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]

if they want to make epics, and are comfortable enough with their outlines to know exactly the way their stories are going, that is fine. I post WIPs and do this with all my fics. Sometimes I go overboard. My extreme AU fic has over a 150 pages of notes and outlines devoted to it. Mostly because its the connector fic for a very complicated trilogy and I felt compelled to write detailed personal histories for every single character. I seriously doubt that the fic will be 150 pages.

2) decline to read those stories until they are done (why get emotionally involved in something the author may one day abandon?)

That is so freaking true. I still cry over Dreams of Enchantment, a fic that hasn't been updated in years. *damns the writers to Hades*

Other then that qualm I prefer to read WIPs over completed fics. I know that seems strange but I actually remeber them better. I read LUW in one sitting and though I recall enjoying it a great deal I can't remeber a single thing that happens in that fic.

For my particular reading style I would prefer that the writer have everything written then post it in weekly installments. It adds a bit of light and joy in my life to ee my fave fics updated.

But I can see why writers can't or don't complete thier fics before posting them. I know that I myself couldn't be arsed to write anything were it not for the encouragement of the people who give me feedback. I'm a self admited feedback whore. Sometimes I feel like I am doing the people who read my fics a great disservice because I put alot of foreshadowing and hinting in my fics that will be totally lost on them because they are not reading it one go.

Enough rambling from me.
Malicia

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I love that your notes are longer than the story's going to be!

And I love feedback but can't let myself rely on it. The day I post something I make myself go to bed right after. Usually this'll be in the afternoon or evening so it works out. This is because otherwise I'll sit at the computer checking over and over to see if anyone's read the sucker yet and left me feedback! And under those circumstances people could leave me ten pages of "This is the greatest fic EVER" and I would still be thinking, "Ah, they hate it, I know it..."

[madam-malicia.livejournal.com]

I love that your notes are longer than the story's going to be!
Thats just me being very anal about my fics. LOL. Its getting ridiculous. I need a support group.