LJ Idol Presents:

 The Week 4 Sudden Death Write Off is happening right now. therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1150733.html

But so is the new prompt for Week 5 therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1151017.html

I'm hesitant to go into details to avoid jinxing it. But this has the potential to be a HUGE week in Idol history. If it happens, don't worry, I'll definitely be posting about it.  :) 

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The rain just started here. Right now it looks like Debby is just going to be a tropical storm as it comes by us. But it's going to be a hurricane much sooner than original projected. So who knows.  Either way it's not expected to be too bad... there is definitely a LOT more coverage than usual about it. Which makes me wonder if it's just for the newbies in the area (there are a LOT of them). But honestly I have to think that if you keep hyping up how serious a storm is and it's not much of anything, if you are just making it harder for them to take the REAL threats seriously when it's a 4 or 5 hurricane. 

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Speaking of taking things seriously. It's time for me to ask a few more questions, calling out specific people.  :) 

gunwithoutmusic  -      Poetry has always been risky in Idol. There have been times with it's done really well, but that has been very specific people writing at very specific times. For this mini season you've been only writing poetry so far. Was that a conscious choice coming into the mini season or just how it has worked out so far?  (on a side note penumbra  was actually on the list of prompts. But I moved it back to the reserve list after your list entry this week. So for once someone else looked over my shoulder rather than me looking over theirs) 

chasing_silver  - Your work has always been strongly tied to a sense of  time and "place". So seeing an entry about moving into your new home made a lot of sense to me.  I know you mentioned in the footnote about how you came to connect uncanny valley with seeing the remnants of the former owner's lives, but I'm curious about other ideas you might have played with in the process to come up with that.  Was there an "eureka" moment of when your brain made that jump or has that moment just been sitting in your brain waiting for the right opportunity to emerge? 

off_fleek_geek - Is podcast fanfic a thing now? It makes sense that it would exist, but honestly this is my first experience with it. I suppose it's more for genre podcasts than it is "current events" or interview based podcasts though. (That would be "interesting") But I digress, this was a fun entry. What was it about the prompt that made you think that the podcast would be the perfect vehicle for this story?  It could have existed on it's own, but the framing format really seemed to add to it, so I think that was a good call. Just wondering about your process coming to that conclusion. 

 I was asked in a previous thread if there were going to be any special twists or rules for this mini season. Which is a fair question, since pretty much all of the mini seasons have had some sort of twist or special rule in the past. 

This is more of a "back to basics"/getting my feet wet again experience. I'm sure it's going to involve trial and error from everyone because it's been longer than normal between seasons.  Honestly, I'm not even sure how much of the same person I am right now. Figuring out how that is going to impact the experience, maybe that's the twist.  :) 

Then again, hopefully everyone has had some changes in their lives (for the better) since we were last gathered. I know not everyone can say their changes were for the better unfortunately. But hopefully those  (somehow) ultimately lead to better changes down the road. 

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Sign ups are still slow, but they are starting to pick up a little. So please keep spreading the word!  I know that there are people who only found out this was happening because their other friends were posting about it. therealljidol.dreamwidth.org/1138078.html

Thanks to those who have donated and those who have joined the Patreon.  I'll be posting more "Pretentious Drivel" soon  www.patreon.com/user

I'm not sure if it amuses me more or causes me more angst actually putting my old writing out there in the world. Probably a little of both. But it has started serving it's purpose of making me think more about writing. (to be determined if that is "I should do more of it" or "What the hell was I thinking actually writing this grap?"  ;) 




If the plasma center was closer I would have already been there... has anyone done that? What was the experience like?