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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.

Comments

[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*

[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