Wash: So, two days in a hospital? That's awful. Don't you just hate doctors? Simon: Hey. Wash: I mean, present company excluded. Jayne: Let's not be excluding people. That'd be rude.

'Ariel'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Consuela - Feb 10, 2003 10:14:54 am PST #3510 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

travesty

Suh-nerk. Um, how to phrase this most sensitively?

  • Until this year, the only stories to be considered in these awards had to be nominated by the writers themselves.
  • Last year, the individual running the awards won an award.
  • All nominees are evaluated by judges for each category, who then choose three finalists. Until this year, the names of nominated stories that didn't make the final list were not made available, so it was not clear on what basis any of these decisions were made.
  • This year the people running the awards realized that nobody was nominating anything (in their defense, the cancellation and campaign likely didn't help), and they threw open the nominations to allow any story ever posted in the fandom to be nominated.
  • Authors have no control over the categories in which they are nominated.

Some months ago the woman running the campaign asked publicly for recommendations on how to make the awards better. I responded, publicly, with a list of suggestions, and pointed her towards the Spookys as an example of a better/more transparent system. Most of my recommendations were not implemented, but when I received two nominations, I decided it would be politically inappropriate to turn them down, since I'd been pushing for ways to fix the system.

t sigh Of course, since several of the best writers in the fandom did turn down their nominations or didn't get nominated in the first place, I don't see that these awards mean that much.

Fanfic awards: and who says the internet isn't just like high school?


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 10, 2003 10:15:31 am PST #3511 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

Google says no, Fay. Not 100%, but...

looks like you might have to write it after all....


Consuela - Feb 10, 2003 10:20:25 am PST #3512 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, good god. I just looked at that awards page.

On what planet is In the Company of Ghosts a novella??? I edited every word of that damned story. It clocks in at over 1000K and under no circumstances is it a novella.

t flings up hands, stomps off


Dana - Feb 10, 2003 10:25:02 am PST #3513 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

On what planet is In the Company of Ghosts a novella???

That's exactly what I said to shrift when she sent me that list.


shrift - Feb 10, 2003 10:25:33 am PST #3514 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Oh, good god. I just looked at that awards page.

Not only that, but... but...

t splutter

What in the bleeding hell is a "Best Ad-Lib Category"? And why have "Best Romance Category" AND a "Best Shippy FanFic Category"?

And! And! How on earth, in a fandom 4 years old, can you have a category for "Honorary Lifetime Achievement"?

t /splutter


Steph L. - Feb 10, 2003 10:25:49 am PST #3515 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

In the Company of Ghosts

I read part 1 of that, but didn't read more, b/c I didn't know enough backstory (part 1 was confusing, really). But now I think I'm going to go back to it.

I started Mayaan's newest story, and then my computer crashed. THAT'S how wrong John/John is.


Consuela - Feb 10, 2003 10:34:34 am PST #3516 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

You should read it, Steph. It's the most incredible thing.

And I talked to Max the other day and she's got 1000K of story on her hard drive. Wheeee.


Consuela - Feb 10, 2003 10:35:44 am PST #3517 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Read Maayan's new story, Steph. It's not about the slash.


Kat Allison - Feb 10, 2003 11:45:17 am PST #3518 of 10000
"No, YOU suck." -- the mean people.

I've got a friend looking for LoTR recs, non-slash. We've only got two at PolyRecs, and one is humor. Anyone have any they'd like to share?

One I came across just the other day and enjoyed a great deal is The Care and Feeding of Hobbits. by Baylor, a writer with whom I'm unfamiliar. It's actually a collection of short pieces, subtitled "Ruminations on the Little People by Boromir, Man of Gondor." Lovely hobbit stuff and lovely subtle Boromir stuff too. Well worth reading.


Dana - Feb 10, 2003 11:48:06 am PST #3519 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Hee. That's already on my to-read list, courtesy of grit kitty. I'll definitely check it out.