Work Room - Week 29

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

The new topic is up: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/807797.html

People don't usually consider the "Survivor's guilt" that happens when you outlast someone that you have been rooting for over the course of the competition. After all - when it's "not you" going, that means it's someone else - most likely someone that you have come to like and admire.

So, what do you do about it?

The same thing you do in any other circumstance - you make their passing matter. Harness that energy, that emotion you are feeling, and use it to write something even better. Show that you *deserve* that spot. Even if you are feeling sad about someone else not having it!

How can you do that?

Only you can answer that question.

But I can *ask* a different, but related, question to the those who remain: What do you want to see out of the contestants? What would you like to see more of? Less of? What is it that you are responding to that you just wish that more people would realize?

Comments

Re: Gauntlet: thrown

[lrig-rorrim.livejournal.com]

I'll turn the question around on you - what genres or styles of things do you just not do, for whatever reason? Horror? Politics? Something visual or interactive? Try to find a way into something you normally avoid!

Edited to add: That's basically what I'm doing - someone said to me, well, what do you avoid. Romance is one of the things I just... don't... do. So I'm trying to figure out how to make it go. Because it's hard. Because it's a challenge. Because gauntlets, that's why. ;)

Re: Gauntlet: thrown

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't typically write horror, because I don't like the genre (I've seen maybe a handful of horror type movies, I don't read those sorts of books), although there have been some minor horror elements a time or two in my writing - I think the most recent of which was Week 2 (The Missing Stair (http://roina-arwen.livejournal.com/1650348.html)) so it has been a good long while, and I could easily try to write something darker than my usual, for sure.

I detest politics in general, and I'm not much of a strategist.

So yeah - I could try to challenge myself to write something dark/creepy/horrific... We'll see how it goes. If you have any suggestion for a plot device, etc., just toss it my way.