Results - Week 11

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Anyone who managed to make it to the Top 10 deserves a round of applause. Heck, anyone who has the courage to step into this Thunderdome at all deserves one. But right now we are looking at the Top 10, so let’s concentrate on them, while we still can.

Because by the end of this post, we will only have a Top 6!

Saying that the people leaving us today are amazing does a disservice to the word. Absolutely top-notched writers, and people - unlike those who are staying, who are all top-notched writers and completely reprobates! ;)

You did yourselves proud, and I hope to continue to see a lot more of your writing in the very near future!

Leaving us this week:

applespicy
halfshellvenus
lrig_rorrim
and the person who came back from the very back of the pack this morning, with fans that managed to help propel her within a few votes of pulling off a comeback, theun4givables


Thank you for coming out for this mini-season. I hope you had fun, and that you will keep cheering down this final stretch, to see how this is going to turn out!

Oh - and make sure you send me your Top 5 requests from the Community Chest! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/633787.html

Comments

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Well, I made a fucking effort. ;)

Well, 7th ain't too damn shabby, if you ask me. I won't say I'm not a little disappointed I couldn't pull it out at the last possible second, but I did fucking try to rally the troops, so to speak. And just fell a tiny bit short. That? Still an accomplishment, in my book.

I love the hell out of this competition and it's made me a stronger writer in just the past couple of months -- I always push myself for Idol. To me, that's really the point of it.

...but I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to win, either. ;)

[zephyrly.livejournal.com]

It's always that damn Speak 'N' Spell's fault.

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

It really is, man.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

You've written great stuff over the weeks, and even thought this last one wasn't to my taste, it was tight, suspenseful, and well-crafted. And I voted for it! Because those aspects are a big part of what great writing is!

The longer seasons are painful, but they're sure less brutal in terms of losing large chunks of people at once. I.e., one low week doesn't necessarily get you sliced out with the scythe.

Worth it, wasn't it? *hugs*

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I think I was banking on previous Idol trends (I don't think my piece was any worse than, say, java_fiend's work in tone). This crowd doesn't seem to favor the creepy and gorey quite as much.

Yeah, they are. I knew that it was gonna be tough for me to stay in this week -- and even when preparing for that mentally I still couldn't push hard enough. Oh well. Time to rest up for season 9. :) Because this was totally worth it.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I don't think my piece was any worse than, say, java_fiend's work in tone

You're right, it wasn't. That little bit of holding back on the gore and detail was why I was able to read it all the way through.

I'm still debating with myself as to whether doing Season 9 would in any way resemble the faintest form of sanity. :O

But I did discover that at least, this time around, writing across Monday-Thursday suited my creativity better than Thursday-Monday. At least in terms of how hard it was to push the ideas forward.

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Well yay, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so! I loved java's stuff during s8, though. :)

I tell myself it's because I really enjoy tormenting myself. Because I obviously do.

Yeah, I found that that was true for me, too. There was less time with the Monday-Thursday writing period, but I think that forced me to work faster. When the writing period was on the weekend it was harder for me to come up with ideas and for me to write them -- I think my husband's partially to blame for that, though.