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

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

So, I tried to stay up late to get the results. I made it until one local time and fell asleep. My amazing powers of staying up late are much diminished over here. I woke up in the middle of the night, saw this post and the poll, said "aw shit", went back to bed and tried to sleep more.

Writing while traveling is hard, and my admiration for season 8 winner whipchick, who managed to do her magic while on the road all over the world and working, has only gone up during this last week (and it was pretty darn high to begin with).

Oh, and for the record, it was my own topic that got my eliminated. I think there's a curse or something. ;)

It's been amazingly fun writing with all of you! Thank you guys for reading my weird little stories, and for your support and comments.

[zephyrly.livejournal.com]

I honestly thought that you were going to win, so the fact that you're out deeply confuses me.

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I was certainly hoping to win it, but you just never know how things are going to swing with the poll! Last season I was solidly middle of the pack the entire time I played, and made it to the top 10. This time around I managed to top quite a few polls - which was really neat and surprising for me - and got exactly as far. Some combination of me being away (and therefore not as interactive and stuff), a longish and surreal story which got mixed reactions, and a lot of VERY strong competition made for a tight squeeze there at the end.

I got two rejection letters this morning, too, for two different stories, so that was fun, I'm feeling a little bit like it might be time to pull back from writing and go full force into editing and chopping things up to make them better somehow. I dunno. We'll see.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a little bit like it might be time to pull back from writing and go full force into editing

NOT AT ALL. This is a temporary delusion.

I shared your "Ashes to Ashes" story with my husband, who also thought it was amazing, and I mentioned one that I thought you really should get published. He thought it was that one (I agree! Send it out!), but it's the one about the Minotaur's daughter. I'm going to share that one with him too!

Which is to say... part of Idol is also Friends' lists and the changing psychological mood of what people want to read or what "grabs" them in a particular week, and it's very unpredictable.

Now I just need to remind myself of that!

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I know you're right. And it's probably a good thing I am well distracted by London right now, because I'm just feeling hyper-critical due to the synchronicity of this all. One of the rejection letters was for that Minotaur's daughter story, btw. :) I took it down and put it out into circulation pretty much right away. I know it's a matter of luck and tiiming with the fiction markets, and I'm doing well to submit at all - and getting these personal letters instead of form letters back is a very good sign. I just sort of feel like stomping my wittle feet and crying out "but I want what I want NOW". Heh. I'll get over it. And words like yours help ENORMOUSLY, I promise you.

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

:D Well, that means I can't show HalfshellHusband the story, but I am SO happy you've submitted it! I think that one will find a home-- it just may take time. Moody, unusual, and just fascinating. :)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Ditto! Her or you!

[zephyrly.livejournal.com]

No way. I'm not going to win, but I'm not in it to win. Actually, I kind of hope that I don't win so I can do Exhibit B.

You have no idea how much LJI has helped me over these past few months.

[porn-this-way.livejournal.com]

Boooooooo! You're not allowed to be eliminated yet. Seriously, just....go home, poll! You're drunk!

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

Drunk poll doesn't care for your recriminations. Drunk poll eliminates whoever it damn well pleases. Maybe I should have posted that "shiny metal ass" story draft I sent you instead... ;)

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

Wait. Does this exist? I need to see it. *koff*

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

*laughs* ohhhh man, I don't know. I was pretty much completely loopy, jet lagged like whoa and I'd been up for about 30 hours straight. I was convinced the first draft of the story I eventually posted was utter trash, and so I whipped up this completely sarcastic sorta kinda six sentence thing. It's not so much a "story draft" as it is a peek into my deranged brain at that point in time. The things porn_this_way puts up with... heh...

[halfshellvenus.livejournal.com]

That's EXACTLY the sort of thing I need to be part of. Plz, email it to me. Just for the LULZ, if nothing else. :)