Due date draws near...

[amanuensis1]

The due date for the Harry Potter Slash Awards (why do those splash page links fail to take you anywhere if you click them? I have to open each in a new window to get 'em to work) sub-nominees draws near (Aug 20, Wednesday), and I definitely haven't met my goal of at least looking at all of the stories. Wasn't going to happen, not going to happen. Sigh. So, I made a point of going through the Humor and PWP categories because I figured that at least a quick glance would make me capable of judging, "Is this funnier/hotter than the stories I nominated the first time around?" Actually not as easy as all that. I found some terrifically funny stories that I'm so glad I read, though the PWP stuff makes me realize how different some people's definitions are. Some stories will certainly make my recs list, whenever I get around to a new update.

So. I'll have to just go with what I know for the other categories, as far as my selections for sub-nominations go, and I just hate that. Who knows what I might be overlooking? *grumbles*

Comments

[madam-malicia.livejournal.com]

I too eliminated WIPs from my list. That made my choices alot harder because as I already said, I tend to vote for underdogs.

I think in the future the HPSA should only include completed fics. Sure that would eliminate alot of fics, even some of the "classics" but I think it's easier to judge a fic when its completed. Plus you get a better overall picture. Some fics start off really really good then flounder in plot, characterisation or just fall into really bad writing. Or the opposite happens. Starts off bad but ends really good. Though I may have opinions on individual chapters and the story as it developes, its not until the fic is completed that I am really in a position to judge how much I liked it and compare it to other fics.

Malicia

[loony-moony.livejournal.com]

Well, when a fic is WIP you can basically see where its going.

I agree the completed fics are easier to judge, but sometimes the WIPs are too good to be ignored. And yes, there are some completed fics that I erased from my voting options because they were developping badly and ending much worse than they began.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Word. See my reply below; I said a lot of what you did.