therealljidol | Nov. 29th, 2018

The deadline to get your entry in is tonight at 7PM. https://therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1015643.html So why are you reading this? You should be writing!

Unless of course you aren't actually reading this. Which I suspect might be true. Let me know if you're not reading this.

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Cynthia gave me one of her pens to use at work. The Kaweco Perkeo with Noodler's Heart of Darkness ink. It's my first fountain pen! I can definitely see the appeal of it.

Nathan Tardiff is definitely an interesting character, I was thinking of trying to find one of his interviews or general rants, but I think you get some of what I'm talking about in his "Note from the Founder" on his own site http://noodlersink.com/the-noodlers-advantage/ I like to think of him as the Dr Bronner of the ink community.

I couldn't recall Dr Bronner's name, so I started my google search with "Doctor crazy soap" and it was the first result!

A few words from

clauderainsrm:

Putting this poll together took longer than usual, because I’m more out of it than usual. :)

But as I was putting the entries into the template, I noticed a couple of things - people seemed to really have a good time with this topic, and it shows. I like to change things up, to make the writers work for their survival. Sometimes there are topics that I am positive will be great jump off points for the writers to explore, and they all struggle with it. Other times I’m convinced that something will be challenging, and they knock it out of the park. So, you never really know until it’s game time and you start seeing what people are swinging at… and this is definitely a nice collection of home runs!

As I’m writing this, we are almost in December, we will be there by the time this poll closes, so I can tell you - the plan is to have Second Chance start in December. I want to give you a heads up on this, so if you are reading this, and are not a current contestant, but are enjoying what you are seeing - you CAN GET INTO THE ACTION TOO!!!

If you were a part of the season, but are already eliminated - your chance is coming to get revenge!

If you are a current contestant, this is also a good time to think of friends who might be interested and start working on them! Maybe reach out to some old Idol friends and get them to show up. Or people who have never heard of Idol.

Keep in mind that there is also a purse to be split that currently stands at over $300.

If you’re someone who thinks they’ve got a clear path to the end - give yourself a challenge and bring out some amazing new writers to keep you on your toes!

IF you’re someone who is convinced that they are doomed, bring in some cannon fodder.. Oh, I mean, people you are convinced you are beat. :D

Whatever your dark and twisted reasons - just start letting people know.

But I digress - we are here for a reason, and that reason is to grow the ranks of the Second Chancers the old fashion way - by eliminating people.

Which means that it’s time to get to the poll.

Before we do that though, it’s time to say goodbye to those leaving us through bye-outs.

Remember how I said there were a couple things I noticed? But then I only listed one thing? You may have thought that I was just delirious, or perhaps just forgetful. It was neither. I was just waiting to mention it.

There were NO bye-outs this week. I’m really pleased, and proud of all of our writers, for fighting to stay in this! Great job!

That said, the poll is going up. So now we are going to lose 2 more contestants.

The poll closes Monday, Dec 3rd at 9PM EST.
Good luck to everyone.