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Question of the day part 6
FrickingKaos:
Awards....well I've only won one and gotten runner up for another at Felix last year, which I was pleasantly surprised about. This was the first time I'd been a part of any fanfic awards or even nominated, so it really meant a lot to me. Never once expected to win.
As for the judging part, I like how people can vote for who they want and not vote for themselves or nominate themselves, to me it keeps everything fair.
I would love to win more but I'm satisfied with just being nominated. I'm nominated in two different awards right now, still don't expect to win any, I'm up against a lot of talented people, but it would be awesome if I did.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Purpura Lipstick on August 09, 2012, 07:12:35 PM ---Until Felix and the recent awards sites I had NEVER been nominated by someone else so if I wanted to have my story read I would nominate myself. It wasn't so much to get the award (cause I would never win) but it was more of a promotion thing, to get my name and my stories out to an audience.
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I remember the days when that was the thing to do. And it makes sense, to an extent - I'm pretty sure film producers submit their own movies to be considered for the Oscars. But I like the idea of having to be nominated by a reader who thinks your story is worthy better. It makes the nomination a lot more meaningful, and then you can honestly say, "It's an honor just to be nominated!" Not true if you just nominated yourself LOL.
myconfession:
Ah, Steph this is what you're talking about LOL
I like awards... I used to be skeptical of them back in 1999-2003... I won a good bit of them. I wished I remember what they were. There used to be SO many awards back then, that you kind of took them for granted almost, and now, not so many.
Like the only real awards in BSB are the Felix Awards.... that's still going strong. That's why when Steph started the 1D awards, I decided to come up with the Trash awards for romance because of the joke we had that I wrote Nick trash.
I think out of any, I would like to win Best Author or some sort of similar award. I was kind of shocked when I was a runner up on the Felix Awards this past time. I wasn't expecting it because I'm not as prolific over here as I am at my own site. That made me feel good and made me felt like people really were glad that I was back writing in the fandom.
mare:
Yeah I remember there were so many awards sites out there and then just one day they disappeared. I do also remember that the majority did let people nominate themselves in fact I'm pretty sure some if them ONLY let you nominate yourself just in case there were people who didn't want to be nominated. I can understand that but the vote a ton of times for your own story I don't get the point lol
I do think it means more when you know someone liked your story enough to take the time to find the link & chapter or specific scene or whatever the case to give you credit for your writing. That's a pretty awesome feeling.
Purpura Lipstick:
after my awards site went *poof* I turned it into a review site where it was required that the author submit their story for review... it didn't happen once and that was a mess until I cleared it up.
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