multifaceted awards nomination
Feb. 4th, 2006 06:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schemingreaderHey! This is a neat thing, and I'm not sure how to react to it!
Some nice person on my flist (I presume) nominated my historical novel in progress, The Heart's Obligations, for a Multifaceted Award. I'm really flattered.
I have to decide whether to accept the nomination. It's a work in progress and it has not been proofed by a beta reader. I haven't seen much like it in fandom--I wouldn't go out on a limb and call it unique, but it's different, and it seems unlikely that even if it were perfect to my own (not that strict) standards that it could win anything.
Here's what I could do:
1. Don't accept the nomination, because the story is unfinished and needs to be at the very least proofread. Pimping it more widely could be embarassing and could draw mean, critical readers.
2. Accept the nomination, and get beta readers to help make it more consistent before the voting. (I should probably solicit that kind of help anyway, but it's so many pages already!)
3. Accept the nomination, and proof it myself real fast to make it a bit more consistent, adding author's notes like crazy.
4. Accept the nomination and enjoy the new readers, it doesn't have a shot at winning anything anyway.
What do you think?
Some nice person on my flist (I presume) nominated my historical novel in progress, The Heart's Obligations, for a Multifaceted Award. I'm really flattered.
I have to decide whether to accept the nomination. It's a work in progress and it has not been proofed by a beta reader. I haven't seen much like it in fandom--I wouldn't go out on a limb and call it unique, but it's different, and it seems unlikely that even if it were perfect to my own (not that strict) standards that it could win anything.
Here's what I could do:
1. Don't accept the nomination, because the story is unfinished and needs to be at the very least proofread. Pimping it more widely could be embarassing and could draw mean, critical readers.
2. Accept the nomination, and get beta readers to help make it more consistent before the voting. (I should probably solicit that kind of help anyway, but it's so many pages already!)
3. Accept the nomination, and proof it myself real fast to make it a bit more consistent, adding author's notes like crazy.
4. Accept the nomination and enjoy the new readers, it doesn't have a shot at winning anything anyway.
What do you think?
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Date: 2006-02-05 12:08 am (UTC)And you forgot option 5: Accept the nomination, enjoy the readers, and smile winningly as you accept the award!
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Date: 2006-02-05 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 12:48 am (UTC)BTW (la la la) what e-mail would you like me to use with the Multifaceted noms? (no reason, no reason, la la la)
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Date: 2006-02-05 12:51 am (UTC)I'm gonna nominate you back though, so look out.
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Date: 2006-02-05 01:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 01:30 am (UTC)I'm only going to read in the categories where I think I'll have an opinion.
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Date: 2006-02-05 01:35 am (UTC)* looks around shiftily * I may only vote for things I've already read....
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Date: 2006-02-05 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 02:51 am (UTC)Congrats on the nomination, btw!
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:05 am (UTC)I am happy to be nominated for something like this. I do think I need to line up my ducks on this story. I'm in the middle of writing the fourth chapter, and it might get a lot longer. I'm not sure.
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:30 am (UTC)I really need to read this fic of yours that was nominated. I'm sure it's great!
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:37 am (UTC)Yes, please do read my story. You can find it here. I have not archived it off of this site yet. I would consider putting it up on Skyhawke, but I really don't think it's ready. Plus there are killer formatting issues with Skyhawke and I am just not ready to cope with the craziness of reformatting these long chapters.
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 03:50 am (UTC)Plus he is such a drama queen that if he's not queer in canon, it's just because JKR is such a wimp about homosexuality.
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:11 am (UTC)How many popular children's series do address homosexuality? All I can think of is L'Engle.... I think it must be a publisher's thing, that there are rules (spoken or unspoken) about what they will or will not take. Imagine if in the last the book Harry does get together with Draco: would they publish it? I wonder....
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-02-05 05:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 03:43 pm (UTC)I have been nominated before, and I have to confess that unlike Segurochka I can't say it did *anything* to my reader numbers at all; but it's just nice that somebody thinks a story of mine belongs on that list. Why refuse?
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Date: 2006-02-05 04:30 pm (UTC)I have a vision for The Heart's Obligations that I don't know if I can realize. I want to write a full-length novel, so that I have something under my belt to bolster me when I start writing original (or maybe independent is a better word?) fiction. I am also hoping that when it's done, I can set it up on its own site, with fan art and period photographs and stuff like that.
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Date: 2006-02-06 01:32 pm (UTC)Your plans for it sound great! I adore it when authors put so much work in their stories - in fanfic I fear that's rather rare.
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Date: 2006-02-06 01:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-06 03:34 pm (UTC)I don't know how you'll take this comment, but to me personally the story isn't fanfic at all. If you hadn't pointed out the character borrowings you would have had me convinced that this is entirely original, or independent. This seems to me a story inspired by certain dynamics you have found in the Potter series, but so different from those books that - well, I think if you published this nobody would get it in their heads to accuse you of any kind of plagiarism :D.
This is a great story; I'm reading it as a Jewish historical novel and not as fanfic, but maybe that's personal. I can't wait for the next chapter...
(The only thing that does nag me a bit is how you switch between tenses; is that a conscious choice?)
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Date: 2006-02-06 03:45 pm (UTC)It is a Jewish historical novel. It's also a parallel to the HP series in nearly every way. It takes place 100 years earlier (the marauder generation were all born in 1960, my characters in 1860). All of the events just happen to be parallel--there really were pogroms in 1881 that correspond roughly to the DE violence that killed Harry's parents in 1981. I did a bit of reading to make it work historically.
I'm writing the fourth chapter now and having some fun with some of the parallels.
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Date: 2006-02-05 11:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-05 11:24 pm (UTC)But I wrote some weird, disturbing and hot het this afternoon for it.