Pros Alpha-fic Bingo anyone?

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The mods over at ljbookbingo have started a fun new game this year - Alpha-book bingo, which I decided to play in my lj as I read this year. And then as I was reading a Pros fic the other day, I suddenly thought... can you guess? *g*



Stamp out the squares for every fic you read beginning with a different letter of the alphabet, and give a link to it in a post in your lj (or here in ci5hq if you'd rather). It might be a nice way of getting some more Pros into our flists, and reminding everyone of the different Pros stories out there, if anyone else would like to play, just as a personal kind of game?

And a thousand thanks and kudos to keli, who made the Alpha-book Bingo board, and then tailored it especially for Pros! *vbg*

Would anyone like to join me in playing?

Comments

[tinturtle]

I will play.

[dawnebeth.livejournal.com]

sounds fun and will encourage me to read more Pros.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Cool! And just what I was thinking... *vbg*

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Sounds like fun. I haven't been reading much fanfic recently, so this might get me revved up again.

[macklingirl.livejournal.com]

I like the idea and I think I'll join. To see which of my friends takes part and to read some of the stories they read might be fun. :-)

[boothros.livejournal.com]

I'm in, if we used CI5 HQ to dib our cards, where should we post them, in this thread?

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

I can't promise consistency, but I'd be more than happyto pop in and make suggestions.

Though I'm not quite clear how this will play out — is it just making recs, or timed, or something? It just sounds like it would be over in a day. <tired, thus confused>

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was thinking! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I thought it might be nice to see what people are reading, and who's reading Pros, and if people recommend the stories they're reading... *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally post them to the comm itself, in a new post! That way everyone can see, and they'll have just a bit more Pros on their lj flist pages! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Hee — I'm definitely not going to be consistent!

So basically, it's to get people reading Pros fic in a fun way. You have to read a Pros story that starts with each letter of the alphabet, and when you do you cross it off, like in Bingo. So for instance if you read "Freezing" by Helen Raven, you'd get to cross off your "F" square. Every time you cross off a square, post your card to your lj (or here to this comm) with the square crossed off and the name of the fic, and a link to it if possible so that other people can read it if they want to, and ideally a sentence or two about the fic, or saying why you did/didn't like it, etc.

So it might take longer than a day... *g*

[golden-bastet.livejournal.com]

Okay, that makes sense!

Is there a minimum word count to the stories? Otherwise, well, drabbles.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Rofl! I guess if you wanted to read drabbles, you could read drabbles — but everyone would know... *vbg*

Mind you, it would probably be harder to find drabbles for all letters than it would stories, so maybe someone should do an Alpha-drabble bingo!! *vbg*