Vote - Week 32

[clauderainsrm]

A few words from clauderainsrm:
When I was planning out this Season, I wasn’t sure how it was going to go. This was unexplored territory, a season that wasn’t “supposed to happen” in the twilight of Livejournal

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[clauderainsrm]

A stat that is probably interesting to only me:

Take a look at the list of winners from "Full Seasons".

Seasons 1, 2 and 3 the winners all had names that were on the back section of the alphabet.

4, 5, 6, and 7 were all from the beginning.

8 and 9 went back to the back.

This is the first time that there will be someone that isn't from one of the extremes in the winner rankings! It will either be a M or a P!

[joeymichaels]

We mini-season/Exhibit people broke new ground when it came to alphabetical concerns.

[clauderainsrm]

You absolutely did. These folks are building on the foundation you left them - and turning that into full season magic!

[joeymichaels]

I, for one, welcome our new middle-of-the-alphabet supreme leader.

[marlawentmad]

I definitely took a lot of moments before jumping. I hadn't written fiction in years, and I had only started sharing my poetry at small gatherings in the past year. It was only Suesniffsglue's persistence in suggesting I enter the fray which gave me the sea legs to get aboard. I am forever grateful to be a part of this strange voyage, wherever it lands me next week.

[penpusher]

There really is a lot to say here, but I would edit it down to say this.

LJ Idol is, at its heart, a writing workshop. And that's one of its greatest triumphs. Being able to get out there, be able to write material and get feedback from readers is something every writer DREAMS of, and that is the element that should keep it alive and going for as long as we can.

No matter who wins, this has been a winning season and I think most people would agree, we had some tremendous work created this year.

On the alphabetical, it feels like those of us that are in the "middle" of the pack never have an advantage in the standard voting polls. We're never at the top or the bottom of the list and we can get lost in the shuffle, especially in the early weeks when there are dozens of writers.

This page 3 Vet of the Modern Era salutes you and the efforts that have kept LJ Idol going all these seasons.

[hwango]

There were some who had absolutely no clue whatsoever what was going on.

I still have no idea what's going on.

But here we are at the end. I realized later that in my acceptance speech (that is to say, the speech in which I was forced to accept that I'd been eliminated) I failed to acknowledge our glorious overlord. So, just wanted to say "thanks," Gary, for all that you put into this. It must take an extraordinary amount of time and effort to write prompt posts, write discussion posts, manage polls, send crippling nightmares to people who didn't work on their entries on a particular day, and attend to all of the other myriad tasks required to keep such an activity up and running for almost a year. I was happy to be a part of the madness, and I hope there will be another season in the future. If nothing else, it would be terrible to miss the opportunity for jokes about the competition "going to eleven."