MEFAs

[dreamflower]

163 reviews down; 494 to go. Will I make it this year?

Comments

[bodkin-ra.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's impressive.

[dreamflower]

Is it? I'm behind from where I was this time last year, and remembering what happened to almost keep me from my goal then, I worry if I will make my goal for this year...

[ansostuff.livejournal.com]

0 reviews done, all to go. Will I manage any? I am planning on doing it though. I can't remember when the deadline is though.

[dreamflower]

I think the end of September, but am not certain. I believe the info is on the site, though.

And you've had limited computer access in recent months, so it's perfectly understandable.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I keep promising myself that I will go over and write my reviews. I've read a great deal but for some reason I just can't seem to get down to writing the reviews! This weekend! Someone needs to come by the house and stand over me until I get started on it. I don't suppose you're up to traveling here and threatening me yet what with the surgery and all. Do a Farmer Maggot and set the dogs on me, will you?

[dreamflower]

Well, I get started by reviewing all my nominees first, and then fics I've already read...and last year I systematically went through subcategories, but this year I'm being kind of random.

*Sugar!*Sissy!*GW won't write her reviews!*sic 'er*What do you mean it's too much work?*Lazy dogs!*

Sorry, GW, they won't cooperate. They'd rather lay around and eat ice cubes and growl at each other.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

You know, I can understand that completely. Nothing better than ice on a hot day. Guess I will just have to make myself get on this another way. LOL

[lily-the-hobbit.livejournal.com]

Wow... that's very impressive. I've only managed 5 or so. Hope I will get to do some more before the end.

[dreamflower]

Hey, any at all is a Good Thing!

[slightlytookish]

Wow, that is dedication! So far i've only managed "tentative" reviews of the stories I nominated...I hope to go back and add more to those. I was able to review more stories last year, but time is just getting away from me lately. :(

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Wow. *is impressed* Haven't even made it over there at all yet.

[dreamflower]

There's a lot of good fic over there! And some great reviews as well. There will be a new batch of reviews released sometime today--I never understand the GMT thing.

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I really need to get with the program and start producing again.
Part of it is that I miss having Marigold in my life (my fault entirely) but I wrote a lot even before I met her and I want to recapture the magic.
Good luck to you, dear one, you deserve tons of accolades!

[dreamflower]

Well ((((hugs to you))))).

I think you can pull it together, dear!

As for "accolades", it hardly seems to me something I deserve, just for spending a little time doing something I love. And I am lucky in having more time than most of you, who have work and other obligations.

[mumstheword54.livejournal.com]

I have a question about the MEFAs: Are stories nominated only in the year when they were completed? I know of some stories that I should have nominated this year but didn't, so I wonder if I can nominate them next year.

In any case,

*double-rich brownies to all of you who are reviewing*

[dreamflower]

Any story which has not been previously nominated may be nominated as long as it's posted before the nominating season deadline. (The date on that is not always the same every year.)

The exception is WIPs. They may be nominated again after they are finished.

*yum*

(Actually, I made some brownies myself last night. They were meant to be given away, but it turned out I couldn't so we're just going to be *forced* to eat them ourselves. *tsk*tsk*tsk*)

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

It was explained to me thusly - someone had nominated certain pieces of my story on LJ, and then someone nominated the version that's on Stories of Arda. Being intellectually honest, I pointed it out to the mods, who explained it to me this way:

WIPs can be nominated if they've never been nominated before. The only way to nominate a story twice is if it was nominated as a WIP one year and was completed some year other than the year in which it was nominated as a WIP.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

Dang! That's a lot of reviewing! I don't know how you even have time to *read* so many stories, much less *review* them. You must be a much faster reader than I am.

[dreamflower]

Well, you know, I've already read a goodly number of them (yours for example) so all I have to do is click on the story enough to refresh my memory. Then I can write the review--as draft or hidden, and then double check before I finalize it. And there are a lot of drabbles (or "fixed-length-ficlet" as they call them this year.) I have a feeling that as the number of drabbles and stories I've read goes down, and the number of stories I haven't ever read creeps up, I will be slowing down a *lot*.

And I reviewed my nominees first, too. That helps.