LJI Decathlon!
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aggienaut Good morning LJ Idol, and welcome to another episode of Meta-BBQ on the Fourth Wall Patio (sponsored by Acme Paperclip Co).
It's nice to see you are all commenting that you and your partners are just finishing up and posting your entries. Especially since I STILL DON'T HAVE A PARTNER. I hope you all have horribly awkward slow speed pedestrian collisions caused by you and a stranger botht trying to pass eachother on the same side of a hallway!!!
I kid I kid, I would never wish that on anyone some of you.
I've had a lovely day so far. Called Australia around 5am my time to get her just past midnight Valentine's day there, and then this afternoon while I was out on the bowsprit of the Pilgrim furling the foresail I got a text from Belgium (well via twitter) advising me of a potential LJI partner.
And incidentally then I went up to the top of the mast and stood on the royals yardarm (90 ft up or so) without holding on to anything, which I probably wouldn't have done if I'd known that my harness wasn't properly rigged on right at the time. Oops. (:
But on with your weekly dose of meta:
LJ IDOL DECATHLON!!!
In the spirit of the olympics, I am declaring an LJ Idol Decathlon!! This is of course not an "official" element of the game and is not sponsored by Gary or otherwise to be confused with the sanctity of official business, but it WAS cleared with him so you can be relatively confident participating won't get you burned at the stake for blasphemy.
The idea is this. I'm a big fan trying to submit a wide variety of different entries, and want to encourage everyone else to try out different things as well. So it's a decatholon of different techniques!
What I mean by this is, in order to complete the decathalon, one is to have at least one (and no extra points for more than one) entry in ten of the following categories. A single entry can count in multiple, and any official LJI entry previous to or after this is valid for consideration. The categories:
1. Non-fiction
2. Fiction
3. Serious
4. Humorous
5. Narrative
6. Essay
7. Verse
8. Prose
9. creepy - I'm talking twilight zone creepy
10. sci fi
11. drawn (2)
12. phone post (2)
13. vlog (3)
Edited-to-add:
15. Script (Screenplay / play / etc)
16. Historical Fiction
Edited-to-add: when going through past entries to see what qualifies, please keep in mind the purpose of this: to encourage you to write entries that may be significantly different from your existing entries. You may have an entry that is a little bit funny, but is it, you know, "a humorous entry?" You know what I'm talking about, those ones with something hilarious (or at least attempting to be) every few lines, humour running throughout -- a humorous entry. And the same goes for other categories. If you haven't done one that clearly would be identified as "a ______ entry," count it as something you still need to do!
The categories with a 2 or 3 count as 2 or 3 categories, respectively, because it takes a lot more effort to draw and edit something together. And phone posts, I don't know about you but I find it strangely difficult to get a phone post to sound like a well composed entry. And video, I don't have the faintest idea how to edit together and/or they're always a monster to upload and host somewhere so good luck with that.
If you can think of a category I forgot I'll take suggestions for additional categories. No there will not be a slash fic category.
I really hope some of you are up for this extra challenge, I know I can never resist an extra challenge personally. There will be no one winner so much as I'll make a list of those who successfully qualify as idol decathletes, and those who make the list can, you know, bask in the glory.
To officially* participate in the Decathlon, please comment to the comment, noting which of your entries fulfill which categories.
(*officially only under the authority of the Echidna Media Organization)
The LJI Luge has been cancelled.
Next season we'll have LJI Rhythmic Dance
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Date: 2010-02-13 10:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 10:54 pm (UTC)I'm still going to reserve the right to whine about being a pariah up until it is official (that the laft available person was forced to partner with me)! :D
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Date: 2010-02-13 10:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 10:57 pm (UTC)And to think you could have had me
killin UR voats.And to think I should be writing my piece now...
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 11:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 11:15 pm (UTC)(true story)
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:17 pm (UTC)Damn I really ought to stop joking about that. (And for the record my heart goes out to him, I have a deep respect for such athletes)
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-13 11:28 pm (UTC)Please comment noting your interest in participating and which entries you already have that fit categories (& what categories)
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:32 pm (UTC)Just a few questions about definitions:
Prose: The ordinary form of spoken or written language, without metrical structure, as distinguished from poetry or verse... (that means pretty much any post that is not verse, ennit?)
Essay: An essay is usually a short piece of writing which is quite often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. (Also a superbroad category, just wanted to make sure I understand the term)
Verse: Is it rhymed, or just poetry in general?
Narrative: A story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or fictitious. (Also really broad definition)
-- Just curious about what the definitions will be, since I am not a native speaker not an expert in literary terms.
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:35 pm (UTC)I suppose something that only consists of drawings might manage to be neither prose nor verse but I think you get the idea?
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:38 pm (UTC)I think my post this week should deserve its own category, but I'll wait until I post it before I say what the category is. ;)
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:41 pm (UTC)If there is only one photo, accompanying an otherwise narrative or essay entry, I don't think that bounces it into "other multimedia." Frankly I think all essays / narratives really could benefit from an addition of some multimedia. But certainly an entry that consists entirely (/primarily) of a photo essay would count as "other multimedia," and if they were ballsy enough just to post a single picture, well damn that would be ballsy. :D
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:45 pm (UTC)Hmmm it seems that I probably have nine of the categories at a glance, so I will either have a go at verse or brave the drawn one.
Such a tough choice...
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:50 pm (UTC)I wonder if
Does a vlog have to be filmed especially for Idol, or might I just post something I've filmed in the past and write about it? (I never had plans to do this, but you never know what might come up).
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:51 pm (UTC)But you can also have narrative non fiction.
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:52 pm (UTC)An entry can be:
(Ficton or Non-Fiction)
and
(serious or comedic)
and
(narrative or essay)
and
(verse or prose)
and
(creepy AND/or sci fi)
or it can be neither in most of those catogories, conceivably
Vlogs
Date: 2010-02-13 11:54 pm (UTC)I'm thinking if this is still going on when I'm back on the boat of doing a vlog from way up on the end of the highest yardarm on the boat, I think people would get a kick out of the view from up there (:
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Date: 2010-02-13 11:56 pm (UTC)Re: Vlogs
Date: 2010-02-13 11:59 pm (UTC)BUT I am a bit of a filmmaker, so maybe I'll see what I can do.
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Date: 2010-02-14 12:05 am (UTC)Not that I blame you - the reason I don't get emails any more is I just can't be bothered checking it and since I don't send anything these days, I never get anything back.
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Date: 2010-02-14 12:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-14 12:18 am (UTC)Re: Vlogs
Date: 2010-02-14 12:20 am (UTC)