Waking up to bad news

[erastes]

Happy Birthday aunty_marion!  Have a lovely day!

I'm stunned by Ledger's death, I'm sure my flist will be full of it today, but it's such a tragic waste of talent. Just. No words, really.

And I'm extremely miffed with people who can't meet their committments.  I'm going to have a mini rant because I loathe unprofessionalism even in fanfic. You see, we started deadlyhollow months ago. Months and months and months.  We asked for sign ups and we filled the schedule with people who "couldn't wait" to spork.  Everyone was fine with their assignments. No-one said they couldn't manage it - and although we had meant to get the comm off the ground in October, we didn't actually start posting until January.  Now we find that some people just haven't done the work, and haven't (despite gehayi posting regularly with "if you can't manage it, it doesn't matter - but please let us know so someone else can step in") and don't even have the politeness or the stones to just email us personally and tell us in advance.  Way to get our respect, guys.  Remind me to never include empressov or oblivionhold in any future projects with deadlines.

I would think that it goes without saying that if you sign up for something, that you do what you've pledged to do, or you write and give your apologies as to why you haven't.  Hell - I'm the first one to understand that shit happens and that sometimes it's just impossible and you realise that you've bitten off more than you can chew - there have been many times, particularly in fandom when I've signed up for a ton of stuff and just drowned under the pressure. I'm not sitting here saying "ner ner ner I've never let anyone down" because I have. But I did have the professionalism to own up to the fact that I was a pratt and let the Mods know.  If people can't do this on a amateur basis, then the big bad world of professional writing is not going to be the place for them.

Comments

[electricandroid.livejournal.com]

Need any help? I have a free(ish - should be doing housework) Sunday this weekend :)

Btw, good on you for naming them. :)

[aunty_marion]

Thank you! So far so wheezy, but the day is yet young (and I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon which may sort that out).

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

Eek!! Happy Birthday indeed!!!! Hope you have a great day and no wheezing.

xx

[sionnain.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that's really sad. I hate when people go AWOL on ficathons and the like. It's not that hard to say a simple, "Sorry, I can't do this." It makes me wonder how these people operate in ANY professional position, geez!

[octoberstorm.livejournal.com]

One thing I don't get. How wanting people to stick to deadlines is "drama."