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Question of the day part 9 (even though days go by lol)
mare:
Do you let awards influence what you read? If you had a choice between reading something that had no awards and something that did would you choose based on that? How important is it for your stories to win awards or does it not matter one way or the other?
Nope, not at all and the wouldn't influence my reading choice either.
Winning awards has never been a big deal to me. They are nice and it's an honor when people think enough of my stuff to nominate them.
mare:
We've all talked about popular stories. If I had to name five off the top of my head they would be:
Broken
Oreos for Breakfast
Something Beautiful
Signal to Noise
Ground Zero
What are the first five stories that pop into your mind when you think of popular stories and have you read them and enjoyed them? I know on that list I have only read and thoroughly enjoyed two of them and that's Broken and Ground Zero. Two of them I have never read and one I only got halfway through and stopped because I didn't enjoy it at all.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 16, 2013, 08:28:12 AM ---Do you let awards influence what you read? If you had a choice between reading something that had no awards and something that did would you choose based on that? How important is it for your stories to win awards or does it not matter one way or the other?
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The only way that awards might influence what I read is by putting a story that I'd never heard of or looked at before on my reading radar. Like, if a story I'd never heard of won for Best Drama/Angst over other stories that I'd read and enjoyed, I would be curious to check it out. But just seeing an award posted on someone's story doesn't make me go, "Oh, wow, this is an award-winning story, so it MUST be good!" LOL
I don't let awards decide whether I'll read something or not. I know from experience that there are some "undiscovered gems" out there - great stories that, for whatever reason, have never won an award. And some of those "award-winning stories" may be good, but they're just not my cup of tea. If the story sounds like something I'd like, I'll give it a try regardless of whether it's won any awards.
I wouldn't say it's important to me that my stories win awards. It's nice to be nominated, and it's even nicer to win, but it doesn't make me think any more or less of my writing.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 16, 2013, 09:26:19 PM ---We've all talked about popular stories. If I had to name five off the top of my head they would be:
Broken
Oreos for Breakfast
Something Beautiful
Signal to Noise
Ground Zero
What are the first five stories that pop into your mind when you think of popular stories and have you read them and enjoyed them? I know on that list I have only read and thoroughly enjoyed two of them and that's Broken and Ground Zero. Two of them I have never read and one I only got halfway through and stopped because I didn't enjoy it at all.
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Wow, thanks for including Broken in that!
I agree with a lot of your picks, so I'm going to try to add some others. I had to keep Oreos for Breakfast, though, because that was the first one to come to mind. Here are my five:
Oreos for Breakfast
A Tale of Two Popstars
Where Can We Go From Here?
Between the Lines
With the Band
With the exception of "With the Band," all of those are old, pre-AC stories. They are just ones I remember winning awards and being recommended on various websites. "Where Can We Go From Here?" and "Between the Lines" are two of my favorite fanfics.
I read "A Tale of Two Popstars," and it wasn't bad, but what prevented me from putting it on my favorites list or ever wanting to read it again was the fact that I found out the author had changed the characters' names to make it an NSYNC fanfic and some other boyband too (Westlife, maybe?). It reminded me of Tanja stealing our stories and changing the Boys' names to Busted and McFly, and I thought, "What does it say about this girl's generic writing that she can do an Insert Name Here for her characters and still have it work across fandoms?" It really turned me off to it because I felt it cheapened the story. And there is my rant about A Tale of Two Popstars LOL.
"Oreos for Breakfast" I could never get into; I never saw the appeal of that one, but boy, it was everywhere! I read the beginning of "With the Band," but never finished it. Unsurprisingly, the two on my list that I read and loved were the two non-romance dramas LOL.
usako:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 16, 2013, 10:36:20 PM ---Wow, thanks for including Broken in that!
I agree with a lot of your picks, so I'm going to try to add some others. I had to keep Oreos for Breakfast, though, because that was the first one to come to mind. Here are my five:
Oreos for Breakfast
A Tale of Two Popstars
Where Can We Go From Here?
Between the Lines
With the Band
With the exception of "With the Band," all of those are old, pre-AC stories. They are just ones I remember winning awards and being recommended on various websites. "Where Can We Go From Here?" and "Between the Lines" are two of my favorite fanfics.
I read "A Tale of Two Popstars," and it wasn't bad, but what prevented me from putting it on my favorites list or ever wanting to read it again was the fact that I found out the author had changed the characters' names to make it an NSYNC fanfic and some other boyband too (Westlife, maybe?). It reminded me of Tanja stealing our stories and changing the Boys' names to Busted and McFly, and I thought, "What does it say about this girl's generic writing that she can do an Insert Name Here for her characters and still have it work across fandoms?" It really turned me off to it because I felt it cheapened the story. And there is my rant about A Tale of Two Popstars LOL.
"Oreos for Breakfast" I could never get into; I never saw the appeal of that one, but boy, it was everywhere! I read the beginning of "With the Band," but never finished it. Unsurprisingly, the two on my list that I read and loved were the two non-romance dramas LOL.
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I don't how about the most popular stories because I came into the fandom very late.
I think I never finished "Oreos for breakfast" and I'm still trying to understand what's the big deal with it. :crazy:
"Where can we go from here" is one of my favorite ever. Sigh, I wish that someone would write something like that again.
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