Green Room - Week 0 - Day 2
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therealljidolThe deadline is coming up in slightly less time than it will take for the internet to, once again, turn on the Onion! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/649689.html So make sure you claim someone, and write their introduction!
I know that some people love intersections (working with someone else) and some hate them. But this isn’t a traditional intersection. It’s literally you writing something completely on your own. It just so happens that it is about someone else. (and given how many times your work is about “someone else”, it’s really not all that different) You don’t have to even contact the person, if you really don’t want to – just claim someone, who hasn’t already been claimed, and write something about them!
I know the bigger issue though isn’t about the specific topic. It’s about being an introvert, or just being uncomfortable in general meeting new people.
Believe me, I know the world of the introvert. In real life, I’m much more of one – and my girlfriend makes me look like an extrovert working on commission! In the last two years, I’ve been forced outside of my comfort zone as a result!
But I also know what social interaction can do for your writing. Not just in the realm of publishing, where it’s pretty much a necessity, but just in terms of getting and receiving the constructive criticism people need to get better. Heck, reaching out and working with someone is a built-in audience, and I don’t think there is anyone who would sign up for something like this and *not* want an audience! :D
The Green Room is a great way for you to get your metaphorical feet wet, by joining into conversations at your own pace. Most of the people don’t bite…. Um… OK… they do. Almost all of the people here bite. But many of them are on meds, so they are getting better!! Um… ok… a few of them remember to take those meds… ;)
It’s also a good excuse to grab someone you already know, and force them to sign up! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/648417.html Sign Ups are still open for the next few days, so I would go get them now! Blindside them when they aren’t paying attention, and when they wake up, they will be one of us!!
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Happy Birthday to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
porn_this_way! If you asked me, a few years ago, if I would ever say those particular words in a Green Room, I would have said “No”, but hey, that’s her name!
I know that some people love intersections (working with someone else) and some hate them. But this isn’t a traditional intersection. It’s literally you writing something completely on your own. It just so happens that it is about someone else. (and given how many times your work is about “someone else”, it’s really not all that different) You don’t have to even contact the person, if you really don’t want to – just claim someone, who hasn’t already been claimed, and write something about them!
I know the bigger issue though isn’t about the specific topic. It’s about being an introvert, or just being uncomfortable in general meeting new people.
Believe me, I know the world of the introvert. In real life, I’m much more of one – and my girlfriend makes me look like an extrovert working on commission! In the last two years, I’ve been forced outside of my comfort zone as a result!
But I also know what social interaction can do for your writing. Not just in the realm of publishing, where it’s pretty much a necessity, but just in terms of getting and receiving the constructive criticism people need to get better. Heck, reaching out and working with someone is a built-in audience, and I don’t think there is anyone who would sign up for something like this and *not* want an audience! :D
The Green Room is a great way for you to get your metaphorical feet wet, by joining into conversations at your own pace. Most of the people don’t bite…. Um… OK… they do. Almost all of the people here bite. But many of them are on meds, so they are getting better!! Um… ok… a few of them remember to take those meds… ;)
It’s also a good excuse to grab someone you already know, and force them to sign up! http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/648417.html Sign Ups are still open for the next few days, so I would go get them now! Blindside them when they aren’t paying attention, and when they wake up, they will be one of us!!
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Happy Birthday to
porn_this_way! If you asked me, a few years ago, if I would ever say those particular words in a Green Room, I would have said “No”, but hey, that’s her name!
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Date: 2013-05-08 02:45 pm (UTC)Today is my 20th wedding anniversary to the wonderful man known as
We're going out to dinner tonight for Italian food with some extended family. Otherwise, no big plans. I'm wondering if he will surprise me with flowers or something at work, but as yet there isn't any sign of such, and that's okay too.
My metaphorical "feet" aren't wet - the water is all the way up to my waist at this point, I've been frolicking in the Green Room for so long! It isn't easy being Green, most of us manage to pull it off. ♥
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Date: 2013-05-08 02:49 pm (UTC)He's a really wonderful young man and he and my daughter are very much in love with each other. Before he found out about the deployment there had been talks of them getting engaged and planning their wedding the year after she graduates from U of I but they've decided to wait until he returns...the reality and maturity of that decision by the two of them breaks my heart.
When he stopped by my house this morning he hugged me so tightly, he was trembling and trying very hard not to cry. My daugher was stone faced when she wasn't smiling at him trying to encourage him.
I have grown to love this boy like my own son over the last year and I'm scared to death for him and worried for my daughter and his parents. Any prayer or good thoughts or positive energy or what have you would be very appreciated. I find myself wanting to write about this and all the emotions that I'm feeling from everyone around me as well as my own.
Lacy and I are going to go out for dinner tonight and talk before she heads back to school to finish her finals. I'm so glad this is her last week, I don't want her to be up there alone right now.
:sigh: I hate war, I really do.
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Date: 2013-05-08 02:50 pm (UTC)Three out of 10 have already been claimed, so don't delay if you'd like one. I'm happy to mail overseas! :)
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Date: 2013-05-08 02:51 pm (UTC)Yesterday I wasted way too many hours reading the last of the Sookie Stackhouse series. The book was HORRIBLE. Seriously badly written. I'm not kidding, there are some Idol peeps in here that need to get busy getting published because Charlaine Harris just abdicated her place among the authors worth paying money for. /rant
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Date: 2013-05-08 02:57 pm (UTC)Thoughts and prayers with you and your daughter and Mike. Thank you all for your service to our country. I firmly believe that the whole family should be recognized for their service when someone is deployed.
I am involved with a group called Operation Write Home (operationwritehome.org) that sends blank handmade greeting cards to deployed service members so they can write home to their loved ones (there are no Hallmark stores in Afghanistan). When you have an address for him you can sign him up to receive cards, if his group isn't already receiving them.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:01 pm (UTC)A lot of people are tantruming about who she ends up with. (no spoilers here). For me it's not that. It's just really poorly written. I wrote a review for Audible today, and I said I honestly don't believe Charlaine Harris wrote the book. I think either she supervised another writer (who needed a stronger editing hand) or she did write it, and it's just an early draft that needed a lot more work and she either doesn't care anymore or had too many commitments to put in the work.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:09 pm (UTC)Thank you for being so understanding.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:12 pm (UTC)20th Anniversary Contemporary/Modern Gift:
Platinum. Platinum is strong and enduring, just like your 20-year old marriage.
20th Anniversary Gemstone:
Emerald or a yellow or golden diamond.
20th Anniversary Color:
Emerald green or white.
20th Anniversary Flower:
Day Lily.
•The meaning of a day lily is that of coquetry such as flirting, playful behavior towards one another.
If you want to give a rose symbolic of the 20th anniversary, here are a few to check out:
China Doll
Chinatown
Weeping China Doll
Precious Platinum
I think he should buy you a bunch of china lilies. :)
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:13 pm (UTC)She even departs from the first person narrator voice in this book, which she has never done before, except for a tag on one short story. It's like she decided it was just too hard or too much trouble to figure out how to tell the story from Sookie's perspective, which she has done twelve other times, and she just threw her hands in the air and said, "Whatever!"
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:27 pm (UTC)Did you ever read any Laurell Kaye Hamilton? I feel like she did exactly the same thing with her Anita Blake series. I'm probably going to have a lot of fans want to kill me for saying that but seriously, her books just became really bad writing after awhile and I was extremely disappointed.
This is why I worry about writing any kind of series. I'd be afraid to be one of those authors who doesn't know when I need to end it.
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Date: 2013-05-08 03:31 pm (UTC)Thanks for the b-day wishes! ♥
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