Fic Talk > I Challenge You....
The September challenge
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on September 26, 2008, 10:15:29 PM --- I know this is just a silly challenge on a silly forum but it does say a lot about someone's personality when you commit to things and then make excuses.
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Exactly. This is my biggest pet peeve with collaborating lately. If you commit to writing a part and say you're going to write it by such and such day, then DO IT! Don't disappear and come back with an excuse and no part... over and over again. It is so flaky and annoying.
I think the busy excuse is a cop-out. What's the REAL reason you haven't done the challenge? No motivation? Writer's block? Can't get started? Too tough of a challenge? Be honest. If it was something you really wanted to do, you would have made the time to do it by now.
I'm not trying to offend anyone who didn't do the August challenge; honestly, I don't really care. I'm just ranting about the whole flakey, making excuses thing in general.
mare:
^ same here, don't mean to take out all my frustrations on the challenge people lol but it's just an example of what ticks me off! I should just post this all in that pet peeve thread!
This is another reason why I refuse to write with other people, especially when I see things like that happening time and time again! I am much to anal to live with excuses.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: alota_cookin on September 26, 2008, 10:29:29 PM ---Yeah...typing is hard when my daughter likes to crawl on my lap, punch keys, shut off the monitor, scream, cry, beg for food, sit on the keyboard...and do you have any idea how many times I clean my living room, in a day?!? lmao...and I work a full time job, too.
So yeah...I agree that everyone is busy, in thier own ways!
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Oh, I can imagine. I used to babysit, and once I stayed for a whole weekend with these two kids, a four-year-old and a two-year-old, and omg... I was so fried and ready to go home by the end of that experience!! Best kids in the world, but to have to keep an eye on them constantly and not have any time to myself... I just couldn't imagine living that way all the time! I know it's different when they're your own kids and that at some point I'll be ready for that change, but right now I'm not ready to give up my freedom!
honey:
this month? For me? It was the lack of challenge... I know there are a couple I haven't done in the past, but eh... I decided just to wait for next month when there's a new challenge... Ooh, plus, next month is October. I had WAY too much fun with last year's October challenge. wow. can't believe it's been that long... geez I'm wasting away my life on this board with you guys.
(and loving it!)
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on September 26, 2008, 10:37:05 PM ---This is another reason why I refuse to write with other people, especially when I see things like that happening time and time again! I am much to anal to live with excuses.
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Exactly... and it's so hard because you're writing with friends, and you don't want to be anal and come across as bitchy or even tyrannical if you don't put up with the excuses... but at the same time, if you don't say anything, then nothing will get done, and that's how collabs fall apart.
LOL this should definitely go in the pet peeve thread or one of the collab threads we've had, cause I'm definitely talking more about that than this challenge.
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