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]

See, you're one of the most varied writers out there, so yeah... hmmmmmm....have you done much YA? I'd love to see what you'd do with something like this (http://kindling.neocities.org/) (that's icaruslived's entry for "kindling"), or any other interactive kind of medium, but that's certainly a challenge on the time limits we have...

Re: Gauntlet: thrown

[dmousey.livejournal.com]

I'm an eclectic writer also. I've no idea what I'm actually good at if I'm truthful. I just scribble and try to glue it altogether. :)

Re: Gauntlet: thrown

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

I admit to never really having understood exactly what YA is?

And my secret dream is to make a good old text adventure, but that's such a bloody time sink! And alas, in LJI not many people have time to click through and actually do these things.

Hmmm *ponders*

Re: Gauntlet: thrown

[jem0000000.livejournal.com]

YA is like 12-18 or so, but I usually aim for the older end of that -- 16-18 or even 16-20. It's more or less writing normally but minding your themes (because it's sort of a "just starting out in life" sort of thing, although not super strongly coming-of-age the way teen stories are) -- but it can sometimes help to write the voice, the protagonist, or both as being 18-25 or so, or whatever the equivalent is for the culture you're using.