I've got a project

[thismaz]

I've been on holiday for 3 whole weeks. It's been great, reading stuff and not writing as much as I intended. Then the other day, sexymermaid posted a note in darker_spike that the rerunawards needed more votes. That finally spurred me in to action. So I went to the Master List all set to do my 'civic duty'.

I decided I wasn't qualified to judge anything except BtVS/AtS or Firefly - I just don't know the other fandoms well enough to recognise OOC if it came and kicked me in the shins.

The Best of Buffy and Angel list was just daunting (118 nominations!). So I went for the Best of Firefly with a mere 12 nominations.

Taking notes as I read, so I can remember how good a story is, means hard copy. Those 12 nominations (taking only the first 3 chapters of large works) end up as 45 pages of A4 - even with the font all set at Ariel 10pt and the paragraph spacing removed.

But I have read them all and I just went and voted.

That's not the project. I now have 449 pages of BtVS/AtS to read. And that is ignoring the ones with broken or incorrect links or which I read recently.

If anyone wants a copy of either word document, to save you doing all the clicking and stuff... send me an e-mail to maztodaygonetomorrow-at-hotmail.co.uk and I'll send them to you. Voting ends September 29th

ps I probably should apologise to Dulin (and possibly others) I didn't notice the instruction not to take or reproduce without permission until I had printed the document out. But I did only take the first 3 parts.

Comments

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

That was where you were going to do the 6 facts meme, yes? I went to look, but couldn't see it *guilts you* ;-)
Have friended now.
So where is this D/s poll? *going to look in a moment*
Yes, some writers really catch the voices beautifully. But that is what I love about Joss'verse fic - when a writer catches the voices, without directly quoting from the scripts, when they catch the essence and use their own words in that idiom (is that the word I am looking for?) it is wonderful.

btw - Sparrow and I might have a bit in common, but I refute any suggestion (which I acknowledge you have not made) that it is a British thing *grin*

[sparrow2000.livejournal.com]

Nah, definitely not a British thing. Maybe it could be the northern work ethic? Or maybe it's just the mid life scream that there must be more writing out there that isn't Dan Brown!

[thismaz.livejournal.com]

*grin* Yes, there must be. I haven't read that, nor am I planning to.