Second Chance Idol
Dec. 21st, 2018 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babydramatic_1950 This is my post "signing up" for Second Chance Idol.
I did Idol about 9 years ago (I think it was 2009, my last year working in an office). I came in 27th out of about 240 people. I got that number because by the time I was voted off, there were 26 people left. That doesn't mean that I wrote better than all the people I "surpassed"; a lot of them, including some brilliant writers, dropped out.
I had a very ugly experience with keeping a personal Livejournal (I made the mistake of "friending" people I envied, rather than liked, and who certainly didn't much like me, got into a funk, wrote about being in a funk - it was my personal journal after all - got roundly chastised in public comments to my outpourings of misery by comparative strangers, and then scrapped the whole thing by deleting my journal.) Idol was probably the one thing I did on Livejournal that I was proud of, so I tried to save as many of my entries as I could, but I wasn't able to save all of them.
Since then, I have been keeping a blog on blogger, for which I screen comments. Sadly, I don't get very many. If you're interested, it's babydramatic.blogspot.com/
Writing this first entry will be a challenge. I probably will barely have an hour to sit at the computer between December 26 and December 29, so I hope the deadline extends at least until the evening of the 30th, my first breather.
I did Idol about 9 years ago (I think it was 2009, my last year working in an office). I came in 27th out of about 240 people. I got that number because by the time I was voted off, there were 26 people left. That doesn't mean that I wrote better than all the people I "surpassed"; a lot of them, including some brilliant writers, dropped out.
I had a very ugly experience with keeping a personal Livejournal (I made the mistake of "friending" people I envied, rather than liked, and who certainly didn't much like me, got into a funk, wrote about being in a funk - it was my personal journal after all - got roundly chastised in public comments to my outpourings of misery by comparative strangers, and then scrapped the whole thing by deleting my journal.) Idol was probably the one thing I did on Livejournal that I was proud of, so I tried to save as many of my entries as I could, but I wasn't able to save all of them.
Since then, I have been keeping a blog on blogger, for which I screen comments. Sadly, I don't get very many. If you're interested, it's babydramatic.blogspot.com/
Writing this first entry will be a challenge. I probably will barely have an hour to sit at the computer between December 26 and December 29, so I hope the deadline extends at least until the evening of the 30th, my first breather.
I have no idea if anyone outside of Idol will bother to vote for me (presupposing that my entry is good of course!) I hope someone posts instructions as to how to sign up to vote if you don't have a DreamWidth account. Most of my personal friends are women my age and older who are even more stymied by techie stuff than I am (I have to deal with a lot of "techie stuff" in my freelance business, so I have been dragged kicking and screaming into the second decade of the twenty-first century).
But whatever the challenges of finding a time to write, I'm in!
