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[ciroccoj]

Oh buggre alle this for a larcke. Have to go pick up Daniel and switch over laundry and research and get dinner started and read and then arg - realize it's Thursday and once again I have no clue what to make up for a t100+ challenge and once again I haven't really carefully read most of the entries and probably haven't given much feedback and damn.

I've been dragging my ass with the community for months now. Since about midsummer, roughly. I'm just not really interested in fic right now - too much else going on. I'd hoped that I could keep it going until L&O:TBJ started, see if that inspired me, get back to being genuinely intersted in what people write instead of facing new fic with a tired "oh damn - ten entries since last time I read." But there's way too much else going on around me. Just reading alone takes up too much energy. Never mind dealing with writer egos, which usually make me want to shut the community right then and there. That "Account Status: Deleted" thing gets awfully tempting sometimes. And no, I would never really do that - I wouldn't even delete my own journal, let alone an lj community that has over a year's worth of other people's writing on it.

I think I'm going to have to either pass t100+ on to somebody else or shut it down. Probably the latter; it isn't seeing much action these days anyway, and there's plenty of other communities out there. I'll probably just leave it open for anyone to see and post if they want to, but stop putting up challenges.



Later: Back from picking up Daniel and in a much better mood - it's like spring out there! It's 10.7°C (51°F); I think we just got a chinook. In Ottawa!

Daniel's babysitter says we can expect lots of weather changes like this, since the earthquake that caused the tsunamis shifted the earth's axis by three degrees, and that will change the earth's climate.

::sigh::

Comments

[lonejaguar.livejournal.com]

I think generally fic is dead lately. I'm sure the holiday hiatus didn't help, but we've been discussing how the whole fandom slows when there's no new fic. It's hard to get inspired when no one else writes, too... I know I have the desire to write fic... it's just really hard to get it out of me these days.

I'd say don't shut it down. Leave it for whoever wants it. Challenges are really hard to come up with week after week, so I know how you feel. :/

[tudorlady.livejournal.com]

If you do pass it on, you must promise to pass on all of the weird pictures you collected for the picture challenge... Have you considered that maybe three or four people could co-run it, and take turns doing challenges?

I wish I could write more for it, but I don't do short pieces well (obviously) and there's work, school, more work... and pretty soon, with any luck, a Real Job, so... but that doesn't mean that I don't check it out every single week. I suspect that there a lot of folks doing the same.

[leaper182.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry... I would love to take over, but school's kicking *my* butt this semester too...

::warm hugs::

Still, methinks medee6040 has a good idea -- possibly pass it on to more than one person, have everybody suggest challenges...

I vote for the group idea

[animaltalker.livejournal.com]

and I recall a time when we submitted some ideas to you and that worked pretty good too.

[my-cat-tim.livejournal.com]

What is L & O: TBJ?

[my-cat-tim.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I must be really out of it lately, it is Law & Order: Trial By Jury, right?

EMOTION: Highly embarrassed!

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Three degrees? That would be impressive! What I read was 1 inch which I guess would translate into some very small fraction of a degree.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

Three degrees? That would be impressive!

... yeah, well... about Daniel's babysitter... she's a very sweet lady, and the kids love her, and she loves them. Unfortunately, she's not exactly the brightest bulb on the tulip bed. I have serious difficulty not rolling my eyes at some of the stuff she comes out with.

[bandgeek.livejournal.com]

Daniel's babysitter says we can expect lots of weather changes like this, since the earthquake that caused the tsunamis shifted the earth's axis by three degrees, and that will change the earth's climate.

What?! OMGfrets ...

Really, as I've been walking around in my spring jacket, I've been thinking about how this is just a little taste of what it will be like when global warming melts the polar ice caps and there will be a beach in Iowa ... I tend to worry about these things a lot.

[daf9.livejournal.com]

Should you still be looking for potential t100+ challenges ... might I suggest "Is this because I'm a lesbian?"

[my-cat-tim.livejournal.com]

LOL Daf!

That one is really funny, and it's a great idea too!

[bast2.livejournal.com]

if you could keep the community going until after i move and get the phone back on, i'd take it over for you--or perhaps volunteer to help with it with others. i don't want to see it shut down. you have more entries in your community than t100--and i'm very afraid it will shut down, too.

[heathers.livejournal.com]

FWIW, I think you run a fantastic community. I am seriously amazed at the thought you put into your challenges. I even based svu100 on how you moderate. I write in spurts and I'd love to contribute more. The body is willing but the muse has been on strike! I think the holidays totally killed a lot of people's fannishness. Actually, we went for something like 3-4 weeks on svu100 without a single respondent to the challenges over December.

Perhaps you could go back to posting a challenge every 2 weeks. That'd give you more time. I'd feel more comfortable if you stayed on board as moderator. I think you should challenge the group to come up with a stack of challenges so all you have to do is remember to post them. :) Make us work for our funtime!

-H