Well, since your #1 rule eliminates both several fics I would nominate, and the only one I've written that I would hope to see nominated (which was written for a LJ challenge and publicized first at that challenge's site,) I guess I won't be participating.
For the record, I think it's a bit unfair to penalize authors this first time around for a choice that they had no idea would one day impact their chances of being recognized in a competition like this, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
It really wasn't a question of "penalizing." It was about this just being for works posted on lj this year. And I know that does rule out quite a few things. It rules out a few things that I personally think are quite deserving of awards. There came a point where the rules had to be decided on and stuck to, though, and these are the rules that best fit the original conception of the poll.
But, well, if you don't like the rules, then you don't like the rules, and doubt there's much I can do to change that. There's no chance of something like this making everyone happy, I'm afraid. Just know that there was never a thought of purposely leaving anyone out.
Incidentally, I don't know exactly what the situation is with your fic, but as long as it was written and posted this year, it's eligible, even if it was promoted elsewhere first.
Eeek. Sorry, this is probably much more of a response than you bargained for. I do thank you for your input, as there's every intention of this being an annual thing.
Incidentally, I don't know exactly what the situation is with your fic, but as long as it was written and posted this year, it's eligible, even if it was promoted elsewhere first.
Nah, the situation is that it was written for the challenge, posted to my personal web site, and introduced at the LJ community that ran the challenge. I understand you don't want any old fic that's been posted anywhere in the past year to be eligible, but there are some of us whose fandom activites are very LiveJournal-centered but who don't post every single fic in the LJs themselves. (I mean, Sam Vimes, for example, has got an entire LJ community devoted to his Stealing Harry, but it can't be nominated because it's hosted at his personal site.)
Eeek. Sorry, this is probably much more of a response than you bargained for. I do thank you for your input, as there's every intention of this being an annual thing.It's cool, I'm just a bit cranky because I've been hitting some other stumbling blocks of late and this one struck me as a bit arbitrary. But I'
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I was going to nominate A Thousand Beautiful Things. I didn't friend your journal until reading it on skyehawke. Any chnace that you posted in your journal or on a community.
::is lazy and doesn't feel like lurking that far back into your journal::
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For the record, I think it's a bit unfair to penalize authors this first time around for a choice that they had no idea would one day impact their chances of being recognized in a competition like this, but I guess you gotta do what you gotta do.
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But, well, if you don't like the rules, then you don't like the rules, and doubt there's much I can do to change that. There's no chance of something like this making everyone happy, I'm afraid. Just know that there was never a thought of purposely leaving anyone out.
Incidentally, I don't know exactly what the situation is with your fic, but as long as it was written and posted this year, it's eligible, even if it was promoted elsewhere first.
Eeek. Sorry, this is probably much more of a response than you bargained for. I do thank you for your input, as there's every intention of this being an annual thing.
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Nah, the situation is that it was written for the challenge, posted to my personal web site, and introduced at the LJ community that ran the challenge. I understand you don't want any old fic that's been posted anywhere in the past year to be eligible, but there are some of us whose fandom activites are very LiveJournal-centered but who don't post every single fic in the LJs themselves. (I mean, Sam Vimes, for example, has got an entire LJ community devoted to his Stealing Harry, but it can't be nominated because it's hosted at his personal site.)
Eeek. Sorry, this is probably much more of a response than you bargained for. I do thank you for your input, as there's every intention of this being an annual thing.It's cool, I'm just a bit cranky because I've been hitting some other stumbling blocks of late and this one struck me as a bit arbitrary. But I' ( ... )
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I was going to nominate A Thousand Beautiful Things. I didn't friend your journal until reading it on skyehawke. Any chnace that you posted in your journal or on a community.
::is lazy and doesn't feel like lurking that far back into your journal::
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