Green Room - Week 30 - Day 1

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

If today is truly “a brand new day”, you can take advantage of that! It won’t know what it’s doing, as a day, yet. You, on the other hand, have plenty of experience dealing with days. It almost doesn’t seem fair!

So grab the advantage while you have it! Today is a fast learner!!

Last night, on the other hand, last night got the better of a lot of people:

We had results: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/573972.html
New topics: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/574285.html
And of course a Work Room: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/574652.html

Comments

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for some feedback/suggestions. Here's what I'm probably writing so far:

1. Intensely personal nonfiction (yes, I know this is a stretch, AND it's not about being a mom)
2. Historical-ish fiction, if I don't fail at this week like I did when I tried last week
3. MAYBE a rant (so also nonfiction), which is probably Idol Suicide

Anyone want (or NOT want) to see anything else specific from me?

ETA: Oh, and FRIST!

[cosmolinguist]

If you want beta-reading I'm happy to help out :) I think I'm probably contemplating some Idol Suicide as well...

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

The rant being "idol suicide" would probably depend what you're ranting about and how you compose it. I like some rants if they are well done and not about Idol itself. Or politics, as I don't grok politics (booooring).

Which topic would constitute your rant?

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

You're FRIST!!!!!!!!!

And I'll beta for you again if you'd like :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Any of the Sam&Daisuke arc would be great. I've really enjoyed it.

I also loved the coal-mining mother historical fiction you did, and the Amelia Earhardt from outsider POV story. So, I think the historical fiction is a win for me, so long as it isn't incredibly long.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

I'm excited about this back-to-your-roots shiz...

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty excited about you returning back to your roots too :)

[ecosopher.livejournal.com]

Just dropping in to wish you all best of luck in the next couple of weeks! And Gary, hope you have a great break from work :)

Here, we're hoping for rain for the rest of the week (yippee!) and I going to attempt to make a chocolate zucchini cake. Actually I don't doubt I can make it, but the attempt will be ensuring nobody sees me put the zucchini in. That's right: hiding vegetables is the height of my hijinks these days.

Sigh.

Actually, life is pretty OK over here, when I stop taking for granted all the good stuff. I hope it is where you are too.

[n3m3sis42.livejournal.com]

Do you want a recipe? I have an amazing chocolate zucchini bread recipe if you want it. :)

ETA:
Just in case you do, here it is http://alchemybaking.blogspot.com/2011/09/triple-chocolate-zucchini-bread.html

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

A brand new day is good! At a brand new job too. Yesterday was typical - reading handbooks, filling out paperwork, going to lunch, etc. No real work yet but I'm not complaining. After my last job, a few days of no stress is wonderful! I just wish I wasn't so tired. I had dreams inspired by an Idol enter last week so that was weird.

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

Just saw Prometheus, which was OK. I have thoughts, but they are spoiler-ish. I felt there were a lot of loose ends which may or may not be tied up in a sequel and I questioned one particular piece of casting.

And now I'm fretting about the puppy's separation anxiety which is causing all night howling. He's the perfect dog in every other way, but the husband won't put up with being woken up with the sun much longer :o(

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

5 entries?!?!?! Idol, I am surprised I even made it this far. And now I must REALLY turn on my Productive Writer Brain and WRITE STUFF.

Speaking of writing stuff, what would you lovely Idolers like to see from me? I am most likely doing all fiction pieces because, with me, nonfiction happens only when I am super-inspired. So, what kind of fiction would you like? Or are you hankering for some nonfiction, despite its low probability? Do tell! ^_^

Thank you. :)

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

Good morning, lovelies. Hope you all have the greatest of days!

I'll be here snickering at the fact that I dropped out the week before the five-entry torture run. haha

Love!

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

I personally could not be happier, too, with the timing or the way I went out. I am too stubborn to drop, but, really, 29 weeks... it starts to lose its fun at some point, and began feeling like work. I am so happy not to have to be dealing with this week, because, really... I would have done it, but I can't imagine having the energy to continue afterwards.

But I can feel pretty good about not having to quit, and not really having been eliminated, but getting out through what more or less amounts to mitigating circumstances. To have been the lowest of 36... that would have been tough on the ego. But to know that what had to happen to get me out was to land in a race with only 5 competitors against me, 2 of whom are top 10s, and all of whom are more popularly known, while having the routine schedule I'd become accustomed to flipped on its head, and having to select from one of four topics... and still not end up last. That doesn't hurt so much. And now, I don't have to torture myself this week.

Suckers. :P

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Great timing, that! Although at least it's 5 entries in 2 weeks, so not *too* horrible. :)

[copyright1983.livejournal.com]

My goodbye speech (http://copyright1983.livejournal.com/41034.html) is up. As I mention in there (somewhere), anyone who wants to add me as a friend, feel free.

[m-malcontent.livejournal.com]

Four entries, so Meta, PETA, Zeta and Chico and the Man slash.

I better get on it! :P

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

You must have been skimming, too. It's FIVE. (That's better, right? ;)

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I like brand new days - gotta get 'em before their warranty expires, yanno? I totally don't want to waste my time on a day that's already expired! =)

We saw the movie Battleship last night, and it was much better than I thought it would be, and not just because of Alexander Skaarsgard (mmmm... yummy!). It was a fun movie with good special effects, and it really did play homage to ye olde board game, LOL.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Awwwww, I didn't know your girlfriend had broken up with you. I'm sure sorry. :(

My kids tended to need their long naps for awhile. The surprise was my son, who also needed a morning nap as a baby. It was really hard to plan activities around his schedule until that stopped. :0

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

I have an idea that will tie together two of the prompts, but I don't suppose 1 entry = 2 prompts. Therefore, if I use the idea, I'm going to have to split it and thus ruin the effect :p

Our guest-for-the-week will be arriving sometime tonight. We haven't even started cleaning out the guest room! YIKES! I need to do some shopping so we'll have the semblance of actual FOOD and I assume the semblance that I can actually DO SOMETHING with this FOOD.

Other than that, it's been raw and rainy the last couple of days here. It's made me such a slug I'm surprised moss hasn't started sprouting on me...

[medleymisty.livejournal.com]

I think I'm gonna do five connected stories. Also I hope I feel better soon - I have a fairly bad cold.

Gotta run do work stuff now.

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

A common thread so far in a lot of these comments seems to be "I have an idea... but it's ___________________ (batshit insane, probably a suicide mission, bound to get me on the FBI's Most Wanted list, bound to get me on Idol's Least Wanted list, frowned upon by polite society, not part of this complete breakfast, etc.)

If we're *all* posting nutritionally deficient terrorist entries, we can't *all* get knocked out... can we? Let us gather together under the canopy of total fucking insanity, unite with our respective dreams, and blissfully rejoice as one. Oh, and eventually flail wildly while we claw each other's eyes out, but it's not time for that until at least the second week.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

Have I ever told you I like the way you think?

;)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

So, now I'm wondering if I can use my Home Game entry on "Appropriation" from last week to cover that prompt. If we're talking Idol Suicide, why NOT use that poem?

And I'll bet the_day_setup is kicking himself for writing 60% of this week's goal last week. In unreusable format. :0

No feedback yet on things any of you might want to see.

You don't care? You have no opinion? All of the fics so far have been different, so there's no common thread to latch onto?

Or, you want to see what kind of cracked out weirdness I'll come out with on my own? :0

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

I have a thing I want to see: something like your entry for Sated Week, with the ultra-creepy dystopian future. That was awesome! ^_^

[ashgaelsonaria.livejournal.com]

I've been out o it today - over did it yesterday and still have stuff to do.
stooped health issues make me useless.
Glasses should be ready soon
I edited what I wrote for disapear and its finnished. The link was removed but thats ok. Its what I was thinking about when I wrote the peace on PTSD flashbacks.
Writing about things is suposed to help but I think sometimes its just a way to share the nightmare.
I wont be relinking it but its there because sometimes all you have to do to disapear is change your name.