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RE: But What About The Children? (Five Minute Freewrite—Helpless)
Well, I had the five minutes. It was probably less than a minute for your to read, though.
This time I had the basic idea going in that it would be a superhero of some type, in this case the best there was, someone who had never been helpless in their life and didn't even know what that felt like. From there the story unfolded. I couldn't come up with a good supervillain ending, and since I'm kind of fond of the unexpected twist, the idea of one of his children getting the upper hand occurred to me in the final minute and a half. It was really the only logical way for it to go after I got there. :)
well sir it was a wonderful job of writing. didn't you break your CL record again in the contest?
Good morning, sir.
Well, thanks for the kind words.
We both broke my CL record from the previous week, but yes, I've pushed it up a little farther now. You and I are pretty much the only ones that can/will touch it though. Aside from No Name, there's not really anyone else who's that aware of it, let alone wanting to/going to eclipse it.
good day to you sir Glen on this fine Tuesday! what is your plan this week, try to make tons of new aquaintances or just not worry that much about it?
I don't know if I have a specific plan really. I do have to experiment and change some approaches I think. Writing the CL I do probably needs to come down some, though not enough that people will really notice, but I do need to have time to create more comments. And in doing more comments, I would think I would get to more posts, which means inevitably more people. As it is, there's only so much time in the day.
I'm also not going to keep track as much as I was of things, because that does take up some time, too. Mainly staying as much as I can in front of the computer and grouping things I have to/want to do during the day together is what I'm attempting, I guess.
sir Glen... it should be interesting to see how much you can ignore your stats because you're kind of a numbers guy aren't you, and a stats guy?
Which is great, I need to be more like that instead of just flying clueless.
I'm trying to increase people to talk to but I'm pretty much maxed out unless I stop talking to people I already have as aquaintences!
I can be a numbers guy. I like to see what I've done and what I can improve on, because it tells me what more I need to do. But if I don't need to keep track of them I'd rather not. As you say, we'll see what that does for me. I don't seem to have much success when I'm just winging it.
You can only do what you can do, I guess. I'm not keen on the idea of ignoring established relationships. That would seem to be the opposite of engagement.
yes sir, my thoughts exactly...the last sentence. how can the 2nd place guy talk to so many people in any kind of meaningful way? his CL was like tiny wasn't it?
It was 77,000 something, and their CR was like 29. I don't know the formula—so I don't know why it put so much emphasis on the PS, but it did. Asher did say he might do some tweaking on it, so we'll see. I mean, it's not like the category is bad. A balance just needs to be maintained.
It might be possible to talk to that many people in a meaningful way, but the CR and the CL didn't really bare that out, so I would say this go around, the answer is, they didn't engage that much. The thing about it is, whether or not someone responds is out of our hands. So, it's hard to fairly gauge any of this really.
I think the answer lies closer to a balance of the different metrics, though, so we'll see how that goes as we get a few more weeks with the PS under our collective belts.