Follow up on the Brass Ring

[pecunium]

My proposal, (Great Britain on foot, Bridle Path and Barge) is doing well, esp. for just one day's worth of listing.

If I understand what they want, it needs more. I feel guilty (well no, I feel like a beggar, which is different). They want someone who will be read, who can provide something which will have a following. So I'm actually asking for a little more than just a vote.

So if you could follow this link:



and, vote (if you've not already), and leave a comment. Give a suggestion, tell me what you'd like to read about, see pictures of.

When they say, "name your dream", this is one of mine. Toad and his gyspy wagon. The time on the canal.... following the mule. That was what I flashed on. The Wind in the Willows was one of the shaping books of my youth. When I was a kid in Ohio we had a wood behind the house, about four acres. That's a fair chunk of tangled deadfall and mysterious nooks and crannies. It was where I set Badger's House in my mind's eye (there was a patch of fallen branches which was covered in leaves and twigs and snow in the winter. Beneath it was a small bit of dark dryness. The wood-rats Ratty scared off with his brace of pistols and cudgel could have lived in it).

Those are some of the things I would love to catch.

And the morning light, Otter's, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn", which I've always tied into Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" (why yes, my mind is a strange clutter of bizarre free association).

I've got the chops to do the trip. Now I need evidence to show there are people who want to share it with me.

Thanks.

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[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

I was just looking over the competition. At first, I was just paging through. There was even someone who was asking for money for an idea I've had for a while, and never even connected with the contest. The numbers on the voting were small. But, then, I noticed the column to the right, where they give the numbers for the top-ranked ideas. That's a pretty steep slog, methinks. But, then, I don't know how long any of these people have been in the contest.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Voting opened Monday.

The real hurdle is visibility/critical mass. I've made the top fiftyish. But I have friends, and a decent idea of how to get this started.

I'm failing at figuring out Digg, but between Lj, (and what I hope will be a web of friends promoting it) and some other places (Making Light, a listserve I used to frequent, some other blogs of friendly nature). I think I can get up to the top 10, for at least a little while.

Then one just has to keep it up. Finding new people, getting them to sign off on it, that's the key.

Then come the questions of: is the idea practicable? Can you take a decent photo? Can you write? If you can get a few thousand people to vote for you, then maybe you can get that many to follow the trip.

That, at least, is my plan.

[pdlloyd.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope I just helped on the visibility issue; I've just posted about this in my journal. Not that I have as many people visiting my journal as you do yours, but I figure every little bit helps. I'll head over to Twitter and twit my post and your dream there, too.