1) The decision to remove my fic was made by ONE person. There was no comittee, no one asked me if this was a watered version, or what. I was not asked for an explanation. That's too much powah for ONE person to have.
2) There is no record of a complaint - meaning someone 'complained' privately to a friend or someone who knew she would scratch her back. And I have a suspicious feeling WHO that was. this also reeks of favoritism. Just what you want in an awards group, eh? Afraid of the competition? NO problem. Ring up your buddy the moderator, whine and joila! Competition gone!
This information set me off MORE than the fact that I was booted.
Thing is, I know people who KNEW what happened - one entered HER ROhirrim fics who were very similar to what I wrote and hers were accepted, honorable mentions, etc. We were all perplexed.
Elitist. Favortism. Who WANTS to be associated with that?
I am VERY proud of the work and the writing quality of Rider of the Mark. I think my writing skills have grown a lot since I started writing in 2002. I would have LIKED very much to have had some honest, good, CC on Rider before I finished it. I don't feel that it should have been ostrasized like it has. I have refused to allow anything I've written since then to be nominated for anything - and as Zhie will tell you up until that time, I entered a LOT of fanfiction competitions and did rather well. I'm not ashamed of anything I've written.
Well.... Empty Vessel makes me cringe a little but... that's neither here or there.
But yeah.... THAT"S my backstory with the MEFA's. I won't even go to the site to read what's up anymore. I did read this years winner and while the story was 'cute', I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed with the quality of the writing, I found the writer TRYING to sound Tolkien-like - and people fall on their faces when they do that. I found the main female canon character to be so OOC and obnoxious and whiney - and - quite frankly - Bitchy that I hated her through out the entire fic and I secretly wished her husband would knock her overboard on the boat and let her drown. And tha'ts sad because I happen to LIKE this particular female. I've attempted to read two other fics of hers to attempt to get a wider vision and couldn't finish either. I know she has a following, but I find writing like that to be rather milk toast and I find that boring. There is no joy of life, no passion, no love. There is no up and down in moods. It's all one level, one tone. I'm a musician. If her writing was music, it would be the same chord over and over and over and over and over and over and over. no dissonance, no climax (pun NOT intended) no cadence.... no resolution.
Bleh.
But that's me and I admit to bitterness. *shrugs*
(PS = a friend of mine made me the icon when it happened. I'm happy to bring it out of mothballs for a time.)
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Date: 2012-07-03 11:05 pm (UTC)1) The decision to remove my fic was made by ONE person. There was no comittee, no one asked me if this was a watered version, or what. I was not asked for an explanation. That's too much powah for ONE person to have.
2) There is no record of a complaint - meaning someone 'complained' privately to a friend or someone who knew she would scratch her back. And I have a suspicious feeling WHO that was. this also reeks of favoritism. Just what you want in an awards group, eh? Afraid of the competition? NO problem. Ring up your buddy the moderator, whine and joila! Competition gone!
This information set me off MORE than the fact that I was booted.
Thing is, I know people who KNEW what happened - one entered HER ROhirrim fics who were very similar to what I wrote and hers were accepted, honorable mentions, etc. We were all perplexed.
Elitist. Favortism. Who WANTS to be associated with that?
I am VERY proud of the work and the writing quality of Rider of the Mark. I think my writing skills have grown a lot since I started writing in 2002. I would have LIKED very much to have had some honest, good, CC on Rider before I finished it. I don't feel that it should have been ostrasized like it has. I have refused to allow anything I've written since then to be nominated for anything - and as Zhie will tell you up until that time, I entered a LOT of fanfiction competitions and did rather well. I'm not ashamed of anything I've written.
Well.... Empty Vessel makes me cringe a little but... that's neither here or there.
But yeah.... THAT"S my backstory with the MEFA's. I won't even go to the site to read what's up anymore. I did read this years winner and while the story was 'cute', I wasn't impressed. I wasn't impressed with the quality of the writing, I found the writer TRYING to sound Tolkien-like - and people fall on their faces when they do that. I found the main female canon character to be so OOC and obnoxious and whiney - and - quite frankly - Bitchy that I hated her through out the entire fic and I secretly wished her husband would knock her overboard on the boat and let her drown. And tha'ts sad because I happen to LIKE this particular female. I've attempted to read two other fics of hers to attempt to get a wider vision and couldn't finish either. I know she has a following, but I find writing like that to be rather milk toast and I find that boring. There is no joy of life, no passion, no love. There is no up and down in moods. It's all one level, one tone. I'm a musician. If her writing was music, it would be the same chord over and over and over and over and over and over and over. no dissonance, no climax (pun NOT intended) no cadence.... no resolution.
Bleh.
But that's me and I admit to bitterness. *shrugs*
(PS = a friend of mine made me the icon when it happened. I'm happy to bring it out of mothballs for a time.)