It's not the result I was expecting to be announcing when I looked at the polls this morning. Or this afternoon. Or really even an hour ago
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It honestly isn't the first time something like this has happened to me, though the last time it was much more "epic," and involved multiple tribes based on which prompt was chosen... me being the person who doesn't like to do what everyone else is doing, I avoided the most obvious "easy" route like the plague, and ended up competing against only three other people, one of whom ended up winning that whole season, another who I believe made top very small number, and one who was a crowd favorite... we were 4 powerhouses nobody wanted to see going head to head at that stage of the game, because someone was going home, and it would have been far too early for any of us under normal circumstances... it was the one "tribe" that garnished the most votes of any that week, because everyone wanted to weigh in on which of us to keep. In the end, I wasn't the bottom of the 4, but someone had a bouncing immunity that was given to the one who was, and so my fate was decided by one person who wanted to save a friend, and the margin from top to second from bottom to top was pretty lean, just like this week. That stung quite a bit, too, but there's a bittersweet element of knowing what it took to get me out didn't really have anything to do with my writing, so, yeah, I do take that into account, and it makes it better.
I do plan to continue writing, because that fulfills me, and that's why I'm here. I'm hoping to find some venue that removes the "contest" element.* ;-)
*I keep saying that, and I always do have the best intentions to get around to searching for such a thing, but then life happens, and I never do, and someone at some point turned me onto this little incestuous corner of the internet, and it's the devil I know I apparently just can't get enough of, as I've kept coming back to it for the last 12 years! XD
It honestly isn't the first time something like this has happened to me, though the last time it was much more "epic," and involved multiple tribes based on which prompt was chosen... me being the person who doesn't like to do what everyone else is doing, I avoided the most obvious "easy" route like the plague, and ended up competing against only three other people, one of whom ended up winning that whole season, another who I believe made top very small number, and one who was a crowd favorite... we were 4 powerhouses nobody wanted to see going head to head at that stage of the game, because someone was going home, and it would have been far too early for any of us under normal circumstances... it was the one "tribe" that garnished the most votes of any that week, because everyone wanted to weigh in on which of us to keep. In the end, I wasn't the bottom of the 4, but someone had a bouncing immunity that was given to the one who was, and so my fate was decided by one person who wanted to save a friend, and the margin from top to second from bottom to top was pretty lean, just like this week. That stung quite a bit, too, but there's a bittersweet element of knowing what it took to get me out didn't really have anything to do with my writing, so, yeah, I do take that into account, and it makes it better.
I do plan to continue writing, because that fulfills me, and that's why I'm here. I'm hoping to find some venue that removes the "contest" element.* ;-)
*I keep saying that, and I always do have the best intentions to get around to searching for such a thing, but then life happens, and I never do, and someone at some point turned me onto this little incestuous corner of the internet, and it's the devil I know I apparently just can't get enough of, as I've kept coming back to it for the last 12 years! XD
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