Work Room - Week 29
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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?
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?
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Date: 2014-11-22 03:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-11-22 07:06 am (UTC)- write a story about a painter who loses his arm, and the gauntlet fashioned for him changes his work in strange (possibly terrible? possibly wonderful?) ways.
- write a story about a duel with laser pistols at dawn on an asteroid, sprinkling the back story about the insult and the relationship between the duelists in using flashbacks
- write a story about an alien trying to pass as human, and the gauntlet of tiny tasks and tests it has to go through each day just to get by undetected.
Choose one. ;) If you're feeling particularly uh, ambitious, choose more than one? Heh.
Seriously, I hope those help. They're free for the taking. Ideas I've got aplenty. It's executing them that's the tricky bit. If you're feeling stuck, though, just grab onto something and run with it. Even if you write something lousy, you'll have written, and even mud can be polished into art (http://www.dorodango.com/create.html).
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Date: 2014-11-22 03:30 pm (UTC)