Green Room - Week 24 - Day 6

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

There is still a poll out there, http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/458636.html , to determine who will be moving on. People have been pointing out just how much fiction there is this week. Hopefully that's just how people decided to go with the topic rather than a general direction of the overall season/competition. I guess we will see how things shake out in the coming weeks.

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I am currently reading the Bryson book "A Walk in the Woods" and just reached his visit to Centralia, Pennsylvania. More precisely, when he talks about the mine fire that started in 1962 and is still burning today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

If I didn't have to wait a season, I would make that a topic in and of itself, it's so interesting.

But since I have you here - what do *you* have burning, deep down inside? ;)

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[the-vernacular.livejournal.com]

Yesterday after reading comedychick's comments about it, I did the math for myself:

Fiction: 13
Nonfiction: 6
Both Fiction and Nonfiction mixed: 2
Other (essay, more abstract stuff): 3

Two of the fiction pieces ("Elephant in the Room" and "Inside Baseball") were detailed historical fiction, and "Elephant in the Room" was rewritten from firsthand accounts of the event I was writing about, so while "Elephant in the Room" is in the "fiction" category, it's less fictional than it appears.

So I have written slightly more fiction than everything else combined. I definitely felt more comfortable doing fiction for the intersections-- I'm not sure why, but it felt like it was easier to all start from a kernel of a story than to all start from a more personal place.

I tend to be inspired as far as what to write when I see the topic. Usually a few ideas come to me right away, and then I do a little research to pick which one I want to use. Sometimes, though, I know I want to write fiction or non-fiction without knowing what idea I want to use.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

Now you make me want to check how many of what I've done! Luckily I have a handy index of all my entries (http://comedychick.livejournal.com/419531.html) ;) (I'm not going to include my alt accounts for this)

Non-fiction: 16
Fiction (screenplay): 3
Fiction (other): 4
Poetry: 1

I've played with style and structure a bit in my non-fiction to keep things interesting.

[the-vernacular.livejournal.com]

Aww, I want to see the breakdown for yako. I imagine it looks like this!

Penguins: A billion
Nonpenguins: 4

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

*rofl*

Well I still have that journal up in Firefox, so I can check right now!

Penguins (children's fiction): 5 (which is just under a billion, so you were close!)
Non-fiction: 4
Fiction (other): 1

(edited for the icon that I remembered I uploaded here XD)

[java-fiend.livejournal.com]

Okay so this totally made me curious so I checked my own stuff too... and am shocked by the results. I really thought I was completely fiction-heavy this season.

Non-Fiction: 11
Fiction: 12

I may be going a bit loose with the "non-fiction" tag... I came across an entry like my "emails from God" one... it's obviously written as an email from God but it deals with "real-world" stuff so I classified that as non-fiction.

But yeah... very surprised that fiction isn't heavily outweighing the non-fiction at this point.

[momebie.livejournal.com]

This post made me curious too! When I went back and looked through my entries I found-
Fiction: 18
Non-fiction: 5
Poetry: 1

That's more non-fiction than I remembered. Though I'm also counting my intro post, which I suppose maybe doesn't count? I maybe should have made it a point at the beginning to decide to write more non-fiction, but when I look at the fiction I've written and the fictional worlds in which I was already writing separately I'm very pleased to see that I've gone outside of my bubble in that aspect so over all I feel like I've learned a lot here.

I think I might be staying away from non-fiction because I'd want to make those more memoir-y rather than like the regular old journal entries I write all the time anyway, and memoir has historically taken a lot out of me. Also, the one I did for that writing class in college took a lot out of my CLASSMATES, and wearing people out is probably not the best way to get them to vote for me. *sigh*

[joeymichaels.livejournal.com]

Fiction: 14
Nonfiction: 10

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

This made me curious about my own stats, too!

Fiction: 10
Non-fiction: 10*
Factional (fiction inspired by RL): 2

*I'm including two entries in here that I'm not sure about it/don't know what to label as. They read like fiction, I guess, but they're about RL things, so *shrug*

I've written more non-fic than I realised, but overall, I'd say I have a good balance of the two. For some reason I was worried that I'd written more fic than non-fic.