LJ Idol Presents:

You did! Congratulations!

Although these days, posting before 1pm is almost a guarantee to get first!

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ryl.livejournal.com

I'm taking it as a reward for getting to a negotiable stopping point on the story I've been beating my head against for three weeks.

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Congratulations on getting to a stopping point.

Looks like we've come to a stopping point for Green Rooms as well. :)

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jexia

Words.

Gone.

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Those appear to be two words. :)

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jexia

I have another two words for you, Gary ;)

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Awww - "you rock" too!! :)

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jexia

Heehee :P

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Well, c'mon. When you start a Green Room by running into the brick wall of Godwin's Law, there's nowhere else to go. ;-) Cut us some slack! (The onlookers, I mean. Please continue to torture the current contestants with reckless abandon, so that my Schadenfreude levels can escalate over 5000.)

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I put up a post - no one comments.

I mention that I might not put up any more posts - and suddenly people show up. ;)

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Nah, my post was independent of that. I make no apologies for slow commenting; as someone living in the godless frozen north™, it's hard to reach a keyboard through the snow dunes.

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We haven't got the snow dunes here in the upper midwest so much, but it's freakin' cold. It'll be a balmy -7 fahrenheit tonight - which makes going anywhere pretty unattractive.

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Hahahahaha, yes! Godwin's Law!!!!! (You are far too clever, mr. lettersea.)

G, make more "that's what she said" jokes, or tell us about your PMs being forwarded.

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Those don't even get a lot of comments!

Or maybe people are too busy forwarding their responses to other people instead of posting them! :)

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*claps*

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If there's an upside to being voted out of yon scramble to the top of this here Mountain of Arms™, it's that I can dedicate 5.75% more brainpower to my wit. ;-)

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An upside!

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My loss is your gain? :-D

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I definitely plan on torturing the current contestants. Although, from the sounds of it, they are already cracking under the strain.

Writing one thing a week for almost a year (well, less than that, since this is Week 38) might end up breaking more people than your average Hell Week. (and that hasn't even happened, yet!)

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The story I wrote this week was the 55th thing I've produced for this season. Now, that's partially because I had a silly alt early on, but daaaaaaamn that's a lot of writing.

Trust me, I'm feeling plenty tortured. Also, lucky. Because hey, I've had the opportunity and impetus to produce all these things! ;)

I have no idea if I'm cracking under the strain. I'm already so cracked I don't know if I'd notice. Heh.

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So you are saying that I should up the torture-levels then? ;)

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And this is why it's safest to keep my mouth shut. Heh.

Ehhhh, who am I kidding? We all know it's all torture all the time on the menu soon enough, no matter what I say! ;)

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You can opt for the Prix Fixe menu of torture, but it won't be as satisfying.

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I admit, I'm saving my strength because I kinda want to try to Home Game Hell Week. (Hell Game?)

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You, my friend, are noodle doodle. Heh.

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Winter's driving me nuts, I'm going stir crazy here.
Also, need a break from WIP.

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jexia

I've pretty much cried for three days straight. If next week is Hell Week, I'd probably quit. My family is in too much stress as it is.

In another week it'd be a different story.

Edited Date: 2015-02-19 09:23 pm (UTC)

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Is it Idol that is causing so much stress for you? I'm sorry you're feeling so overwhelmed.

An endless amount of creative energy is simply not possible.

Do you need an ear or a shoulder?

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jexia

This week's piece: http://jexia.livejournal.com/1351309.html

My family is high-needs at the moment, for a variety of reasons, and Idol is just another thing to do.

Edited Date: 2015-02-19 09:34 pm (UTC)

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hosticle-fifer.livejournal.com

I so feel you there. My wife and I both work - I have a full-time job and she has a professional writing gig. (It's a lot like Idol now that I think of it; one of her employers will pop up and say "write me a thousand word article on canning vegetables by 2PM today".)

Both of our small children are home from kindergarten due to the freezing cold, and need constant care. My son pooped on the floor this afternoon, his first accident in over a year. And speaking of the cold, we're out freezing our asses off trying to make sure our chickens don't freeze to death.

Tomorrow my sister is getting married. So I have to have all my work done by close of business today.

And an entry in by 9.

That Red Cross van is just parked next to that rock, poking it with needles. ;)

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jexia

Oh god the poop. My boy twin was still regularly pooping in his undies until past four and a half. It was very hard to like being around him.

Good luck with the work, and enjoy the wedding! Hope the weather doesn't interfere too much.

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jexia

Cheering you on! Happy to proofread - message me or whatever.

Same for you,

suesniffsglue!

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Yikes. :( I'm really sorry you've been having such a hard time of it. Hang in there, and do something nice for yourself - even something small - if you can.

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jexia

There's always Rule 34.

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With Nazis?
Not my shade of grey, but hey, whatever works ...?

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jexia

"the last of the "dreaded topics""

^ happiest phrase EVAH.

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I'll call it now: Hell Week will be writing all six of them ... again.

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jexia

...in intersections...

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kickthehobbit.livejournal.com

...after three straight days of panicking (because, oh God champions, I am so bad at the ask, I don't know anyone outside of Idol who writes and I keep my lj VERY SEPARATE from my Real Life for a bunch of reasons, mostly including crazy family that will threaten to disown me Yet Again)—it's done and it's posted and if

fodschwazzle and his wife are ever in Oregon I'm buying them both a beer.

I can happily say that I didn't give a damn about which topic I had to pick. I had ideas for the final one I had remaining (since I did the hard ones first). It was actually finding someone to serve as a champion that almost killed me. I had a panic attack the night the guidelines went up—first time in years—and didn't formally start writing anything until yesterday afternoon...at which point I wrote about 6K words, which is a horrifying new record, even for me.

fod and

lrig_rorrim calmed me down some, and

gratefuladdict provided levity, as always, but I have to say...

Writing a bunch of different topics in a super-short period of time for Hell Week? Fine.

Making me talk to other people, thus reminding me that I have what a therapist once called "the worst case of social anxiety I have ever seen without accompanying agoraphobia"? NO. :P

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crisp-sobriety.livejournal.com

*hugs* I'm sorry.

I wasn't happy about the champion idea either, for a lot of the same reasons (I'm something of a hermit). I'm glad you managed to get it sorted. :)

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kickthehobbit.livejournal.com

Yeah. I finally just sucked it up and went, "I don't know anyone who would be an 'ideal' champion for Gary without bringing in people I know IRL, and I'm not comfortable with that...so I'm going to go ahead, ask someone I wanted to write with but didn't get the chance to, and hope that they say yes and don't think I'm weird."

...

fodschwazzle said yes. Not so sure about the "weird" thing. :)

I guess I should clarify the "people I know irl" and explain.

Outside of my partner/roommate, everyone that knows I have an lj is someone I met on the internet. I lead pretty separate professional/personal lives, for a bunch of reasons—I'm queer and it's actually sort of a Big Deal for what I do, unfortunately; ditto the "having a mental illness" thing—and I have been burned, very badly, by my family finding my journal. These days it's an "open secret", but I still prefer maintaining that level of division, and I didn't want to ask anyone that didn't already know about my journal...thus limiting the pool.

Being closeted, even partially, sucks, y'all.

Edited Date: 2015-02-19 10:59 pm (UTC)

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