Yep another contest! We can’t have too many.
For those that are wondering about me, well, this month will be dedicated to the current one, and the next one will be in September. so participate in this one. I am looking for the perfect song to think about it…. no guarantees yet…
Yes!! We are finally done making banners and looking over the stories, and the polls are set. If you voted before, they didn’t count since not all the stories were listed on it. So we are starting with today, and you have until midnight on the 15th of August for your vote. We are doing one vote per IP address, so make your decisions carefully.
If you leave comments on the reviews (which are more than welcome!) you will not receive any answers until after the contest ends. Authors are highly encouraged to read the reviews.
One of the stories in here called, Final Strand was given anonymously, and only if the author wishes to step forward will it be told who did it. But this one is dedicated to the late EricIzMine who had a birthday last month. I am just honored that one of my pictures inspired this fic to be written.
And then there is all these amazing stories, that I worked hard in getting banners for. In fact, one of the ladies in my group made a banner since I was unhappy with the one I made since I couldn’t do the wings. FallingStar made the Banner for Where the Heart is. I was thrilled with her work, and I hope the author is also. Again, nothing will be revealed until after the 15th.
I will say thank you to all the authors who submitted stories, and I was thrilled to stretch out my skills, and to have some of the ladies help me make banners for the stories. I enjoyed reading them all, and I hope you authors will grab the participation banner below. Which coincidently is also the link to the July 31st, 2014 stories.
Lets make this a great experience for those that took a chance and submitted stories. Give them the encouragement to continue to write.
And lastly, when the contest is done, if you can let us know, we will be happy to add your names to your banners. They are yours to keep when it is all done. A thank you for your work!
As a side note, these are items that are unique to my contest and mine only. When we came up with this idea, it was to encourage writers to write something, or to help those that were stuck. One of the things I craved so much when I started was banners. So MissRon80 agreed to make banners for the ladies. She went one step farther and made them different banners for the winners, which blew me away. She also made the original participation banners. Again, this was to encourage writers. Since then, we have continued this practice even when our dedicated banner maker was no longer with our group. Instead, I normally do all the banners, the only exception was this month when we had a record number of entries.
Making banners is not easy for yourself. I have taken an hour to 3 hours to make one banner for myself. And I have an idea of what I want. Making them for others… Well that is harder. You push yourself even harder when it is another person you make them for. I read each entry that I made a banner for.. making notes to myself for ideas… And then opened a blank banner on photoshop and start working. There were a couple fails. One spectacular one on one particular banner that had all my ladies scrambling to find different pictures for me to work with.
I do NOT blame anyone hosting contests for not doing anything like I do, and in fact, I would be shocked if they did! Sephrenia made 1 banner for each different fandom and the winner got the banner. What I do with mine is a lot of work I would not wish on anyone else, and particularly this contest, that if you wanted an angel, you just had to contact me, and your character was made. I took into consideration a lot of things when making the angels, even if a shoulder was tilted and so forth.
I only wanted to make sure people realized this, since one of the contests that is on right now, received an anonymous email (To the point they made up an email that was anonymous??@host.com) berating her for not doing all this. Not everyone can make banners, I couldn’t for the longest time. And then to expect others to do what I do? Not cool people. Instead.. read the stories and be happy that they hosted a contest that inspires others to write.
So read, comment, and appreciate the little things. I am going off to vote in the other contest, since I never vote on my own contests, in case I need to be the tie breaker. And if you want to read the stories in the other contest, click on the post below to go there. I may… or may not have an entry on there. Try to guess if I do and which it is……
Enjoy!
Don’t forget, to go vote on this one. I may or may not have submitted a story in this contest. Hey. Got to support my ladies!
Our very own Gyllene is the subject of my reviews for now!! Go read this gem!!
Yes.. For me too for once. I am back after vacation, and I will admit that I am not wanting to work.
It could have tons to do with the fact that All day Saturday, and then from the moment I got online, I was making banners for the contest. Sundays are my day off as normal, and the betas were very forceful on me keeping to that. Something about me going to bed at 4:34 from working on the banners… I have no idea what they are saying…
The Writing Contest. Wow. Record amount of entries!!! Many thanks to the two ladies below for their help. They made a banner for me since I had so many to make. I thank them so much for their help!!!!
All the entries are available for reading, BUT the poll is not ready, even though it is posted on the side. We found out a couple entries that were sent much earlier in the month went missing, so we put out a call to let anyone know if we are missing the entries, to please forward them to us. One was such a hard time to get through to any email, but we finally got it and it is bannered and up. As soon as our WordPress Whisperer can get all the information linked and so forth, we will be posting a special post for it. There are so many awesome entries I am thrilled for this one. And thanks for all those that made me push beyond my normal skills for the banners. I tried to make each one unique to the story.
So I bet you are wondering what I did on vacation? I finished two additional chapters of HP, and did the next one of IND. I also made all the banners as well as bio’s for the Set You Free Trilogy, all the ones for ED are in there. Also I did the You’re trilogy as well. I played with videos, and am in the process of making one since all the stories are jumbled up and none are speaking clearly for me to start working. But this video is haunting me.
Yes, the normal posting is going on, and you have a new chapter of AIW ready.
Again, I have to thank all of you in the fandom for pulling together to help out ficlet. I was seriously hurt when it happened to me, and the lady was nice about it. but to have it happen like that.. there is no words. If you haven’t read it, the post below this was the thank you from Heather herself.
So without much further ado, enjoy the chapter!
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