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Encourage such votes, yes, and perhaps I will even write one, though it goes
against the grain. I tried to write author comments this time around and my
brain just froze at trying to generalise. Perhaps it's because I wrote such
extensive comments in the stories, and didn't want to appear to be vote-stacking
(or whatever the term might be) by repeating myself.

But after reading a great many Author Votes, now that it's all over, I have
an idea of what to do. Hurrah.

Might I make a suggestion about such? (This might even have been done this
year, I don't know, I've been pretty out of the loop due to various issues.
Barely got the reading and voting done in one category. Hoping for better next
year.)

How about having sample "votes" for a make-believe story and make-believe
author vote?

Something like this: (disclaimer: if this is a real author, or if these are
real titles, well, I've never heard of them!)

Sample vote:

Better and Better by NotJRRT

Absolutely fantastic story! From the first sentence, the author pulls you
into an amazing journey through the length and breadth of Middle-earth. The
characterisations were spot-on. Hits you right in the gut with a surprise ending
that I don't want to give away, if you haven't read it yet. And all this in just
the length of a drabble!

Sample Author Vote:

NotJrRT (Better and Better, Like a Hot Knife through Butterbur, Death! Death!
Death!)
This author is new to me; I've never read anything quite like the drabbles in
this category. An amazing sweep of imagination in a marvellous economy of
carefully-chosen words. I'm looking forward to future endeavors!

Thanks,
Lin

In a message dated 12/7/2004 3:45:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com writes:
On the other hand, there were not a lot of author votes as a general
rule. That's not a very democratic way to hand out author awards. So
in that light, something does need to change. Maybe we just need to
encourage author votes. Maybe even make it a requirement that on the
submitted ballots, people include at least one author vote, even if
they don't want to comment on the rest. I hesitate to do that and I
can't think of a good way to enforce it, but maybe someone else can
make something of it.


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I could certainly add some sample votes (either made up or some of myvotes
from the ASCs) to the How to Vote texts. It'd take up a lot of space on the
ballot.

--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: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:25 PM
To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [MEFAwards] Re: PM: Author comments


Encourage such votes, yes, and perhaps I will even write one, though it goes
against the grain. I tried to write author comments this time around and my
brain just froze at trying to generalise. Perhaps it's because I wrote such
extensive comments in the stories, and didn't want to appear to be
vote-stacking (or whatever the term might be) by repeating myself.

But after reading a great many Author Votes, now that it's all over, I have
an idea of what to do. Hurrah.

Might I make a suggestion about such? (This might even have been done this
year, I don't know, I've been pretty out of the loop due to various issues.
Barely got the reading and voting done in one category. Hoping for better
next
year.)

How about having sample "votes" for a make-believe story and make-believe
author vote?

Something like this: (disclaimer: if this is a real author, or if these are
real titles, well, I've never heard of them!)

Sample vote:

Better and Better by NotJRRT

Absolutely fantastic story! From the first sentence, the author pulls you
into an amazing journey through the length and breadth of Middle-earth. The
characterisations were spot-on. Hits you right in the gut with a surprise
ending that I don't want to give away, if you haven't read it yet. And all
this in just the length of a drabble!

Sample Author Vote:

NotJrRT (Better and Better, Like a Hot Knife through Butterbur, Death!
Death!
Death!)
This author is new to me; I've never read anything quite like the drabbles
in this category. An amazing sweep of imagination in a marvellous economy of
carefully-chosen words. I'm looking forward to future endeavors!

Thanks,
Lin

In a message dated 12/7/2004 3:45:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com writes:
On the other hand, there were not a lot of author votes as a general rule.
That's not a very democratic way to hand out author awards. So in that
light, something does need to change. Maybe we just need to encourage author
votes. Maybe even make it a requirement that on the submitted ballots,
people include at least one author vote, even if they don't want to comment
on the rest. I hesitate to do that and I can't think of a good way to
enforce it, but maybe someone else can make something of it.


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



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