User blog comment:Webly/Where I'm at./@comment-1874924-20120124024831

I truly hope this succeeds where so many other big, ambitious projects have failed; but I'm afraid I won't be able to participate, either as critic or contestant. Since I work for a living instead of going to school, I don't have that much more free time during the summer than in other seasons, and a 20-week competition would go deep into the fall (volleyball photography season) in any case. My reading is spread a bit thin as it is--it doesn't help that I'm a very slow reader--and it takes time to produce the kind of detailed commentary I'm known for. As for writing, the main reason I haven't written more stories is that I don't get a lot of ideas. That, plus my perfectionistic nature, makes it wholly impossible for me to reliably crank out chapters on a weekly basis.

More to the point, giving this contest the attention it's likely to require, either as a reader or a writer, would almost certainly force me to put LTDI on hiatus, and I don't think my fans would want that.