Green Room - Week 18 - Day 1
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therealljidolHow do you want Exhibit B to be remembered?
That is the power that is in your hands, right now.
It’s the power that has been in your hands the entire time. But not everyone stops to think about that on a regular basis.
Will it be looked on as welcoming? As divisive? Will the positivity win out or the negativity?
You are the best, and the worst ambassadors LJ Idol has. You go out into the world and either make it look good, or look bad by what you do and what you say.
In the end, more people should be walking away with that feeling you get when you have just walked off a rollercoaster and are just so overwhelmed with emotions… hopefully more people feel the rush of “I want to do that again!!” than are vomiting into the bushes.
One comforting thing is that, regardless of the atmosphere at the end, that I don’t have to worry about who is going to win. I’ve fortunate that the writers have all been of such quality that I knew that no one mattered who ended up in the winner’s circle, that it was going to be someone extremely talented.
The results are up from last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/696245.html
As if the new topic: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/696365.html
My hope is that Exhibit B will finish out with the same sort of energy that Exhibit A did… with a rush of “I can’t wait until we can do that again!”
That is the power that is in your hands, right now.
It’s the power that has been in your hands the entire time. But not everyone stops to think about that on a regular basis.
Will it be looked on as welcoming? As divisive? Will the positivity win out or the negativity?
You are the best, and the worst ambassadors LJ Idol has. You go out into the world and either make it look good, or look bad by what you do and what you say.
In the end, more people should be walking away with that feeling you get when you have just walked off a rollercoaster and are just so overwhelmed with emotions… hopefully more people feel the rush of “I want to do that again!!” than are vomiting into the bushes.
One comforting thing is that, regardless of the atmosphere at the end, that I don’t have to worry about who is going to win. I’ve fortunate that the writers have all been of such quality that I knew that no one mattered who ended up in the winner’s circle, that it was going to be someone extremely talented.
The results are up from last night: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/696245.html
As if the new topic: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/696365.html
My hope is that Exhibit B will finish out with the same sort of energy that Exhibit A did… with a rush of “I can’t wait until we can do that again!”
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Date: 2013-09-20 02:48 pm (UTC)When one is weary, it's easy to be snippy, snarky, emotional, etc. It's one of the reasons why I've been trying to stay offline lately. I'm not pointing this solely toward Idol, btw, but because Idol is a huge part of my online life, it's included.
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Date: 2013-09-20 03:25 pm (UTC)I've certainly experienced more than a little of that "people on the edge snapping" first hand. It feels like more than I've had in some time. But that could be recency bias.
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Date: 2013-09-20 05:10 pm (UTC)I have no idea if Mercury is in retrograde, however.
Seriously -- I seldom complain about customers, but we've had some real doozies recently. It's like somebody blew a high frequency horn and they came out of the woodwork.
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Date: 2013-09-20 05:14 pm (UTC)Nope. Not til October.
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Date: 2013-09-20 05:11 pm (UTC)To put it in another context: I tend to be a pretty "laissez-faire" mom, allowing KFP, in our unstructured moments, to play and explore the way he wants (provided he's not doing anything unsafe). But when I'm tired, all my patience goes out the window. I find myself snapping at him for doing the same thing -- such as banging his wooden hammer on different surfaces to check out the sounds -- that I found perfectly acceptable earlier in the week.
Keeping this in mind, I don't know what your plans are, but I would recommend a break of at least a couple months before beginning Season 9. Maybe you could kick it off in January, after the winter holidays are over, when people are feeling energized and renewed? In the meantime, I would love to see the Green Rooms remain active on at least a weekly basis, addressing writing topics and/or proposing topics for people to write for fun.
As always, I'd be happy to brainstorm with you or anyone else via e-mail (shantipoet at gmail).
I tend to be a pretty enthusiastic ambassador for LJI, since so much of the essays and fiction I've written in the last few years that I'm currently either publishing or sharing came from the contest.
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Date: 2013-09-20 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-20 06:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-09-20 05:32 pm (UTC)