Work Room - Week 27

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The new topic is up. http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/800348.html

For those just coming out of Last Chance Idol, it's a familiar feeling of "What do I write now?"

For the rest of you, there hasn't been an Open Topic since (*looks*) Week 13. Which means you've had plenty of time to think of something good.

And, under these circumstances - it had better be! ;)

No pressure or anything - but the group is now completely together. No more additions - only subtractions. One of you *is* going to win this thing.

What are some of the ideas that you have been holding in reserve, just in case - and how are you going to break out of this tight pack to showcase your work, while at the same time, trying to hold yourself together?

Comments

i know i sound like a broken record...

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

... but help? seriously, wouldn't mind suggestions/requests for "open topic". i'm at a loss.

ps: frist!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

OPEN MOUTH, INSERT TOPIC. ;)


(We're supposed to hold ideas in reserve? When did that happen?)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh! :D

[eska818.livejournal.com]

I was all geared up to get my write on tonight, and then you had to do "open topic" and now my brain is so confuzzled :P

[theun4givables.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo *breathes in*'ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....

[ellison.livejournal.com]

Lol!

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

(We're supposed to hold ideas in reserve? When did that happen?)

Since Day One.

Didn't you get the memo?

[ellison.livejournal.com]

Omg. WAY too many choices!! TOO MANY!! ;)

[karmasoup.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... I'm usually not certain what I'm going to do with an open topic, but this week I wrote part one of a fantasy story that's been in my head for a few years... the response from people who commented seemed to suggest that I should go forward, though it was a nailbiter in the polls... maybe I shouldn't let that stop me, though... we might have just reached that point, and that's what to be expected from now on. Because, if I do that, it would be easy to continue the momentum I had this week with that story forward... this is very convenient timing. And, it would leave me not wondering what to do.

I DO keep a spreadsheet of ideas for stories I want to write, both from my life and family, as well as fiction, but, whether or not I write any of them often depends on whether or not I'm "feeling it." If I've got a notion, and a head to continue with, I'm guessing I should just push into that full steam ahead, and maybe for once not be pressing too hard against the deadline.

a couple additional questions

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

based on things that came up in a recent Top Chef:

- What trends do you see in writing, and what do you think about them? (the one that popped immediately to mind was how Gonzo Journalism/personality-based writing became blogging and how that has exploded into "new journalism". But I'm sure there are others - drabs, etc)

- Who inspires you?

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the memo is in this tall stack o' stuff somewhere...

However, since I've been doing this (off and on) since Week 1 of Season 4, with the occasional tiebreaker thrown in... according to my spreadsheet (not including HG topics or "Week 0" topics) I've written a total of 147 entries. (If you include Home Game entries, that would make six more)

THAT'S A LOT, DUDE.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaand..... *exhale*

Re: a couple additional questions

[jexia]

If this was a gatekeeper round, would you tell us ahead of time?

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

=) Thanks.

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, hey - what if we all think of a few topic suggestions and throw them out into the Collective Hat, then choose amongst them?

Re: a couple additional questions

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Not a chance.

Re: a couple additional questions

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

*Snort*




Excuse me, I'll just be over in this corner laughing my head off. :)

Re: a couple additional questions

[jexia]

K, just checking ;)

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to decide if our theory was right or if Gary thought it'd be fun to screw with us since I just asked in the AMA (and maybe other people did, too, idk).

Re: a couple additional questions

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

Trends:

- Memoirs. All the fucking memoirs. Some of them are really good, but does everyone need to have a memoir?

- Books based on blogs, but I guess that's not so much different from how all the funny-columnist writers had their own books in the 80s (maybe before, too, but that's when I was alive to remember it). If I like blog, and you're not just compiling the same stuff you already put on your blog, I'm cool with it. But I rarely buy the blog-books.

- I was wondering the other day how certain literary authors of the recent past would do today if they were just starting out. I mean, in a world where 50 Shades is a thing...

Inspiration:

In real life? My friends - the ones who take the time to read and tell me what they love and what they don't and why and remind me to get over myself when I get all "tortured artist." Because seriously. Also the ones who write and are a million times more motivated than I am or have harder/busier lives than me and write amazing stuff anyway.

In what I read? Everything. Even the bad stuff inspires me.

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

1. I doubt I'll write a HG entry, but if I did, the thing that's on my mind right now is - we can't trick or treat safely anymore, it's all "have a safe thing at church or the school." And you can't jump on your bike and roll without protective gear, and there are all kinds of toys and things that aren't safe anymore that we all survived just fine (mostly) - so my question is - Why do we still have The Ice Cream Man? I mean, watch some tv or movies or read some scary books (Mr. Mercedes). The Ice Cream Man is probably a serial killer, or a pedophile, or a drug dealer, or a demon trapping kids into an alternate reality (Charmed), yet one drives past my house every day playing that creepy song.

Just sayin.


2. Topics off the top of my head because I don't have to think of them anymore:
Get off my lawn
Electric lemonade
Just doing it for the money
Olly Olly Oxen Free
When the pressure's off


3. Trends - People farming wikipedia for random facts and then posting "WOW AMAZING!" articles on click bait sites.
People "publishing" really really really bad "novels" on Amazon for four bucks because they can.

4. ::grumbles at n3m3sis43:: And I had just finally decided to make a memoir my nano project for this year.

5. I need a novel idea before Saturday.

6. Why doesn't memoir end in an e?

[n3m3sis43.livejournal.com]

I love some memoirs. Yours would probably be good!! And anyway, NaNo is for what speaks to us that we need the extra push to write, right? Do it do it do it.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

YES

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

+1 on the idea of continuing with your epic..I would love to read more on that..but then if your mind takes you elsewhere I can understand..:)

[eternal-ot.livejournal.com]

Open to suggestions on Open topic..any dares I could take up? No promises though..:P Try, I might.(well..good thing..I don't have to Google asap...Bad thing..A blank mind!)