White Knight Awards

[lit_gal]

Wow...

I was seeing yin_again and janedavitt posting about their White Knight Award nominations, and so I wandered over there to see some of the offerings (which are great), and I found my own Learning Curve nom'ed for best crossover and the original Trickster nom'ed for best Vamp!Xander (although if there aren't more nominations, that category may not fly this round. 

Thank you!

I've been taking writing classes at the university thinking to polish some skills, but the muse has been taking some major hits as the professors seem to ask for things that don't make much sense to my writer's mind.  I'm still trying to figure out if I have a prof who is a prof because he couldn't make it as a writer or if I just have too much hubris mixed up here to see that I need to change.  But the awards are a wonderful pick-me-up after a hard week of not feeling quite so solid about my own writing.

Oh, and I want to go nominate, but I totally forgot where to find this story, so I'm announcing a FIC SEARCH.

It's a wonderful series with the five ways Xander and Spike didn't meet, each one completely desconstructing canon.  Sound familiar? 

Comments

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

I'm happy you are in the white knight awards. Good for you. I saw I was in and I have mixed feelings. My first one is that I clearly don't belong there. I feel the same way when I see myself in the Herald nowadays.

Its nice you are taking writing courses. I did those a while back and I enjoyed them. I might do that again.

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Kept is nom'ed for best AU, you should totally be there! I know I'm not into the more romantic end of the slash pool, but I've read enough of Kept to know you've done some beautiful work you should be proud of (even if Shards is more my cuppa). And the writing courses.... um... I'm not sure if I'm enjoying them or not. I am getting some great ideas, and I'm getting some feedback that I"m not sure I agree with. I think I'll withhold judgment until the end.

[jans-intentions.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that means a lot coming from you. No problem preferring Shards, everyone has their thing.

Hey, I had a thought. Would you be open to my putting up Beautiful Broken at club_joss for a discussion about the story? Or any of your other stories? I have followed some of the discussions and its a very interesting experience. They do some concrit if the author allows but not the fun, scary you-suck-and-here's-why kind, its very mild if it comes up, generally speaking. I think I'd enjoy a discussion about one of your stories. Up to you.

[lit-gal.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go for it. I always love to get concrit that helps me develop as a writer. I try really hard to encourage it in my own journal, but people aren't always comfortable telling you when you've screwed up.