Here are a few posts I really enjoyed this week that aren't exactly crushing the polls. Please know I'm not just promoting my friends here (THIS time!) - these are posts that seriously caught my attention and I don't get why they're not doing better.
momebie's story managed to make me ship two characters I've never seen before in my life:http://momebie.livejournal.com/915706.h
tatdatcm has created a compelling universe and continues to build on it this week:http://tatdatcm.livejournal.com/46355.h
talonkarrde88 got sidetracked by work but still came through with an intriguing story:http://talonkarrde88.livejournal.com/37
There are 10 people being eliminated this week. That's a quarter of the remaining contestants! So if you like these entries or any others, please make sure to go here and vote for them in the first poll. You don't have to be playing or join the community to vote.
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next month: Exhibit A ends
some time in the summer: Exhibit B occurs
late autumn: season 9 starts
*flail*flail*flail*
Sorry, back to the scheduled broadcast.
I'm starting to wish I could see his best work instead of his rushed work, and feeling insulted as a reader that he doesn't value me enough to deliver it.
He's a freaking awesome writer but I also know what it's like to bust your ass to get the best piece you can write despite a million other obligations. Obviously, so do you. That piece that got me near-eliminated and into the runoff I dropped out of at the end of last season was the result of staying up all night even though I had to work the next day. I worked hard as hell and I was proud of it. I sacrificed a lot to put forth the best pieces I could. So I can see your point there.
It's honestly not about 'oh man, I'm so good at this' - far from it. It's just how I work, generally, and as seen, sometimes that has the repercussions of not having as much time as I wanted to have. That being said, I've tried just sitting around and writing before the deadline, and in an overwhelming majority of cases nothing good comes out.
My point in mentioning the time was actually to inform — I know some people are sticklers about the rules in submissions, and I think that it would be deceitful if I said 'oh, yeah, I got this in completely on time'. It wasn't meant at all to be a 'oh, I'm better than everyone else that takes longer to do it'.