MEFA Reviews--whoo hoo!

[dreamflower]

Voting season has begun on the MEFAs!

The *finalized* reviews are now visible! It's so cool! Even more fun than seeing some of the reviews for my own stories was seeing that there are other reviews for the ones I nominated!

I fell short of my goal, yesterday: I wanted to have 300 reviews posted before the voting season began, but I fell somewhat short of that. On the other hand I got over half of my tentative reviews switched over to final, so that's good!

Well, I'm going back to bed now. I was up at 3:30 to see the DH off--he has a four hour drive to be at a seminar this morning. But I'm going to spend a good deal of time when I wake up again finalizing the rest of my tentative reviews!

Comments

[shirebound]

What a dedicated and wonderful reviewer you are! I'll bet you discovered some fantastic new stories.

:D

[dreamflower]

Oh, I *have*! I have even been lured into reading some really good non-hobbity stories! It's a great place to fish for a good long read! And also to get to re-read old favorites!

[rhapsody11.livejournal.com]

Last night I got kicked out before I could finalise more, somehow the system doesn't like me. I hope I can wrap it up before the end of the voting season. How many have you written so far? I have the idea that you have wrote a lot...

[dreamflower]

Yeah, I got kicked off more than once over the last three days myself.

I have done 282 so far. I was hoping to make 300 before today, but couldn't quite make it. And I finalized 154 of my tentative reviews.

[bodkin-ra.livejournal.com]

I've only done about 120. You make me feel like an amateur!

[dreamflower]

Well, when I realized it was *possible* I actually *started* my tentative reviews as soon as nomination season opened. A lot of people did not understand they could do that. And I have more free time than a lot of folks, and now I've "retired" I have even more.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

*bounce bounce bounce*

I must say your reviews are amazing. I'm going to have to go into some of my tentative reviews and pull up socks before I finalize them now...

[dreamflower]

Thanks. I made sure I left *reeaaallllly* long ones for *my* nominees, *grin*! And then the rest are more or less the kind of review I'd leave anyway, not worrying much about points. And as time gets shorter, the reviews are going to get shorter as well. My goal is to review *all* the stories with hobbits in them, and then try to review at least one story by each author if I can. *Whoosh* Loads of work ahead in the next month! But what fun work it will be!

[lil-banik-slave.livejournal.com]

*Is excited*

[dreamflower]

*Me too!*

[azur-infinie.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the reviews you left on my stories :)

*hugs*

[dreamflower]

Just what they deserve, is all.

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Cool! I wonder if there is still time to review?

[dreamflower]

Oh Yes! You can still read and review up until Sept. 30

[elendiari22.livejournal.com]

Oh, good! I've been remiss in my reviewing, and I'm trying to catch up.

[melilot-hill.livejournal.com]

Wow, you've been busy :-)

[dreamflower]

I have; but I'm a bit bummed today, because although I got in a few *new* reviews--mostly for drabbles or stories I've already read--the site went down before I could get to a couple of the longer stories I'd earmarked for reading.

*huggles*

[etharei.livejournal.com]

Hi! I don't think we've ever spoken before, but I just wanted to tell you that your Hobbit fics are absolutely delightful. I've recently finished "A New Reckoning" and am going through the other post-Quest stuff before starting on "A Road to Edoras". There's something wonderfully endearing about your writing style, which I feel is faithful to what Tolkien envisioned for his Shire-folk. I've started scribbling some Hobbit-centric stuff, and I'm hoping that you wouldn't mind if I acknowledged the influence your story has had on me. Thanks for all your beautiful stories!

Re: *huggles*

[dreamflower]

I'm so glad to hear from you. Don't be shy--come on in, the water's fine. Besides I'm a vain creature, and never get tired of being told someone likes my stories! Fanfic and cooking: the two greatest ego-boo activities there are. Immediate feedback, LOL!

I am glad you like my style. I am afraid I find my own style just a little pedestrian compared to the beautiful styles of some other authors, but I love the characters, and I love exploring their lives and relationships, especially those of the four Travellers.

And as for influence, well, I've been influenced by some of the best: Lulleny, Baylor, Shirebound, Budgielover, just to name a tiny fraction of them. To think I have influenced someone else makes me feel very good.

I'll try to keep an eye out for your future stuff. Where are you planning to post?

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Do you have a link to the Mefa site? The one I have doesn't seem to work and I can't get in at all. :(

[dreamflower]

It's not the link. The site's been down off and on all day. I got on for a while this morning, and then got booted off. Same thing this afternoon, and then I couldn't get back on at all. I think they must be working on something.

[gamgeefest.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten all about this! Thank you for the reviews! (((huggles)))

[dreamflower]

I still have a few of yours left to review. I was going gangbusters on them the other day, and the site went down on me. So I need to get back to some that I was doing then.