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[lettered]

Not something I should be doing while I'm supposed to be writing. Especially since I called in sick today. But! Maybe if I build it, they will come, which means I won't have to sustain it. It's a cool idea; I just have trouble with follow through.

Over on livejournal, I started a comm called daily_words. It was supposed to have a new word every day. Trouble number one: I suck and didn't keep it up. Trouble two: I have trouble remembering the new words, even when I'm making posts about them. Except for stillicide. How could I forget stillicide? That's a good 'un.

So, my idea was to make a mirror comm, daily_words, but with a twist. It's actually a drabble community! A word gets posted once a day, and then if the word strikes you, or you really want to remember it, or the mood just is all upon you, you write a drabble using that word somewhere! And the drabble can be original or in any fandom. And possibly the drabble doesn't even have to be a drabble; possibly it just has to be short prose of at least 50 words, or a short poem.

Once DW gets that thing where you can put in posts and tell it when to post them, it might actually be plausible to keep the thing going. Another alternative is to ask people to volunteer to post words for a week/month/or day. Hm.

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[vaysh]

There will be a H/D LDWS next January. :) I'd love for you to sign-up. I participated in the first round this summer, and it was awesome.

[lettered]

Oooooooooooh! So cool! I hope I remember to do it!