Fic Talk > Featured Story of the Month
The Featured story thread
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Mariah on January 09, 2011, 01:04:26 PM ---So ok, was just confused. Its only nominees at the Felix awards, not based on regulars on the forum? Either that or its a favorites thing.
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No, they mean regulars on the forum. What Julilly was saying is that the writers who win Best Author and Best New Author at the Felix Awards each get a featured month as part of their title, so that takes up two months of the year. That only leaves ten spots to be filled with featured stories each year.
Like Julilly said, if you take a look at the members list on the forum and sort by number of posts, you'll see that just about all of the regulars who write and have stories that fit the criteria Mare has posted above have been featured. If they're newer writers that haven't been featured yet, they might be on the waiting list for this year.
alota_cookin:
Best Author and Best New author each automatically get a month with one of their stories featured. The other 10 months are "up for grabs", if you will. I believe Mare is the main one who selects the featured story...and she selects them based on a lot of factors, actually.
The comment made about "most of the regulars have been featured" was just pointing out that most (but not all) of the people that are regular contributors on the forum, have been featured at one point....and the ones that haven't are probably on the waiting list for a future month.
Selecting a featured story is only partly based on the person's activity on the forum board...and that's only because a featured story thread would be boring if the author wasn't on here. Overall, the stories are selected based on the quality of the story, the creativity of a plot line, how well it's written, if it captures reader interest or...in my personal case, she selected it because she heard various people talking about the story and how much they enjoyed it.
Mare...correct me if I'm wrong, LOL.
And Mariah...does that help you understand it any better?
alota_cookin:
LMFAO....it helps if I reviewed the whole thread...maybe I would have remembered that Mare actually posted the criteria! *face palm*
RokofAges75:
LOL yeah, this thread is actually really old! My comment about most of the regulars being featured was made two years ago. Although when I look at the first page of members, sorted by number of posts, it's still true that most of them who write have had a month. And like you said, Kristal, I know Mare takes into account recommendation s and stories that are getting a lot of buzz from readers... obviously, she wants to choose stories that people are going to want to talk about.
mare:
LOL it's so weird that all these old threads are suddenly being posted in again.
If you notice the features story list you will see since Feb of 2007 every month we have featured a new story. I can't believe we've already had 48 stories featured! Go us for never giving up on this! :)
I am the one who picks the Featured story every month and like both Kristal and Julie said, I go by a criteria. There is also a thread where if you want to be considered or have another author you want to bring to my attention, you can post in that thread and viola! It's really as easy as that. lol
Since doing this, I find that the best months come from people who are active on the forum, otherwise the thread just kind of remains stagnant and where's the fun in that? Although I have featured plenty of people who do not post on the forum and will continue to do so on occasion.
I do not pick stories just based on whether or not I like them. In fact, i'll admit that most of the stories on the list I haven't even actually read myself but based on other people's reccomendation s, fan reviews and overall writing ability, they are the perfect fit for a feature.
The Felix thing is new within the last two years. The best author and best new author will get their own month and usually one month is devoted to an oldie (usually during a month where i'm too busy to be Oprah) lol Other than that, I am trying to give everyone a chance.
Hope that answered all your questions and i'm always looking for more recs so go to that thread and rec away.
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