Green Room - Week 18 - Day 7

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We've reached the "Day of Reckoning" for 3 more people this week - and from what I've seen in the polls over the last few weeks, I really wouldn't put anyone in the "completely safe" category! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/771972.html

So, for those of you comfortable doing so - what entries really impressed you, that might not be getting enough attention?

Heck - what is it about YOUR entry that makes you think "Hell Yeah I deserve to stick around one more week!!"

Once you get finished with voting - head on over to the Killing Floor. There was actually only one entry there this week, but it definitely needs some more love and attention! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/770622.html

100 Weeks

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There are times when I may overlook something, and I'll get a friendly reminder via email about it.

I got one of those a few minutes ago, asking me to look into how many weeks they had. It was then that I noticed something staring right at me.

That someone had managed to hit that mark *2 weeks ago* and I had completely missed it!

Which (to me at least) is kind of funny, because she's the kind of writer that you might not notice at first, but as her work starts piling up you start going "Wait a second, she's really good!" and before you know it she's getting closer and closer to the end again!

Anyone who survives Idol intact has done something amazing. The people who keep doing it, season after season? Those people should probably be committed. ;) Getting to the point where you have survived 100 weeks of it? Yeah, that's padded room territory right there!

You know her. You love her. (or you will)

Welcome to the 100 Weeks club lawchicky!!

Results - Week 18

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Going into this week, I said that three people would be leaving us.

I should have known that the voters would have a mind of their own on this.

There ended up being a 9-way tie - with one person being a single vote shy of making it a 10-person tie. (a couple votes away from the Redemption Tribe being made up of a huge chunk of contestants)

Unfortunately, there was that one person who was one vote short.

Which means we will be saying goodbye to them.

On the other hand - they are receiving the solo spotlight! (which will hopefully carry over to Home Gaming and coming back via Second Chance!)

Goodbye to crimsonplum

Topic - Week 19

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People have been asking "When is the first Intersection?" and I've been ignoring those questions. Why? Because I've felt like ignoring them!

Which has led to quite a bit of speculation that it was coming up soon.

This is NOT that week.

Instead, we have one topic.

That topic is:

kindling

and you have until Tuesday, August 26th at 8pm EDT to link your entries back to this thread!

Have fun!

Work Room - Week 19

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The new topic is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/773244.html

Something that I noticed from the past couple of weeks is that there have been entries that have been suffering from what seem like format or stylist choice issues.

In my mind, those are two different, but related, items.

A stylist choice would be if you decided

to

break up your words

because you liked the way that it

looked on the

page

A formatting problem would be if the system just did it for you by mistake.

We've had some of both - as well as people forgetting that unless you friend every single voter, if you don't make it public, they can't actually see it.

The last two are fixable.

That first one is a choice you are making...to stand out. Sometimes that will be in a good way...and sometimes it won't work out as well for you.

So what I throwing out there like creative chum - what choices have you made in the past with your formatting that have really worked for you, and what haven't? (you can also address this as a reader - what has caught your attention and what has just distracted from the flow of the piece?)