I felt like AMC came with "MASOCHIST" written all over it!
LOL! It was a tough competition this year, but your excellent stories did extremely well and I couldn't help but to feel very proud of you, and every other SWG writer to do so well!
Bobby just told Alex, "Your mommy rules the Elves, Alex!" Silly boys....
Owwwww *grin*
That's way better than the reply I got when I told hubby about my woobie moment.
Fweeeee! I don't even know why you're surprised (though of course I don't know the competition >_>)! But congratulations on winning so many awards!
I seem to recall being the only First Age story in a pool of mostly Third Age stories and one of the only novels as well. I felt like AMC came with "MASOCHIST" written all over it!
Heh, that reminds me of the RingCon short story contest. There were dozens of sickeningly cutesy Third Age baby elves story, a few more intelligent Third Age story, one Second Age story and ladyelleth's and my Silm story - in English, moreover, when it was a technically bilingual contest but a German con... I suppose we must all be grateful that it was the Númenor story that won, at least.
It isn't that I don't think the nominated stories are good or deserving of their awards...it's more that I know that more goes into the selection of awards than the actual "quality" of the stories. Aside from Rhapsody, I'm not really close with any of the MEFA crowd, and there's always the fear, going into these things, that everyone's going to read their friends and skip the overwrought and unknown Silmfic. So when I was nominated, I took the nominations as an award in themselves and did not expect any more.
I'm pleased to see that my stories got recognized (though my personal favorite of the lot got nothing!), but I still wonder if someone better got passed over....
I think too much, yes!
I remember reading you two talking about that competition. In multi-age competitions, we First Agers are always at a disadvantage; everyone knows Aragorn and Legolas, but who knows Feanor? So I'm really surprised that a Second Age story won. They get ignored more than First Age, I think!
Ah, but at least it had Elendil and Sauron in it, so it had the advantage of a) being from a more obscure part of the canon, which gets you intellectual points, but b) having at least two familiar names to give people a vague sense of orientation... But yeah, all in all, the Second Age doesn't get enough love!
I love the Akallabeth...but I'm scared to write Second Age. It sounds so stupid, but I have this enormous wealth of First Age canon knowledge by now and know next to nothing about the Second Age. Of course, that's how I was with the First Age when I started AMC...but I'm not so brave now that I know that people might actually read what I write.
So I stay safe in the First Age and secretly wish for more Akallabeth stories...and maybe one day I'll get brave and write one. ;)
Re: CONGRATULATIONS!dawn_felagundDecember 9 2006, 05:18:37 UTC
Thank you! :)
It's not that I don't think my writing's good or that it won't hold up against the work of my peers. But AMC was the lone First Age (and a ginormous novel) in a pool full of Aragorn and Faramir short stories. And I remain somewhat cynical about awards. Fandom is full of checks and balances where one must read and support her friends in order to be read and supported, and awards sometimes tend to feel more like a popularity contest than any statement of actual "quality."
Ahem. I feel a ramble coming on, so I'll nip it in the bud. ;)
So the honor for me was that people thought my work their favorites of the year and worth nominating. I'm happy with the awards but the system isn't perfect--no system is--and if everyone who voted read everyone who was up against me, the results might have been very different.
I know..."Didn't she say she wouldn't ramble??"
Thank you again...and good night. ;) *shutting up and off to bed*
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I felt like AMC came with "MASOCHIST" written all over it!
LOL! It was a tough competition this year, but your excellent stories did extremely well and I couldn't help but to feel very proud of you, and every other SWG writer to do so well!
Bobby just told Alex, "Your mommy rules the Elves, Alex!" Silly boys....
Owwwww *grin*
That's way better than the reply I got when I told hubby about my woobie moment.
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That's way better than the reply I got when I told hubby about my woobie moment.
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Well, you can come squee to us. :) Though I know that sharing this with one's husband is special too....
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I seem to recall being the only First Age story in a pool of mostly Third Age stories and one of the only novels as well. I felt like AMC came with "MASOCHIST" written all over it!
Heh, that reminds me of the RingCon short story contest. There were dozens of sickeningly cutesy Third Age baby elves story, a few more intelligent Third Age story, one Second Age story and ladyelleth's and my Silm story - in English, moreover, when it was a technically bilingual contest but a German con...
I suppose we must all be grateful that it was the Númenor story that won, at least.
"Your mommy rules the Elves, Alex!"
Awwwwwww!
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I'm pleased to see that my stories got recognized (though my personal favorite of the lot got nothing!), but I still wonder if someone better got passed over....
I think too much, yes!
I remember reading you two talking about that competition. In multi-age competitions, we First Agers are always at a disadvantage; everyone knows Aragorn and Legolas, but who knows Feanor? So I'm really surprised that a Second Age story won. They get ignored more than First Age, I think!
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But yeah, all in all, the Second Age doesn't get enough love!
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So I stay safe in the First Age and secretly wish for more Akallabeth stories...and maybe one day I'll get brave and write one. ;)
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Well done!
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It's not that I don't think my writing's good or that it won't hold up against the work of my peers. But AMC was the lone First Age (and a ginormous novel) in a pool full of Aragorn and Faramir short stories. And I remain somewhat cynical about awards. Fandom is full of checks and balances where one must read and support her friends in order to be read and supported, and awards sometimes tend to feel more like a popularity contest than any statement of actual "quality."
Ahem. I feel a ramble coming on, so I'll nip it in the bud. ;)
So the honor for me was that people thought my work their favorites of the year and worth nominating. I'm happy with the awards but the system isn't perfect--no system is--and if everyone who voted read everyone who was up against me, the results might have been very different.
I know..."Didn't she say she wouldn't ramble??"
Thank you again...and good night. ;) *shutting up and off to bed*
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