Zutara Fanfiction Awards

[mrspettyfer]

NOTE: Dates have been pushed back to January. Please read below for the updated schedule.

Hey guys! We just wanted to announce that during the month of January, you all will be able to nominate and vote for your favorite Zutara fanfiction stories! We want to take the time to honor the amazing writers and stories that are out there. We have created a variety of awards since there is such a huge variety of stories. Please take some time and have a look at the list, that way you can do a little recon and find the best for each category.

The current list of awards:

- Best Mystery
- Best AU
- Best Crossover
- Most Addicting Fic
- Best One Shot
- Best Romance
- Best Blutara
- Best Betrothal Fic
- Best Canon Era Fic
- Best Post-Canon Era Fic
- Best Capture Fic
- Most Original Plot
- Favorite Author
- Best Adventure/Action
- Best Humor Fic
- Best Characterization
- Best Smut Fic
- Favorite Story of All Time
- Best Kiss (nominations most include a portion of text from the kiss scene, story title, and authors name)
- Best Zuko Quote (nomination must include quote, story title, and author penname)
- Best Katara Quote (nomination must include quote, story title, and author penname)
- Best Smut Scene (nomination must include a portion of text from the smut scene, story title, and authors penname)

Now just a couple of dates to remember:

We will be taking nominations January 3rd - January 17th.
Voting will be from January 18th - January 28th.
(This gives you two weeks to submit your nominations and about a week and a half to vote.)

A couple of general rules:

- You CAN nominate the same story for more than one award.
- You CAN nominate a story that is already nominated for a specific award. [We are going to take the top 3 or 4 nominations and submit them for voting]
- If the thread is still open, you CAN change your nomination simply by editing your post. DO NOT make a new post in the nomination thread. It will be deleted. Edit.
- We ask that you do not nominate your own story.

Hopefully we will have our own section for the awards, so it will be easy to find. We will let you know where and how to nominate once we create the forums and topics for it. Till then, go enjoy some Zutara fanfiction and start figuring out what stories you want to nominate!

Any questions, please ask in this thread.

[ladyavatar]

Nov 26, 2012 16:08:08 GMT -6 mrspettyfer said:

Any questions, please ask in this thread.

No questions, but I do want to say that holding an awards contest is a magnificent idea!

Mrs P edit: Thanks! Glad to hear. We wanted a way to recognize all the wonderful writers and stories out there. I'm really excited to see the different stories that get nominated!

[mrspettyfer]

No, that would get way too clustered. I'm hoping Vince will make an entire new section for it. Using the "Steam" section as an example. You know how the main section is Steam Section. Then you can click a subforum, like "Steam Room" and then there's topics inside.

What I think will work best is if we have an award section, called like Painted Blue Awards or Fanfiction Awards. Then we have subforums (like the steam room). One would be "nominations" and another would be "voting." Maybe one more for winners. Then when you click that subforum, each award will have it's own topic in that subforum. Then people can put their nominations in the specific thread. So in short, for example:

Painted Blue Awards (section) > Nominations (subforum) > Best AU (topic) > Members post their nominations in the topic

Hope I made sense lol. At least I think that will be easiest, that way everything is separate and we will be able to tally up the nominations pretty easily. So each award has it's own topic/thread, basically, in which people will post the nominations in.

[Vindictev]

I think you should move the dates to January. Zutara Month is already too exhausting to keep up with.

[ladyavatar]

Nov 28, 2012 17:25:18 GMT -6 Vindictev said:

I think you should move the dates to January. Zutara Month is already too exhausting to keep up with.

On the other hand, Zutara Month is exactly when everyone is going to be browsing new and old fanfictions alike since everyone is going to be in the Zutara spirit! Rediscovering old favorite work and finding great new stories could be great sources for nominations.

[Vindictev]

A lot of stories will be created as well, so it's best to wait and see what's produced before we nominate and vote.

[ladyavatar]

Nov 28, 2012 17:31:56 GMT -6 Vindictev said:

A lot of stories will be created as well, so it's best to wait and see what's produced before we nominate and vote.

Hmm . . . perhaps then we should just open the nomination period from Dec. 1 - Dec. 31 and then leave the first two weeks of January for voting? In that case, all of the excellent new Zutara Month work will be eligible! Or maybe I'm over-complicating things and your original January suggestion would be best.

[Vindictev]

There's not really any important Zutara-related things going on in January, which is why I thought moving the dates to that month would be best.

[ladyavatar]

Good observations, everyone. 'Kay, I second the "move to January" idea!

[mrspettyfer]

The only thing..I thought December would be best since it's the end of the year and all, so the awards would be for 2012 rather than 2013.

But we could just call them the 2012 awards anyway and next year, plan for it in December. I'll go ahead and change the dates to January for now.