Fic Talk > Featured Story of the Month
The Featured story thread
Mariah:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on January 10, 2011, 05:20:03 PM ---Mariah, if you were given a month, which of your stories would be featured? I'm asking because, looking at your profile, all but one of your stories are incomplete and under twenty chapters. The only one that's finished is a short story. It's really easier to discuss stories that are complete, near complete, or long enough to have a lot to talk about, even if they're not that close to being finished.
Also, I want to point out that in the 48 months the Featured Story thing has been going on, 48 different authors have been featured (sometimes two in a month when you look at the collaborations that have been featured). No one has been featured more than twice, and it was only in the last three months of last year that anyone got a second turn, usually 2 or 3 years after their original turn. It's not like Mare is just rotating through a few of her favorite authors. It's also not like she just scrolls through the list of all the writers on AC and picks a name at random. Everyone who has been featured is either a regular on the forum or has been heavily requested, and many of the featured authors have been both.
If you continue to be active on the forum, and if you continue to update and actually finish some of your stories so that people will be able to discuss them, you will be featured at some point. That's all it takes. I'm not sure why it's so difficult to understand...
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I guess its difficult because its a new forum and everybody knows everybody here. Honestly, you guys are so different from the nsync crowd. I really don't know what that means. I'm not really saying stuff like this should happen right now. And actually, I have a story already finished, as well as a sequel lined up for it. Crazy Thoughts, just haven't posted all of it. So thats something, if I had to choose any of my stories since obviously incomplete ones are invalid. And also, I've seen novels that are nearly 20 chapters that are completed. So I don't think a story has to be a full 20 chapters to be considered finished. I don't remember seeing that on the list of requirements. If its finished, its done. Unless theres a sequel. I do continue to update Julie, thank you. Just not as quick as everybody else does.
mare:
It's not the same thing as the update thread. An update thread is to let people know you have updated.
LOL I honestly don't know how to explain it any better than I have. I mean I think I have covered all of your questions multiple times in this thread alone, including the fact that I want to give everyone a chance to be featured at one point whether they are recomended or not. I'll say it again though lol if you want to be featured, go into the rec thread and mention it. I think that makes sense? I am making sense, right? lol
Mariah:
Hmm, I didn't know asking you to clarify what you meant was such an annoyance. I was genuinely confused on how they were chosen. Next time, I won't ask anymore questions just because I was confused. That was bad. :(
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Mariah on January 10, 2011, 05:50:27 PM ---And actually, I have a story already finished, as well as a sequel lined up for it. Crazy Thoughts, just haven't posted all of it. So thats something, if I had to choose any of my stories since obviously incomplete ones are invalid. And also, I've seen novels that are nearly 20 chapters that are completed. So I don't think a story has to be a full 20 chapters to be considered finished. I don't remember seeing that on the list of requirements. If its finished, its done. Unless theres a sequel. I do continue to update Julie, thank you. Just not as quick as everybody else does.
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We can't discuss something that's not posted, and your stories that are under 20 chapters AREN'T finished. That's my point. Finish them, post the rest on the site, and then when you're eventually featured, people will have more to talk about.
There ARE other people on the forum and on the site who have more stories, longer stories, more finished stories, more frequently updated stories, and still haven't been featured, simply because their turn hasn't come around yet. Again, there are only enough months for twelve people to be featured in a year, two of which are taken by the Best Author winners at Felix, and if you haven't noticed, there are quite a few posters here and quite a few authors on the site. Be patient. If you want a turn, you'll get a turn eventually.
julilly:
--- Quote from: Mariah on January 10, 2011, 05:50:27 PM ---I guess its difficult because its a new forum and everybody knows everybody here. Honestly, you guys are so different from the nsync crowd. I really don't know what that means. I'm not really saying stuff like this should happen right now. And actually, I have a story already finished, as well as a sequel lined up for it. Crazy Thoughts, just haven't posted all of it. So thats something, if I had to choose any of my stories since obviously incomplete ones are invalid. And also, I've seen novels that are nearly 20 chapters that are completed. So I don't think a story has to be a full 20 chapters to be considered finished. I don't remember seeing that on the list of requirements. If its finished, its done. Unless theres a sequel. I do continue to update Julie, thank you. Just not as quick as everybody else does.
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It's a new forum? The forum has been active since 2006, you've been a member since 2007.
You're allowed to recommend yourself, and if it's important to you then you'll ask your readers to recommend you also. So, and I think this is what Mare was getting at, if what you're asking is for your own stuff to be featured then just go into the recommendation s thread and recommend yourself already.
If you're still confused about how it works; people recommend authors (there are 506 on AC, 48 have been featured thus far), Mare puts those authors on a list, picks one for every month, they pick the story they want to have featured, it's discussed.
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