Concession

[inteus_mika]

This has been a fantastic experience, and I want to thank everyone who has contributed to it.  What began as an experiment over the course of these last few months became a pleasure.  But now it is time to close this chapter and move on for a while

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[inteus_mika]

Thank you very much. It isn’t that I mind a little healthy competition. I don’t. But I came here initially because I stumbled upon it in LJ about the same time Shima was encouraging me to write for a bigger audience, and I decided to try and determine whether or not people are genuinely interested in reading about stories of my life, because I balked at the notion at first, thinking, who am I that anyone would care?

People here certainly have been kind. But it’s hard to tell if that’s just a result of the competition. I’d thought perhaps the home game (or another community) might be a better place to be sure, so that whether or not someone is going to vote for a story doesn’t have any influence on how I tell it, and instead the truth just comes out as it happened. Not that I haven’t told the truth yet, but last week, I babbled a bit about 60s TV shows, thinking maybe voters would like shorter pieces better. When it did have a positive effect on the voting, I was a little disappointed, because that submission took nowhere near the effort, nor was it anywhere near as significant to me personally, or to life in general, as other, more complex stories of my experiences that have actually made a difference in my life.

I’m just figuring since I’m not trying to win, whether I “go home” now or 4 - 5 weeks from now doesn’t really make much of a difference, but whether or not people who are reading are doing so without ulterior motivation is more likely to produce genuine results for this “experiment.” ;)