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SilverMoonLady
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Well, I know that last year, the awards were given in *October* or so... so you have a ton of time, but there are already so many stories, it's best to start reading and reviewing right now:))
The cool thing is that this time around, you can go to the site and review as you read, and even edit your review all the way up until they close the voting (somtime in the fall). No one can see the reviews until the end, so you can just tweak and play quite a lot:) Remember, every word counts, so if you love it, wax poetical to your heart's content!
Edit: I went to check the calendar thingy, and you have until May 15 to nominate stories, and then I believe voting ends on the last day of... ack.. memory like a sieve... I want to say October. Might be September. But anyway, the results are out November 15, I think.
On a completely different subject... *pokes Viv with the big stick* Go accept your nom, silly bean!!  )))) 
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Thuriniel
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| Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | The cool thing is that this time around, you can go to the site and review as you read, and even edit your review all the way up until they close the voting (somtime in the fall). No one can see the reviews until the end, so you can just tweak and play quite a lot:) Remember, every word counts, so if you love it, wax poetical to your heart's content!
Edit: I went to check the calendar thingy, and you have until May 15 to nominate stories, and then I believe voting ends on the last day of... ack.. memory like a sieve... I want to say October. Might be September. But anyway, the results are out November 15, I think.
On a completely different subject... *pokes Viv with the big stick* Go accept your nom, silly bean!! )))) |
Ah, thanks SML! You answered my other question ... why can't I see any reviews anywhere ?!!!! You cannot see them until the end! I suspected that would be the case, but I was still wondering. October is going to be better than Christmas! I plan to start reading right away ... and reviewing too, of course.
And Viv ... yes, go accept your nomination  !
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ellisk
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For those of you that are nominated but don't read the message board at the yahoo group very often, I will take the liberty of reposting this here without asking the MEFA admins (I sincerely hope that is cool with them). They posted a message to the group that says:
We have 20 Nominee buttons available for nominated authors. Go to http://home.earthlink.net/~ainae/mefa/nombuttons.html and pick them up for your sites.
I thought people might be interested because folks have been saying "how do I know who's nominated."
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Thuriniel
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Ai, Al! Your drabble is playing havoc in my head  . It's been a bad week at work, but I'll be having some play time this weekend. I haven't forgotten you ... the problem is that nobody in r-life seems to forget about me !
The buttons look great ... how pathetic is it to get excited about nomination buttons?! I spent like ten minutes looking at them and deciding which ones I wanted  .
Ellisk, thanks for keeping us informed (I too hope the MEFA admin. don't mind ... ). I'm so busy right now that I don't have a lot of time to check every day at MEFA, so it's nice to have someone to keep an eye on what's going on for us lazy butts .
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daw
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| I have a question for those who read and reviewed MEFA stories last year. If I decide to do this, what advice would you give me on how to go about it? I don't think I can read every story. Does that mean I shouldn't do this at all? Or should I read in one category at a time, for instance? How can I do this in a way that's fair to the authors? |
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SpaceWeavil
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| ellisk wrote: | For those of you that are nominated but don't read the message board at the yahoo group very often, I will take the liberty of reposting this here without asking the MEFA admins (I sincerely hope that is cool with them). They posted a message to the group that says:
We have 20 Nominee buttons available for nominated authors. Go to http://home.earthlink.net/~ainae/mefa/nombuttons.html and pick them up for your sites.
I thought people might be interested because folks have been saying "how do I know who's nominated." |
I'm going to hand up here and say how stupid I am, but how do you put the buttons onto stories? I thought I'd seen ones on summaries, but I've just tried that with HTML tag malarky things and it didn't work. Does it have to be in the body of the story then?
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SilverMoonLady
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Space... I have no idea... I still don't know how to put on the *Winner* button onto my stories from last year!
As to pacing yourself, daw, well, I sucked last year, reviewing only one small section due to time constraints, but everyone seems quite understanding of that sort of thing. The good news is that you do have 6 months to read and review. I would say that if you must pick and choose, pick the genres that appeal to you to do first; not only are you more knowledgeable about those stories and better able to judge their quality, but you will likely read faster and more willingly because you are enjoying it.
What *would* be unfair would be to, for example, only read and review those authors who are your friends in any given section. This is supposed to not be a popularity contest, but a recognition of quality in fanfic writing.
What I'm trying this year is to start now, read each fic as I go and note my first impressions & thoughts, saving it as a draft (which doesn't go towards final count until resaved as Final). That way, if I do get crunched at the end, all I need to do and go back and either save or delete; ideally though, I'll have enough time to go back and refine my reviews in the Fall, make them pretty and weigh each word to reflect the relative worth:)
But that's just my thoughts on it:)))
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daw
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 4:01 pm Post subject: |
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| That's very helpful, SML. I was concerned about reviewing only the stories I knew because that seemed so obviously unfair, but I hadn't realized I could do drafts. |
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SilverMoonLady
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Always happy to help:)
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SpaceWeavil
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | | Space... I have no idea... I still don't know how to put on the *Winner* button onto my stories from last year! |
Ah well. Thanks anyway. Just took a bit of a whim to see if I could figure it out. My stuff hasn't a hope in hell anyway, but I thought some of the buttons were pretty. (not that I'm shallow or anything...)
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SilverMoonLady
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Ah well. Thanks anyway. Just took a bit of a whim to see if I could figure it out. My stuff hasn't a hope in hell anyway, but I thought some of the buttons were pretty. (not that I'm shallow or anything...) |
*poke* Don't say that! We wouldn't have nominated you if we didn't think it more than worthy!! (and incidentally, my noms and wins last year came as a complete surprise to me)
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Thuriniel
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If you want your button in your summary, you need to ask Support . Upload your button to a site that allows hotlinking like Photobucket. The image needs to be a certain size (don't remember exactly ...  ), so you might need to shrink it.
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | If you want your button in your summary, you need to ask Support . Upload your button to a site that allows hotlinking like Photobucket. The image needs to be a certain size (don't remember exactly ... ), so you might need to shrink it. |
OK. If it was only one I would do it, but I don't want to be a pest. I might put them at the top of the first chapters if I do anything then. Thanks for the help.
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Leaward
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Mine are nominated too, Nancy, but the nominations are linked to SoA ...
I'm an Author Liaison over at the MEFA's and I'm looking for two writers:
1) WereLemur. Her email addy is bouncing and I 'think' we've found her on LJ but it says that her computer went down in April. If anyone is friends with her in real life if they could let her know that she's nominated and to get in touch with me at leaward UNDERSCORE l AT yahoo DOT com (that's lower case L's not one's).
2) Cirdan. Just not getting any response at all ... she/he posts at fanfiction.net but I was wondering if anyone here knew them. Same deal, they need to get in touch with me.
The nomination season is over and everything has to be finalized soon. (I think I heard Ainechoiriel say it was May 25th that they had to be completed or else...) I'd hate to see someone miss out.
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