LJ Idol Presents:

I just vote for pieces I like. I follow the links off the poll page, and I assume if something's linked to the poll page, then it was submitted on time!

After-the-fact editing is a more interesting question for me... To assume that an LJ Idol submission has the inalienability of God's scrit on Moses's stone tablet just strikes me as a blow to the heart of the creative process. If you're a creative person who's deeply involved with something you're creating, the spigot doesn't go off. That's not the way it works. If you think of a change, something that makes your story closer to your creative goal for it, then by golly, I want to read it!

That's just me, of course.

And I'm trying to think if I've ever edited anything beyond obvious typos after the fact... I don't think I have, but I really can't remember back through all 29 weeks!