Middle-earth Fanfiction Awards

Admin - Story focus: Pre-Ring War, Ring War, Post-Ring War and Beyond, Modern Times and Multi-Age
Hey guys,

Continuing with our (semi-regular) educational posts, this week I would like to draw your attention to some of the types of stories you can vote for in this year's awards.

When a story is nominated, the author describes it as fitting into three groups that will eventually become the main categories. These include the race of the characters involved, the genre, and the time period in which it is set. Authors rank their preference for how they'd like their story categorized, and MEFA volunteers put the story into one of these three category choices.

But perhaps you want to find all the stories involving a particular race, such as Hobbits, not just those competing in the main category for that race? Or all stories relating to a particular time period or of a particular genre, even if they're competing in another category. Our website lets you do that:

1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2009/
2. Click the Stories link at the top of the page.
3. Click the link to show the filter (if it isn't already showing).
4. Click the Clear All Filters button to clear out anything you had searched on before.
5. Select the race, time period, or genre you would like to see from the Genre, Race, Time menu.
6. Click the Display selected nominations button.

This will show you all the stories whose authors selected that category as any one of their three choices. It's a good way to find nearly all of the stories involving a certain character group, set in a certain time period, or of the same genre. While I encourage everyone to broaden their reading habits for the MEFAs, there's also nothing wrong with starting with the types of stories you find most appealing. Or sometimes you are simply in the mood for a certain type of story. These filters can help you in situations like that.

This week, we're listing all the stories in the later time periods -- Pre-Ring War, Ring War, Post-Ring War and Beyond, Modern Times -- as well as those that span multiple ages in Multi-Age.

( Pre-Ring War )

( Ring War )

( Post-Ring War and Beyond )

( Modern Times )

( Multi-Age )

These pieces may be any of the types of stories, ratings, etc. that are accepted for the MEFAs. For more information on each one:

1. Log in to www.mefawards.net/MEFA2009/
2. Click on the stories link at the top of the page.
3. Do a search for the ID number, followed by the # sign. For instance searching for 1349# will bring up the information for The Toymaster of Buckland by annmarwalk.

You can read the story by clicking on the title, or enter a review for it by clicking the link to Enter New Review on the left side of the page.

Have fun reading.

Tanaqui
MEFA Admin Team