Are You Bored Yet?
15 Jan 2011 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
curiouswombatAre you bored yet? Now that all the festivities of Christmas and New Year are over, the decorations are down, the January Sales have been exhausted, you've been back at work for a couple of weeks and got rid of the backlog... and you want an excuse not to start the spring cleaning.
If you want something to keep you occupied I have a couple of suggestions.
For friends who like to take photos - why not join The Photo Scavenger Community?
A new theme each week for you to interpret as you will and post a picture. Not onerous - but fun. And it would be so much more fun if there were more members... You don't even have to go out and shoot a new pic if you have the perfect one for the week's theme already on file.
For friends who like Tolkien - there are plans to hold the first ever Tolkien Big Bang. If you are like me, you may not know what a Big Bang is - well, I know now, because I read the info!
Writers commit to a story of 20,000 words or more before July, artists to do art work to go with the stories. So if you aren't a writer, but like doing artistic stuff (in which case I admire you enormously), it might be a new and interesting challenge for you. Think of not only the films to help with Lord of The Rings, but all the lovely things you could do with trees, lakes, rivers, jewels.... go on - you know you want something to stop you getting bored!
This was going to be purely a pimping post - but there is something else I really must share, too. I have just had a review of "Return of The Key" left at Twisting the Hellmouth. It starts
After reading AEMI's Serpent In Paradise, it's impossible for me to enjoy any other LOTR fanfic.
Then it goes on to, I guess, quote large chunks of their preferred fic... (here is the whole review if you are interested!)
I was a bit gob-smacked as to how to reply. I settled for Oh, how sad. I am sorry that you didn't enjoy this one .
I came to the conclusion the reviewer must have been bored to have read as far as the epilogue when they found it impossible to enjoy it!
If you want something to keep you occupied I have a couple of suggestions.
For friends who like to take photos - why not join The Photo Scavenger Community?
A new theme each week for you to interpret as you will and post a picture. Not onerous - but fun. And it would be so much more fun if there were more members... You don't even have to go out and shoot a new pic if you have the perfect one for the week's theme already on file.
For friends who like Tolkien - there are plans to hold the first ever Tolkien Big Bang. If you are like me, you may not know what a Big Bang is - well, I know now, because I read the info!
Writers commit to a story of 20,000 words or more before July, artists to do art work to go with the stories. So if you aren't a writer, but like doing artistic stuff (in which case I admire you enormously), it might be a new and interesting challenge for you. Think of not only the films to help with Lord of The Rings, but all the lovely things you could do with trees, lakes, rivers, jewels.... go on - you know you want something to stop you getting bored!
This was going to be purely a pimping post - but there is something else I really must share, too. I have just had a review of "Return of The Key" left at Twisting the Hellmouth. It starts
After reading AEMI's Serpent In Paradise, it's impossible for me to enjoy any other LOTR fanfic.
Then it goes on to, I guess, quote large chunks of their preferred fic... (here is the whole review if you are interested!)
I was a bit gob-smacked as to how to reply. I settled for Oh, how sad. I am sorry that you didn't enjoy this one .
I came to the conclusion the reviewer must have been bored to have read as far as the epilogue when they found it impossible to enjoy it!
