Shameless Plug Time

[auronlu]

Okay, while I'm banging away on the Epic Battle chapter of LHaD (coming along nicely) -- stats time!
Chapters: 40 (40 is sitting on my HD being polished)
Words: ~90,000 (ack!)
Started: Dec. 14, 2007
One-shot that started it all: "Alternate Universe" posted on pyre_flies in Apr 2006. 1030 words.

FF.Net Stats: 11,300 hits; after initial die-off ~150 read to the end; 116 comments.
LJ Stats: 425 comments since Dec '07, of which about a third are my replies.

MUCHO thanks to all my reviewers/critics! Your feedback has made it 500% the story it would've been. Especial gratitude to my diehard commenters: trekqueen, cumuluscastle, muggy_mountain, owlmoose, melchar, jlsigman, vandevere

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Now. Shameless Plug and/or PSA!

The Genesis Awards keeps postponing the final awards for Final Fantasy X, and I'm guessing it's because not enough fics have been nominated in some categories. Partly for selfish reasons (LHaD was nominated, but can't compete if there's no contest), and partly because I absolutely want more of the fabulous Final Fantasy writers out there to get the credit they deserve, I am encouraging everybody to nominate one Final Fantasy X Fanfiction story that they think deserves some notice!

This is the first year the Genesis Awards has recognized any fandom besides FFVII, so I am eager to see FFX fic well-represented. (Apologies for sounding like a broken record.)

Comments

[rsasai.livejournal.com]

Ah, thank you for your suggestions!

As for the website--we did in fact have an 'open' forum for quite a while until we had to ban a few members for several reasons. Because of this, the offended took advantage of our open guest policy in the nominations categories, using it as a soapbox to spew hatred.

There's also a rule in effect that states if you would simple like to email in your nomination you may send it to Genesis.awards.admin@gmail.com and it will be added to the website. We've implemented it several times already, though I don't know if it's that people don't know it exists or don't want to spend the time doing it. All we ask is for you to fill out the same form "Title/Author/Links/etc." and send them in.

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

Ah, excellent, I didn't see the part about emailing. I went ahead and registered already, but maybe if you made the email option a little more obvious, it would help you catch a few more people.

Best of luck with the project! I look forward to seeing how it all works out.