
The contest is happening again. This will be, if I've heard correctly, the second-to-last season. I'm debating whether or not to try again.
It's a fantastic stretching exercise when it comes to your blog-writing: the moderator throws a topic at you, and hundreds of writers (divided into different "tribes") tackle it. Plenty of people, you hope, read what you've written. And eventually, after weeks of eliminations, someone wins it. My online friend
But would I have the time and the patience for it? It's a lot of writing, on deadline. It's then a lot of reading, to see what other contestants came up with. There's a social network aspect: you comment on entries, if you have something to say about them, and you won't know if it'll inspire thoughts unless you read it, right? And that's on deadline, too, because you vote in polls to support particular writers. Sometimes last time I ran out of time to vote in all of the polls, and felt guilty about missing that.
I also confirmed a bias of mine, one which will sadden or annoy neat person
(Also a way to try my patience? The writers who deliberately locked themselves into some gimmick, like "write every LJ Idol entry as if I were a cat.")
So. Do I want to try again? Shall I dare to eat a peach? How much can I write? How much can I read?
...holy crap, I think I'm getting more interested in indeed doing it again. Should I be worried?