Oh I thought that's where I knew you from? It's a writing contest that used to be on Livejournal and used to be almost annual. There's a prompt every week and after each deadline there's voting that's either public or contestants only and the bottom vote getters get voted out, like a reality show. I hate reality shows but it actually makes for a good motivator to do some writing because one has not merely a deadline but the fear that one will be voted out if one doesn't cut it. Obviously and especially once the pool starts to get small politics begin to come into play a little bit, and I rather suspect the organizer secretly loves that but that's not until the game has gone for sometimes 20 weeks and by then I've ridden the ride long enough. And until then I feel like it's relatiely merit based, one can tell when one's writing isn't connecting with the audience. I think it's helped me a lot over the years.
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Date: 2024-06-28 08:55 am (UTC)Oh I thought that's where I knew you from? It's a writing contest that used to be on Livejournal and used to be almost annual. There's a prompt every week and after each deadline there's voting that's either public or contestants only and the bottom vote getters get voted out, like a reality show. I hate reality shows but it actually makes for a good motivator to do some writing because one has not merely a deadline but the fear that one will be voted out if one doesn't cut it. Obviously and especially once the pool starts to get small politics begin to come into play a little bit, and I rather suspect the organizer secretly loves that but that's not until the game has gone for sometimes 20 weeks and by then I've ridden the ride long enough. And until then I feel like it's relatiely merit based, one can tell when one's writing isn't connecting with the audience. I think it's helped me a lot over the years.