CHILDREN IN NEED NIGHT

For the last few years Boot Campers have joined with other flash-writers to write their hearts out and raise money for UK Charity "Children in Need". Last year I said "Never Again."


Never say Never!

CIN Night is Friday November 16th but we have a lot of practice nights!

The basic format is this. people sign up to write as much as they can (shorts, poems, articles, flashes) between the hours of 6PM Thursday and Midnight Friday (15-16 November)

They do so inspired by emailed prompts which also appear on a few sites.

The prompts will be posted on a one-hour cycle and a 90-minute cycle.

A number of members attempt the straight thirty hours, others 24 Hours, some do both evenings from 6-12,

What is important is that THE GROUP is active for the thirty hours.

We tie up with magazines who print the best stories and we also produce an anthology either in-house or via a publishing house. Two years ago LEAF produced the work in an amazingly short time.

Many of you reading this will know of "CIN NIGHT", how it works and the amazing work it produces. We are still getting "hits" from work written for CIN last year. For some reason the intensity and craziness produces a lot of very very good work!

WHAT WE ASK OF PARTICIPANTS.

Entry itself is £25 or $50.

This is broken down as follows.

£10/$20 for Children in Need
£10/$20 for a prize fund. 100% payed out.
£5/$10 for a single copy of the anthology (overseas post extra)


We also ask participants to raise sponsorship independently. Two years ago we raised over £10,000 and we would like to beat that this year.


WHAT DO YOU GET OUT OF IT?

It's a big challenge, very exciting and demanding.

It teaches you something, that stories WILL come and they will surprise you. More than a few participants have told us that they wrote their best work ever in the 30 Hours of "CIN"

You have a life-experience.

You raise money for Children.



WHAT HAPPENS BEFORE?

We raise the troops. Nobody is registered without the payment as otherwise we get a lot of "time-wasters"

We open up some forums on line for practice nights

We practice (many practice stories are sold)

Some choose to meet up in Newbury at Kingfisher Barn for group-support on the night.

We post actual totals raised, and projected sponsorship amounts



ON THE NIGHT

You get prompts every thirty minutes. use them as you see fit.

You forward stories to the secretary so that they are anonymous, unnattributed.

You write write write.


AFTERWARDS

The group works on line reading and rating flashes to shortlist them down to 50/100/150

The stories are rated "author-blind"

The magazines/publications read (say) the top 100 and select from these, award a prize.

Previously this was done by "Eclectica' a top ezine.

We also produce the paper anthology which will of course be for sale.

Last year we sold 500


WE STILL HAVE ANTHOLOGIES FROM LAST YEAR AND 2005, AVAILABLE FOR £5 EACH PLUS £1 POSTAGE, SHOULD YOU WISH TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DONE.

YOU CAN ALSO LOOK AT THE CIN FLASHES AT ECLECTICA. (GO TO ARCHIVES)



To join us email Alex at

alex.keegan (at sign) btinternet.com

Payments can be made by bank transfer, UK cheque or PayPal

Please note the bulk of monies raised (the individual sponsorships) go direct to Children in Need as we have no desire to handle tens of thousands of pounds. We only deal with the entry fees.

JOIN US!