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Does this (what I quoted below) imply limiting the number of entries by an
author somehow? I know I felt chagrined to have so many entries, when I looked
at the lists later--this was because most of them I submitted myself. I was
going thru a bad patch, and looking for feedback at the time, and so submitted a
bunch of my own stuff since I figured nobody else would.

Insecurity raises its head... (dh read one of my stories aloud to the kiddos
last night, and what I had thought so charming on paper or monitor sounded,
read aloud, boring and impossibly dull. And so I look at my positive comments
once more and bless those who took the time to read and leave encouraging words,
while again resisting the compulsion to chuck the writing in the dustbin)

Aargh. Sorry.
Lin

In a message dated 12/1/2004 2:07:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com writes:
but this is
also supposed to be fun, and it isn't fun for 500 people to see nine
or twelve people walk away with all the goodies.


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I'm not sure if you're against limits on entries by an author or for them.
But either way, there won't be any.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder

"This evil cannot be concealed by the power of the Elves," Elrond said, "for
it is Windows-compatible, and freeware at that." --H.F.

http://gabrielle.sytes.net/mefa The Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards
Blog: http://www.ainaechoiriel.blogspot.com



-----Original Message-----
From: bljean@aol.com [mailto:bljean@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 6:03 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] PM: I don't know what you'd call the topic


Does this (what I quoted below) imply limiting the number of entries by an
author somehow? I know I felt chagrined to have so many entries, when I
looked at the lists later--this was because most of them I submitted myself.
I was going thru a bad patch, and looking for feedback at the time, and so
submitted a bunch of my own stuff since I figured nobody else would.

Insecurity raises its head... (dh read one of my stories aloud to the kiddos
last night, and what I had thought so charming on paper or monitor sounded,
read aloud, boring and impossibly dull. And so I look at my positive
comments once more and bless those who took the time to read and leave
encouraging words, while again resisting the compulsion to chuck the writing
in the dustbin)

Aargh. Sorry.
Lin

In a message dated 12/1/2004 2:07:17 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com writes:
but this is
also supposed to be fun, and it isn't fun for 500 people to see nine or
twelve people walk away with all the goodies.


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Part of the original post seems to have vanished, but it looks like someone is worried about a
handful of people reaping the wins. Am I correct?

This is an unfortunately common complaint. The more prolific writers are often singled out,
because their output makes the chances of success better. And there are also a handful of
writers whose work is so clearly superior that to "handicap" them by limiting wins seems unfair.
But there is also a legit argument that seeing the same people win several categories makes the
whole thing look somewhat biased.

I haven't yet found a good solution to this--and I'd love to hear some.

khazar
I'm not sure if you're against limits on entries by an author or for them.
But either way, there won't be any.

--Ainaechoiriel
MEFA Admin and Founder



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