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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]

I like the idea of the daily word drabble comm. Very much. Not sure, though, whether it will work for people to come up with a drabble every day.

Trouble two: I have trouble remembering the new words, even when I'm making posts about them.
You could tag the posts, with the intial. So your post on ACEROSE would get the tag "intial: a". And all upcoming words starting with A would also go under that tag. Later, you can go to the tag and see if you used that word before. Does this make sense?

*is anal*

[lettered]

I like the tagging system!

See, that's what's so cool about it! You don't have to write something every day, just the words you REALLY want to remember, or that really strike you. When I was doing daily words before, I knew I was not going to remember every single word. I thought that that was alright; I would remember some of them. But I ended up not remembering ANY because there were so many, you know? So what if, if you really want to solidify a word in your mind, you write a drabble for it? The one you wrote for you're more likely to remember. The other ones, no big deal. But you always have the choice.

Also, high! It's nice to talk to you again :o)

[lettered]

hehehe I meant, "hi!"

[seraphcelene]

Love it! I'm in.

*still needs a Yay icon*

[lettered]

Zoe will always be yay enough ;o)

[seraphcelene]

Isn't she just? ;)

[vaysh]

Put like this, it does sound like a great way to remember words. I am quite sure that I will not forget a word once I wrote a drabble around it. Over at LJ, there is the AS/S Last Drabble Writer Standing happening, and each prompt includes an odd word. It's a great way to remember them, even though I bet it's hell for the drabblers to include it. ;)

I was doing a little happy dance when you post came up at daily_word. *waves*

[lettered]

I would really love to do that Last Drabble Writer Standing thing some time. It sounds so cool.

I feel bad about sucking so much with daily_words, but I really am a binge sort of personality. I get into something, REALLY into it, and then I get off and off for months, sometimes years. And then I am BACK. I do this to people, too; it's a wonder my friends put up with it.

[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!

[fulselden]

This sounds EXCELLENT (as also, belatedly, your nano project - Persephone!!).

Also, stillicide is indeed a fantastic word - thank you for introducing me to it.

Great Idea!

[(Anonymous)]

I don't quite understand how I got here from LJ; I didn't mean to be anonymous! I just love the daily words idea. Also wanted to tell you that pir8_fancier has been doing drabbles for word-of-a-day in her (many) fandoms and you might like to check it out, unless of course she's a friend and you've seen them.

I love learning new words, and in the context of drabble seems to help.

Now I'm going to have to go look up "stillicide...."

--kestrelsparhawk

Re: Great Idea!

[lettered]

Oh, hey hon! Get DW! /shameless

I *don't* have pir8fancier friended, so thanks for the heads up! What a cool idea; she's really keeping it up!

I do think having to *use* a word helps me remember it.

I hope you looked up stillicide! I think we mostly have Nabakov to thank.

[lettered]

Well, you're welcome :o)

I just changed the rules so that people post, instead of comment, with the word of the day. Not sure which would be better. I guess I'll try it for a while and see what happens.