In an effort to challenge myself to write more, I'm participating in the upcoming LJ Idol Season 8 set to begin soon. As much as I hate deadlines, I need to set a fire under my arse in hopes that it will force me to produce.
I hung out with an old friend for for a few hours the other night. Whenever we get together it's like an episode of Waking Life. We talk endlessly about ideas, the universe, mythology, transformation, anthropology, the human mind, etc. One of the things we talked about is our creative frustrations and the possibility of doing a small literary publication, which is an idea I've been chewing on since I attended the San Francisco ZineFest last month. With this post, I light a match.
I hung out with an old friend for for a few hours the other night. Whenever we get together it's like an episode of Waking Life. We talk endlessly about ideas, the universe, mythology, transformation, anthropology, the human mind, etc. One of the things we talked about is our creative frustrations and the possibility of doing a small literary publication, which is an idea I've been chewing on since I attended the San Francisco ZineFest last month. With this post, I light a match.
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Here's their profile page: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/profile
If you want to participate (please do!) go here and follow the directions: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/485253.html
I'm usually the type who'll plow forward thinking, "No worries, I can figure it out as I go along" but this seems quite intense, for lack of a better word.
Do you know anyone who has done it before? Have you been a reader/voter in past years?
The creative side of me likes the idea of prompts and deadlines for the fire-under-the-ass incentive to write, but the accountantly side of me is worried about not understanding and following the rules. *sigh* I'll re-read again tomorrow and see if it seems any clearer.
Edited at 2011-10-17 01:32 am (UTC)
Basicly, you get a topic each week, write whatever you are inspired to write on the topic (fiction, nonfic, essay, poetry, et al) in your own journal. Post a link to your entry in the LJI topic thread before the deadline. At the end of the deadline, a poll will be posted with links to everyone's entries, and you read and vote for as many as you want to -- and ALWAYS vote for yourself, as well. Trust me, that one vote can make a HUGE difference some weeks! Then the poll ends, the bottom vote-getters get eliminated, and it starts all over again with a new topic.
Once we really get into the swing of it, Gary (aka
I know you'll do excellent.
As far as the "excitement" goes, it's going to be an exercise in non-attachment for me.....an exercise in which I will completely fail despite my best intentions not to care. It will be brutal for my ego when I am eliminated or fail to meet a deadline, but hopefully I'll get some good writing in before that happens.
And the thing, in my opinion, is to write quick. Don't get yourself an excuse about being late to miss a deadline. Once you see the topic spend an hour as soon as possible and write something--the first thing that comes to mind. You don't have to post it or link it right away. If something better comes to mind, you can always re-write. But your first instinct is often the best. I've never missed a deadline, but I feel like my most half-assed ideas come from kicking around too many things too long and then trying to force something.
You know you wanna! Besides, you're one of my favorites, and I'd love to see you back again.
I signed up.