The Cool Kids Club

Oh yes, and before I forget:

wonsab has been banned by M.M, thus cementing them as awesome. Has anyone else been so blessed, or are the two of us just that much cooler than the rest of you?

Edit: Apparently psychmoonshadow and charizamdc also get a badge of pride. Except now they're all unbanned (at least for the moment) thus giving me the distinction of both the first to be banned and the only one to stay banned.

Aren't you all so jealous he hates me the most? I know I'd be just devastated if the honor had gone to someone else.

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The hits to reviews ratio over on fictionpress is unbelievable at times - three hits, three reviews.

Fanlib Retrospective, Part Four

I hadn't forgotten my original idea of the contest being a NaNo-like encouragement to write more, nor my still earlier idea of the site being a place to post fic that stretched the concept of "fan" to the breaking point. So when a new contest popped up, after my first impulse to ignore the thing, I reread the entry guidelines.

For 17 year-old Janie Hannagan, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old — especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. She can't tell anybody about her predicament; they'd never believe her or, worse, they'd think she's a freak. So Janie lives on the fringe, cursed with an ability she doesn't want and can't control. Eventually, she learns to control what happens in others' dreams.

Inspired by the just-released book Wake, write a story describing what happens when you find yourself jumping into someone else's dreams or nightmares and how you help change the outcome.

Shorter: Wake has a character help people through dreams. Write about a character who goes into dreams too.

Can I subvert this? I asked myself. Yes. Yes, I can.

I promptly wrote up The Wall Was Still Only Half Covered, then, after perusing the entries and coming across a truly jawdropping example where some spoiled American teen channels the vapid dumbness of her insulated lifestyle to teach the African victim of tragedy that life is great, added Fixing.

And, fresh on the heels of the new stupid unearthed by the Rebels sequence, I wrote up yet another autobiographical thing: ( In the Interests of Elevated Debate )