Fanfic Contest Discussion Thread

[Cherry Lover]

Well, your offer is definitely really good, we just need more than one prize, really.

And, yeah, I wasn't offering myself to judge, I was just saying that I'm not sure most people can judge the entries equally, which makes a "reader's favourite" category a bit difficult to make work here.

[Elf]

People just vote on whatever story they like best.

Hell, we can just ditch the categories, make it straight porn everything's welcome, yaoi, yuri, het, and the kinky and then people judge what their favorite is.  Then the judges have their favorite.

So technically we have two prizes, one for Judge's and one for Public.

However the Judging would have a scoring system though.

[Cherry Lover]

Well, I do like the idea of the categories. For one thing it encourages a bit more variety, and it also differentiates it a bit from the normal lemon contests. Even if there are no prizes for them I still think they should be there.

Also, having the readers judge really encourages people to write popular pairings and methods of sex, because unpopular ones just won't win.

It depends somewhat on what we can get, though....

[Elf]

Well, we can go with the four categories and then get a "People's Choice" one as well.

. . . That also means we'd probably need five-six prizes.

[Cherry Lover]

Yeah, we need to find some way to get hold of more prizes....

[Alice]

I think the first step then is figuring out who we can ask and then asking them. Can't hurt to ask as many people as we can, after all.

[Cherry Lover]

Yeah, definitely.

Although, honestly, I'm not sure how important the prizes really are. From what I've seen with the BL contest half of the people entering don't even want them (although I suspect Elf's offer of writing a fic won't get turned down...). Having something is good, but I don't think we necessarily need a prize for each category.

[Alice]

That's certainly true. ...Would certainly motivate me though.

...because I have no Nasuverse figures so far and it makes me sad. :<

[Elf]

Hell, I'll admit, it motivates me.

[Cherry Lover]

Well, yeah, having some prizes is definitely good, but if we can't get enough we can still have categories without a prize for them.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Can a prize be a picture of me shirtless

because that's all I got really

btw I'd totally be down for judging, if the hunt goes on

[Cherry Lover]

Well, more judges would be useful, if you think you can handle anything that comes up.