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Hello all

This is the Voice of Experience.

There will be a fairly even division between novel-length stories in
all categories, and relatively short ones. There never seems to be a
happy medium.

That said, will we want to divide the categories to reflect this?

Khazar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: khazar_khum [mailto:dlmbyrne@gte.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:44 PM
> To: MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [MEFAwards] Length of Stories
>
> Hello all
>
> This is the Voice of Experience.
>
> There will be a fairly even division between novel-length
> stories in all categories, and relatively short ones. There
> never seems to be a happy medium.

I have been marking vignette and short story as subcategory suggestions in
my own nominations and the three categories I record.

> That said, will we want to divide the categories to reflect this?

We *might*. And I leave it at that. In alt.startrek.creative, long and
short compete together. Drabbles, however, usually get their own
subcategory.

*If* we do go with certain subecategories of length (and remember this would
have be obvious from the nomination. There is nothing in that form that
asks how long the story is), any subcategory creeated still has to be
viable: at least five stories by two authors. If a category is large and
can stand to be divided and length looks like a good way to do it, it's
certainly possible.

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