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What's next for us?
MellzBellz:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 06, 2007, 08:23:05 PM ---I've thought about it, but I just don't have as much time anymore.
I actually had another awards site that I ran with a couple of friends called the Undiscovered Gem Awards, which we started purposely to award stories that were not the popular ones that won awards everywhere else. We specified that you could only be nominated if you hadn't won any or more than 2-3 awards (I don't remember what the actual number was). Whatever it was, we did it just to eliminate those authors from nominating themselves LOL. And we judged everything ourselves. It was great, and we had planned on doing another season, but then the two of them got busy, and so did I, and it kinda fell through. I would love to run that one again, but I just haven't had time for another project.
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I think that's a REALLY awesome idea Julie! So many great stories go undiscovered cuz they are overshadowed by the hype of other stories. As a reader I've always been wary of "overhyped" fics that everyone else seems to gush over. I guess maybe I expect too much? Anyway my favorite stories have been those "diamond in the rough" type.
mare:
The Undiscovered Gem Awards were a great idea because there is so much talent out there waiting to be found. I wanted to do something like that for FFF, but I never got around to it and I think at that point I was so over the whole awards thing and how people would react to them that I was afriad to even go there.
Awards are a very tricky thing and no matter what, you're not going to please everybody. Those anti awards sites really drained all the fun out of fanfic awards for me lol they were horrid! I'm glad those days are over.
nicksgal:
Awards can be a good or bad thing depending on how they're handled.
I think doing one like that is a great idea, because I've noticed also that there a lot of people out there that only go for stories that have a lot of hype surrounding them, because theyre sure to be "amazing" or something. And some of them are, but others are cliched teenyness. So I don't know.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: MellzBellz on January 06, 2007, 09:48:19 PM ---I think that's a REALLY awesome idea Julie! So many great stories go undiscovered cuz they are overshadowed by the hype of other stories. As a reader I've always been wary of "overhyped" fics that everyone else seems to gush over. I guess maybe I expect too much? Anyway my favorite stories have been those "diamond in the rough" type.
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Exactly!! I mean, some of those overhyped fics are on my favorites list too because they're truly good stories - they're overhyped for a reason. They may not be everyone's cup of tea, storyline- or genre-wise, but you can't deny they're well-written stories. But so many others, I've tried to read and just been like, "Eh..." or even "Huh??" I guess I'm kinda picky too, and when they're that overhyped, I expect them to deliver too. I love the diamond in the rough stories and authors too; those awards were fun to run. :)
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 06, 2007, 11:11:10 PM ---Exactly!! I mean, some of those overhyped fics are on my favorites list too because they're truly good stories - they're overhyped for a reason. They may not be everyone's cup of tea, storyline- or genre-wise, but you can't deny they're well-written stories. But so many others, I've tried to read and just been like, "Eh..." or even "Huh??" I guess I'm kinda picky too, and when they're that overhyped, I expect them to deliver too. I love the diamond in the rough stories and authors too; those awards were fun to run. :)
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Yup, I agree lol I do love a lot of the overhyped stories but there are quite a few I just kind of go 'and why do people like this again?' LOL i'm the same way with movies too though. I'm probably the only person in the universe that kept saying "Die already!!" during the Notebook. lol
I have issues! :P :-[
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