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mare:
I love your idea of the one shot awards & best short story is a very valid category.

Sakabelle:
Thanks! They have been fun so far, got a good group of girls working on them with me. There should be BSB ones! Cause we don't have enough BSB awards right now, lol.

Rose:
A one shot awards would be fun. Someone (else) should do that lol

RokofAges75:

--- Quote from: Sakabelle on August 09, 2012, 06:31:19 PM ---Or you know, like those ATB awards that combined BOTH judging and voted awards. In the same categories. I'm not trying to start drama, but the topic of fanfic awards always reminds me of that mess. First of all, we each had to judge a category. Then, the top 5 stories out of the judging got put to a poll. A poll! So what was the point in judging even? I have no idea what my score was (because I nominated my own story because that's what everyone was doing and it was like you wouldn't get a nomination if you didn't do that) and then my story got last place in the poll because they left the poll unlocked so everyone could see the results (I don't think that was intentional) but was my story actually bad? I have no idea!

Oh and then the awards never got handed out and the site disappeared. Fail.

How important would it be for you to win an award?
Not gonna lie, I've always wanted to win one. Obviously I would keep writing, but it'd be nice to win. But I know that I don't write/update a lot so that's cool.

What award would you most like to win & which story of yours do you feel deserves an award.
That's a hard question, I don't even know. There are a couple of one-shots I've written that I'd like to see get recognized. I don't know that any of my chaptered fic would win anything but I guess the category I'd like to take one day is either best drama/angst or best short story (I don't think that's even a real category though.)
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That sounds really backwards!  Like I said in my response, I like awards that use a combination of voting and judging, but it would make more sense to put all the nominees in a poll FIRST and then have someone only judge the top five, assuming that decent stories are going to get enough votes to rank in the top five.  The kind of combination I like best is just awarding two winners for each category, one judged and one Reader's Choice.

Have you never won a fanfic award??  That surprises me, Steph!  You're such a good writer; you're plenty deserving of winning one!  I ran an awards for a season or two back in the day called The Undiscovered Gem Awards just for stories that had never won an award to recognize talented authors who were flying under the radar for whatever reason.

Rose:
I know right? I was so surprised to learn she hadn't won one yet.

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