bring out your dead ~

[lookingland]

thought on dead communities:

i apparently belong to a lot of dead livejournal communities.

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.

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thought on a dead person for the day:

harriet beecher-stowe ~ earnest and ill-informed reformer or deliberate propaganist? what is the responsibility of writers to tell the truth?

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things that kill:

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.

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dead projects worth resurrecting?:

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable. but i do have a handful of truly dead ideas that will never see the light of day. should i destroy all evidence of them? does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

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dead ends:

i need a hair trim really bad. this northern weather is wreaking havoc on my tresses.

: D

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Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means
of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life,
of making it tolerable and acceptable.

Wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

~ Socrates

Comments

[akirad.livejournal.com]

Communities are weird aren't they? It's a bit like trying to build a fire when you're camping - it begins with a spark, and a flame, but there's a lot of effort to keep it going, until there comes a magic moment when it can survive by itself and you can relax, sit back and enjoy it.

Yeah, that's what I think! :)

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh

[la-vita-nuova.livejournal.com]

Seriously.

Have you ever bought anything from the Tea Source? http://www.teasource.com/
They are in MN. SO Good!

[utter-scoundrel.livejournal.com]

" should i destroy all evidence of them? "

Never.

Signed,
A Lifelong Packrat

I liked your entry today! =)

[astamaria.livejournal.com]

i occasionally post to them, hoping to rouse some discussion, but not much has been happening. i leave them on my list because it's not like they clog up my friends' page or anything.
Same here! I really regret that the catholicwriters group in particular is so dead.

once you've had good quality tea, there's just no going back to celestial seasonings, is there? bleh.
No, there isn't! Every once in awhile, someone will offer me a cup of celestial seasonings or worse--lipton's! I usually quite politely turn them down, all the while quaking in my boots. I'm afraid I've turned into quite the tea snob.

just how long does something have to sit in a closet rotting before you declare it dead. much as i hold onto a number of very old and very abandoned projects, i still consider most of them to be viable.
I think you should hold onto them. There's no telling when inspiration might strike. Someday you might want to use the idea, but in a revised form. If nothing else, you could at least see where you screwed up the first time and try not to make the same mistake.

Then again, this advice is coming from a self-professed packrat!

does anyone else have a horror of the thought of work being published posthumously which should never see the light of day?

All the time! I always picture some future scholar pouring over my unfinished work, making comments along the lines of: "Ah, yes, this unfortunately was one of her weakest works. The plot is terrible, the characters are weak..." (Of course, this fantasy also goes along with the "famous author" daydream: the one where high schoolers are reading my work along with Twain, Dickens, the Brontes, and the like.)

And, of course, I've always been nervous that my descendents will find my diary after I'm dead. I can just hear it now: "Great-Grandma did WHAT???" =)

[codepoet.livejournal.com]

That's about my attitude with a bunch of my friends-list - I generally don't unfriend people unless they're filling my friends-page with stuff I don't want to read, and I've come across quite a few who've simply stopped updating over the past... um, 6-or-so years of membership. eek.

[sparowe]

I've got a few communities like that on my list... one I posted to until I literally felt self-concious about it, and went back to lurking. It was just weird.