Christmas Engagement Win
Today it was announced that While You Tell Yourself the Truth tied for the "Most Adventurous" award for SIYE's Christmas Engagement Challenge. This will make it a "Featured Story" on SIYE.
While I'm thrilled and grateful to be so recognized, I also have some mixed feelings. For one thing, the story tied with
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It's true that this time, judges were picked based simply on their willingness to judge. I'm told that that's different from other times. But the very decision to be a judge also implies a willingness to read an awful lot of stuff and to try to be fair. It's not like the "People's Choice" concept where the loudest voice wins. I liked being in that company.
Thanks for the vote -- "Aw, Josh's jocular jots, honey, I love you too." (Oh -- maybe I shouldn't quote from not-yet-posted chapters?)
As for writing a Challenge story that doesn't feel like a Challenge story, that's why Dave's story is the hands-down winner. If you'd never heard of this Challenge you'd want to read it anyway. The same would be true of WYTYT, I think, if I could delete nearly all of the scenes with the twins and focus on what I now realize the story is about! (I didn't fully realize it, actually, until I was discussing it with Dave the other day. I now realize that Harry should have asked Ginny whether she agreed to stay behind, and she should have replied with two words: "I do." It was the word "engagement" that was throwing me off; they weren't getting engaged, they were getting married!)
And now that you're here on LJ, do you want to take a look at some of the recent chapters and draft fics? The two Snape chapters (1) The prologue Things That Do Sound So Fair, http://rhetoretician.livejournal.com/5369.html and (2) What will probably wind up being Chapter 15, Take Any Shape But That, http://rhetoretician.livejournal.com/5752.html. Or maybe the "Phoenix Moment" Challenge entry called The Torch, which is also my little love song to Hermione, http://rhetoretician.livejournal.com/6597.html. You know how I value your opinion.
~Ken
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