Finish-a-thon reminder

[kerravonsen]

Don't forget to sign up for the Finish-a-thon! Give me something other than slash to vote for, please! (Well, I'm not going to vote for the slash ones, actually. I'll abstain.) Mistral? Beth? Helen? Liza? Liz? Tara? Rachel? BK? (Okay, Rebecca, I know that novel-writing is more important, ditto Una...)

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[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I'll pimp this again on my LJ tomorrow...I'm going to pester at least one person (maybe a couple more), and they write gen which would be good....

[*looks at new signups* I thought I'd be the only one putting up Numb3rs ideas.... Ack! Eww! *sporks out eyes*]

[kerravonsen]

Ack! Eww! *sporks out eyes*
The incest one, yes? You can see why I was prompted to make this appeal. There seemed to be more gen last year...

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

If I had suitable WiPs, I'd post them in the cause of encouraging more plotty gen. My brain's almost entirely been eaten by original fiction these days, though.

[kerravonsen]

Ah yes, I should have put you in the list of "people what are writing novels".

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

I thought you wouldn't want me to sign up, since I haven't finished the story from the last one yet. But I will if you want me to... should I put that one up again?

[kerravonsen]

Well, it's like NaNoWriMo -- the idea is to try to finish, with encouragement. I'm only down on people who didn't bother to even write a note last time.

should I put that one up again?

Who knows, people might vote for a different one this time. Yes, put it up again.

But, if you really feel that you don't think you will be able to finish, and that all it will do for you is make you feel blue and discouraged, then for goodness' sake, don't sign up.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Eh, no, I'm blue and discouraged all the time anyway. It's trying over and over and over to do things that keeps me going (yes, I'm still working on NaArMaMo; just not getting anywhere). Can't finish if you don't try. I'll think about what to put up for voting--prod me on the day if I forget.

[tptigger.livejournal.com]

I'll pass, sorry. Ficathons are scary. (Yes, I am thinking about NaNoWriMo, but at least if I don't finish that, I'm the only one annoyed.)

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Uhm, sorry, I though I wasn't eligible!

I'll look at my sceduel, hopefully I won't be overtaxing myself...

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that one. *shudder* Sometimes I hate being in a fandom where the main characters are siblings.... *sigh*

Mistral better get over there and put up some nice gen ideas. ;-)

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Oh, I keep forgetting to say how much that icon of Blair amuses me. Hee.

[kerravonsen]

Why on earth not? The only people who are disqualified from participating this year are ladyjanelly, alicamel and wizefics, because they didn't even bother to write a note or post anything.
Note that I've changed the rules this year so that you don't have to post anything if you didn't finish if you don't want to (you just have to send me a note saying "Sorry, I didn't finish") -- I got the impression last time that some people really hated having to post unfinished stuff. If it seems like I'm down on people for not finishing, it's because I want people to take it seriously, not just consider it as something optional.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

I couldn't remember if I'd gotten word to you early enough or not.

And I really appreciate not having to post the WIP - though I might anyway, depending on where I get it to...

*sigh* the only trouble now is narrowing it down to ten.

IS it okay if I don't include the one I had voted on last year? I'm really terribly blocked by it.

[kerravonsen]

IS it okay if I don't include the one I had voted on last year? I'm really terribly blocked by it.

Certainly. Don't include anything you don't want to write. I must admit, I considered not including the one that came second last time, because I'd rather write one of the other ones, but I decided that I still did want to write it somewhat, so I included it anyway.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

*nods*

Well, I've got a poll up on my lj, and while I'm not going to blindly take the top ten, it will help me pick what I DO want.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

*hugs mistral* Don't be blue, we love you!

(Okay, no idea why I'm so perky right now; possibly a caffiene overdose? heh.)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

*hugs mistral* Don't be blue, we love you!

::hugs back:: I know you do, and it means more than you can imagine. But RL sucks, and all the hugs in the world unfortunately cannot fix it. I have to keep telling myself, "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." Helps some. Not much, but some.

And honestly? All the caffeine in the world wouldn't make me perky. Wired and even more insane, but not perky. ;-)

[kerravonsen]

Well, I'm going to give you a virtual hug anyway.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Thank you! ::hugs back::