Green Room - Week 6 - Day 3

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The Idol elves have been busy decorating to celebrate the new month.

Human skulls on pikes is “Christmas”y – right?

Maybe we can put one on top of the tree, both as celebration and warning. Which is really all the same thing these days.

Speaking of warnings – the deadline to get in your entries is tonight. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/502415.html

It’s looking pretty scary right now. When we started, there were over 50 contestants who didn’t have a bye left, which put them in danger of leaving us. The last time I checked, that number was down into the 30s of folks who were on the verge this week. Even if we end up with “less than half” – that’s still going to be a blow that will take us down to really close to the 200 contestant mark.

With another week of tribal shifts, this could be major in how this season ends up playing out. Then again, every week in Idol is major toward that goal. But given that “200” will mark the start of “Phase 2”, when things start getting interesting. . . well, I guess people had better start securing their seatbelts!

Comments

[poppetawoppet.livejournal.com]

aaaand posted. Surprised that I'm only the 100th commenter on the topic post

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I know... Lots of last minute posts or lots of byes? I'm wondering...

[poppetawoppet.livejournal.com]

probably lots of last minute posts

i don't know about anyone else, but I was struggling with too many ideas.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I was struggling with getting an idea at all. Sure, I had several... But they just wasn't clicking and didn't feel natural. I finally had the current idea and decided to go with it. I'm finding that in writing more funny nonfiction than I ever have before.... I think I only tried my hand at funny once in season 6, the week I got eliminated. But that's what keeps coming to me this season...

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

What I ended up with came right out of left field because it was something I hadn't even been consciously considering! It's weird how my mind works.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

My mind does that. My ideas for most of this season (maybe all even) has surprised me when I least expected it. I used to have to fight and fight for ideas... Now I know that if I try too hard, it just ain't gonna work :)

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

My idea ended up kind of unexpected and totally NOT something I would normally do, simply because there is positive mention of a food I loathe in real life.

[rt-sparrow.livejournal.com]

That's my problem too. But I have (finally) picked one, and am working on it.

(Except now I'm in the Green Room and a minute ago I was in the Nano forum.)

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Probably both! I have to prod the hubby into getting his entry in, because he's out of byes already. I doubt he'll get to it until tonight though since he's at work.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

You East coasters have that option. For me, I'm usually still at work or driving home when the deadline hits! I pretty much have to do it the night before or take a bye.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

Lol, I'm on the East coast, and I'm usually still at work. Today I did mid-shift, though, so I got home four hours early -- made it online about three minutes after deadline.

Fortunately, I linked mine in last night. ;)