if we underestimated and ran out.

So - if you've been meaning to sign up, but not quite got around for it - here is the sign-up post; you don't have to pay right away, either.

And if you just want to say 'I might be coming', leave a comment here, or send me a message or whatever works for you.

And finally; [personal profile] hobbituk says she will be driving up from somewhere in the Greater London area (you'll have to ask her where - I'm a bit vague about it I fear), and will happily give anyone* who contacts her a lift.

*Well - until her car is full, anyway!
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I have an apology to make - I realise, looking back over notes from the last committee meeting, in June, that as I was the person most able to make a post, I was meant to do this then.

Re Committee Membership;

[personal profile] daiseechain has decided to step down from her post as Secretary at the AGM in August, This means that she needs to be replaced this year.

[personal profile] gillo & I would be very happy to also step down, as we will have served for longer than previous committee members, should anyone want to take over as either Chairperson or Treasurer We are, otherwise, giving a full year's notice that we will step down at the AGM in 2014.
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I have both the Bad!Sex Scene and the Bad!Death Scene pieces written in Coventry, but I can't track down a copy of the Bad!Romance Scene. It seems best to post them in the correct order - so if you happen to have a copy of the Bad!Romance it would be excellent if you either posted it here, or passed it on to me to go with the other two, and then we can have all three on the community for posterity.

If no-one can track it down I will go ahead and post the other two anyway - probably at the weekend, maybe next week.
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Just over 3 weeks until Coventry now!

As has become traditional, everyone will get a 'raffle number' in their goody-bags. This is the reminder that we need prizes!

Got any odd fandom things you don't want any more? We've had books, T-shirts, posters, Spike action figures... I have a brilliant bag which is just the right size for my netbook that came out of the raffle a couple of years ago - bearing a discreet buffy logo.

Or something else geeky? We've had music tracks from movies, journals and note-books to help you write down your ideas if you still like a pen, a 'how to write fantasy book', promises to make icons or banners...

Chocolate or other comestibles? We got some excellent, and interesting, New Zealand goodies last year - and Quinara definitely left clutching a bottle...

You can even donate more than one thing if you want - we'll happily go round till we run out of prizes!
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[personal profile] curiouswombat
Back in November we completed the WriterConUK challenge - to do something, making use of something you had seen, heard, whatever, at the 2011 Event.

Wldecate, Brutti-ma-buonni, Thismaz, and Curiouswombat all did just that.

Due to Christmas (well that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it) we didn't get around to givin those writers shiny award things.

KazzyCee has now made the shiny things -

They can be collected Here.
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Sign up post for WriterConUK 2012

Dates:

Friday May 25th to Sunday May 27th 2012

Venue:

Ramada Hotel, The Butts, Coventry City Centre.

Membership Cost:

£35.
This is £5.00 more than the cost for the past couple of years. This will reduce the number of attendees required for viability by 5 people. Otherwise, if the enforced change of date lowers the numbers attending by even 2 or 3, it puts the event in doubt. Should there be more people than usual we will use any spare money to add extras to the goodie bags, or buy drinks for Saturday dinner, or similar.

Programme:

Quiz/Icebreaker, Goodie Bags and Introductions on Friday evening.

A full day of talks and workshops by fanfic writers, fan vidders, and fan artists, on Saturday, followed by socialising, and supper.

More socialising, drawing of the raffle, and AGM on Sunday morning.

Intended Audience:

Anyone currently involved with, or wishing to become involved with, the creative side of any fandom as a writer, vidder, artist, beta or reader/reviewer. All levels of experience welcome.

Accommodation:

Members will be responsible for booking their own accommodation.

Details of accommodation at the venue are:

Group rate of £65 per night for single occupancy, including breakfast, or, £75 per night per room, including breakfast, for two sharing a twin room.

Bookings should be made direct to Ramada Coventry.

You can book by phone. The number is '02476 238 110', ask for Reservations. You will need to quote Writercon UK Event 2012 to ensure the group rate.

Alternatively, you can also book via email to reservations@ramadacoventry.co.uk – again, quote Writercon UK Event 2012 to get the group rate.

Car Parking:

Car parking is usually £4.50 per night, in the last few years we have managed to negotiate a slightly lower cost, and hope to do so again this year. Details will be provided as soon as we have them.

Please note:

Membership numbers are limited to a maximum of 40. Membership will be on a first- come first-served basis.

How to Register:

Please comment on this post.

If you don't have a Livejournal/Dreamwidth account, the comment will obviously be anonymous, so clear details of who you are, are particularly important. *g*

Please provide the following information:

1. The name you would like to have listed on your badge and the attendees list
2. How you intend to pay (see below)
3. Your fandoms (for quiz/icebreaker and workshop planning purposes)
4. Your primary fandom character (or pairing, if applicable) (to inform the magical goodie bag creator) If you can also point to a source of pictures and information on less common fandoms, that would be wonderful too.
5. Any dietary preferences.

You may copy and paste this template, if it helps:

Your Online/Fandom Name:
Payment Method:
Fandoms:
Primary Fandom and Pairing/Character:
Particular dietary preferences:


Payment

You may register now, by commenting to this post, without paying just yet – last call for payments will be a month before the event – but we are likely to start poking you before that if you haven’t paid up!

You may pay by cheque if you have attended in the past, or are known to the committee – this is simply because, as the treasurer, I will have to give you my off-line details so that you know where to post it.

Paying by PayPal - Paying via PayPal does not require that you have a PayPal account yourself. Click on the button at the end of this post and follow the links to pay by credit or debit card.

Unless you make your on-line name obvious from your Paypal payment details please be sure to use the private message function to contact [personal profile] curiouswombat and let me know your real name, so that I can match the Paypal payment with your online identity. This is important, otherwise I will end up with a number of payments with no matching attendee, and a number of attendees without matching payments…







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OK - I am a prime example of a problem we have here at Dreamwidth - the Community have two accounts. This is becuase the current committee began this one when Live journal was having major DOS problems in mid2011 without realising that an earlier committee had done the same thing!

So - I managed to post my write up of the recent Event, and my challenge to the rest of the community, on the wrong one...

So - firstly, here is my post, about 3 week late! )


Write any style, and fandom, any length, or do an art piece – and post here or on Live Journal before November 1st.

Go on - you know you want to...

I promise that I will!


Secondly - if you have the dreamwidth community writerconuk on your reading list it might be as well to delete it so that you only see the current community - namely this one.
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[personal profile] daiseechain
Event Charter as discussed at Writercon UK Midimeet 2010. Again, ably recorded by Kitty_Poker1, reformatted for LJ by me and with apologies for the posting oversight.


Writercon UK Event Charter )
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[personal profile] curiouswombat
The first night quiz has become something of a tradition at the WriterconUK events - and we hope this tradition will continue - along with the raffle.

We need everyone to bring along three questions, preferably from more than one fandom (that means 1 from fandom A plus 1 or 2 from fandom B - not that you need 3 from each fandom!) and our Chair will use these to provide an entertaining - nay fascinating - Friday Night Quiz.

And there will be the usual raffle of fandom related, or writing related, or even food and booze related items donated by the members...

So - got something Merlin related but gone right off him? Or discovered you have one copy too many of The Hobbit? Too many bottles of a rather nice merlot? This is your chance to make someone else happy - and hope to be able to win something you want more.

Remember - both the quiz and the raffle are most fun when everyone brings something along!

See you in 23 days, folks!
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[personal profile] curiouswombat
We know that there will be people looking for room-mates at the hotel in Coventry.

Please do use the comments thread to this post to help you find someone. Either comment to say that you need a room-mate, or if you see a note here already from someone that you think you would be happy to share with, contact them.

If you want to keep the person to person contact out of the comments thread I would suggest just contacting each other by Private Message.

If you do it that way it will also be easier to come back and edit your comment to say you are now sorted - or even delete it.
daiseechain: WriterCon UK default icon of a hand reaching through a screen (Default WriterCon UK)
[personal profile] daiseechain
Hi all.

(I'm posting this through a migraine so please go easy on me if there are any errors)

As the committee decided to refresh the original reg post over on Live Journal due to some technical issues, we also thought we'd put one up on Dreamwidth as well, to save those of you living and working in Dreamwidth the trek all the way over to the old country :-D



Registrations:



WriterconUK are pleased to accept registrations for the Event 2011


Dates:
Friday 5th – Sunday 7th August 2011.

Venue:
Ramada Hotel, The Butts, Coventry City Centre

Membership Cost:
£30.

Programme:
Quiz/Icebreaker, Goodie Bags and Introductions on Friday evening.
A full day of talks and workshops by fanfic writers, fan vidders, and fan artists, on Saturday, followed by socialising, and supper.
More socialising and possibly a couple more talks/workshops on Sunday morning.

Intended Audience:
Anyone currently involved with, or wishing to become involved with, the creative side of any fandom as a writer, vidder, artist, beta or reviewer. All levels of experience welcome.


Accommodation:


Members will be responsible for booking their own accommodation.

Details of accommodation at the venue are:

Group rate of £59 per night for single occupancy, including breakfast, or, £69 per night per room, including breakfast, for two sharing a twin room.

Bookings should be made direct to Ramada Coventry.

You can book by phone. The number is '02476 238 110', ask for Reservations. You will need to quote Writercon UK Event 2011 to ensure the group rate.

Alternatively, you can also book via email to reservations@ramadacoventry.co.uk – again, quote Writercon UK Event 2011 to get the group rate.



Saturday Night Meal:
There will be an event dinner on the Saturday night, at an additional cost of £15. A menu will be provided nearer the date.


Car Parking:
Car parking is usually £4.50 per night, but the hotel has agreed that members can have it for £3.

Please note:

Membership numbers are limited to a maximum of 40. Membership will be on a first come first served basis.

How to Register:

Please comment on this post.

If you don't have a Livejournal, the comment will obviously be anonymous, so clear details of who you are, are particularly important. *g*

Please provide the following information:

1. The name you would like to have listed on your badge and the attendees list
2. Details of your website if you would like it included on the attendees webpage
3. How you intend to pay (see below)
4. Your fandoms (for quiz/icebreaker and workshop planning purposes)
5. Your primary fandom character (or pairing, if applicable) (to inform the magical goodie bag creator) If you can also point to a source of pictures and information on less common fandoms, that would be wonderful too.
6. Any dietary preferences.

You may copy and paste this template, if it helps:

Fandom Name:
Website Address:
Payment Method:
Fandoms:
Primary Fandom and Pairing/Character:
Particular dietary preferences:



To give you some ideas, take a look at the 2009 programme.



As people register and pay, they will be listed in an upcoming post.



Payment Options:


A single membership costs £30.

PayPal:
Payment must be received in full within two weeks registration. Remember: please contact [personal profile] curiouswombat via PM so that she can match the payment to the registration.

Paying via paypal does not require that you have a paypal account, yourself. Click on the button and follow the links to pay by credit or debit card.










By Post:
Wombat is willing to accept payment by cheque sent by post from all those who attended the 2010 Midimeet. For reasons of online safety this option is regrettably not available to new attendees.

Payment must be received in full, within two weeks of registration to maintain the place.


Membership will be confirmed, on receipt of payment.

Membership is non-refundable, however it can be transferred to another person by agreement.

If you wish to express interest but cannot commit at this time, please comment to say so. This will help give us an idea of numbers, although we cannot guarantee to reserve you a place until you pay for a membership.
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[personal profile] daiseechain
Hello 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!

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