awards // featured fanfic
Calling all Buffy fanfic writers! Do you really love feedback and/or awards? All the other awards I offer are just for people with sites, but this is the one for people with fanfic. Just to explain the bit. I give out this award only one time approximately once a month. Winners have their stories posted on the main page for the time they are featured and will still have their stories posted on the past winners page after that. Winners also get an award from me that they can print out, put on their site, whatever. So, you get the award and you get people from my site reading your story. It's a win-win situation! If you're interested, be sure you check out the rules!
requirements
The story should
have Buffy as *the* main character, or one of them. IE, a Buffy/Spike fic.
Can be any rating
from G-NC17, but I am fond of plots. :)
No offense to slash
lovers... it's really not my thing. And since I have to read the story in order
to determine if it's a winner, I'm not willing to read about Buffy all of a
sudden playing for the other team. The exception would only be if the story
is about a threesome, involving Buffy and two other characters. If there's a
bit of it there, I will accept it.
You have to agree
to let me post the fic on my server.
The story must be
in English, as that's the only language I know and I have to be able to read
it.
If you haven't bothered
to run spell-check, don't bother to apply. I know that my grammer is by far
not perfect, but if your story is painful to read with words spelled wrong and
lots of other stuff that makes me think you really don't care about proofreading,
I'm not going to read it.
No bashing fics.
And I don't just mean Buffy-bashing. It's a well-known fact that I hate hate
HATE 'Riley and Bessie the Cow' fics. They are immature and stupid and this
award is for good writers.
I'm really really
hesitant to allow stories that are part of series', because this award is for
one fic and I will only be posting the one fic. However, if your
story works as a standalone (it has a beginning, middle and ending), I will
accept it.
No unfinished fics.
How can I judge a story if I haven't read all of it? If your story isn't done,
wait until it is and come apply.
It has to be your
story. I have had trouble in the past dealing with ungrateful winners after
people tried to be nice and applied for awards for them, plus, I need to be
able to get permission to post the fic.
No crossover stories
unless it is with "Angel."
The magic word is
bollocks. Remember that, because you will be asked later. I feel the need to
use the phrase because I find people often don't bother to read rules.