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Dumbledore Silver Trinket Awards
We would like to announce the Dumbledore Silver Trinket Awards.



In an effort to promote writing excellence, Sink Into Your Eyes has formulated a series of Awards. We will be presenting this award monthly for the best in the following categories: Drama, Romance, Comedy, Angst, Overall Story and Author. At the end of the year, the monthly winners will compete against each other in their category for the story of the year.



Every writer has the chance to win one of these awards, but as the entire membership will have the option to vote, we would suggest that you submit the most polished story or chapter that you can write. Proofread your story and use a Beta. The SIYE membership has some of the keenest, most discerning readers that I have ever had the opportunity to work with, so if someone offers a suggestion in their review, look on it as a learning tool, and correct your work.



Now, for those of you that are wondering how this will work, I will try to explain it as clearly as possible.



1. The first of each month, we begin with a clean slate. Nominations will only be accepted for a story that has either been written or updated during the current month. As a member of SIYE, you may nominate as many deserving stories or authors as you want during the month. However, please do not send in multiple nominations for the same story and same category.



2. If the SIYE staff or Awards committee notices fraudulent nominations or voting, Admin has the authority to eliminate that story from consideration. If you would like your story to be considered for an award, please refrain from dishonestly stuffing the nomination and ballot boxes. Furthermore, do not set up multiple accounts under different names, we will know. One person ... one vote.



3. On the third or fourth of the following month, we will announce the top five nominations in each category. Any member of SIYE will then have seven days to vote. On the eighth day, we will announce the winners. Please only vote once.



4. So that we can announce our annual winners prior to the Christmas Holiday, we will vote on our Best of the Year awards the second week of December. The winners will receive the following awards.



a. Founding Four's Story of the Year

b. Albus Dumbledore's Author of the Year

c. Amortentia Award for Romantic Distinction

d. Marauder's Comedy of the Year Award

e. Minerva McGonagall's Award for Dramatic Excellence

f. Severus Snape's Angsty Underpants Award



During the month of December, we will be busy. We will have to select the monthly winners for November the first week, annual winners the second and accept nominations for the December monthly awards throughout.



This will take commitment by everyone at SIYE. The staff, writers and readers, but we feel that it will be worth it.



Please send your nominations to professor_scroll@siye.co.uk. You can find this address by going to Extras and clicking on the Staff Directory. It will be in the Admin section under Valerie



The nominations for February are now open.
Professor Scroll on 2006.02.11 - 03:01PM ()

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bibliophile19 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:23PM to say:

Something I forgot to ask during the email discussions: Are the stories of staff members allowed to be nominated, and are staff members themselves allowed to vote?



Torak came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:27PM to say:

I hope so.... Because as we all know, I'm brilliant.

In fact, I think we should have another category. "Best Torak fic in the last week."

With a cash prize.



PhoenixAeternum came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:35PM to say:

Brilliant, Andrew...

A Torak specific, award... Oh dear. Straightjackets and Toadies abound.

And Andrew, you don't update once a week. Shame, shame, my friend, shame, shame.



bibliophile19 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:37PM to say:

Before you two comedians take over the post, can I get an answer to my question?



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:40PM to say:

Joseph Yes, any story that was presented that month is equal, and staff can nominate and vote, even for themselves.

Andrew The committee will take your suggestion under advisement. Tyler already even named it 'Straightjackets and Toadies Award'.



bibliophile19 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 03:58PM to say:

So the straightjacket award would be for the looniest fic, and the toadies award would be for the best Ministry fic?



PhoenixAeternum came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 04:02PM to say:

I'm all good for it!



Potter47 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 04:19PM to say:

"...staff can nominate and vote, even for themselves" -- I'm not a member of the staff, but does that mean ANYONE can nominate and vote for themself? Or just vote once someone else has nominated you?



Torak came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 05:02PM to say:

Can we add a category? Similar to the Razzies, for worst fic?

We had a surefire winner this evening. The author was just taking the mickey, quite obviously.



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 05:09PM to say:

Potter47 Anyone that is a member of the site, readers, writers and staff, may nominate any story written or updated in that particular month, and then vote when the time comes.

If you feel the story your are reading warrants a nomination in any category, nominate it. 1 story or 100 that is the readers perogative.



Ginebra Wood came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 06:17PM to say:

Dolores Umbridge´s Award for the worst fic of the month, what do you think?



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 07:51PM to say:

Hmm, that's a thought. I think it would be a hoot, but I wouldn't want authors trying to outdo each other to be the worst. We're trying to raise the quality.



PhoenixAeternum came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 08:17PM to say:

As sadistically satisfying it would be to have a single fic that is definitively the absolute worst, there are too many people who would see this as an honour. As Professor Scroll mentioned, we want to raise the quality here at SIYE.

Not to mention that people would be quite offended if their story was proclaimed 'worst'.



running_swift came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 08:27PM to say:

Unless they wanted the award for being known purposes... Whoever should want that be sadly sad...



ChickenIsGood came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 11:01PM to say:

I know of plenty of authors here at SIYE that write in ANs that they believe their most recent update it sthe worst possible (this includes me at times). So if we only nominated their stories it might work...



PhoenixAeternum came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 11:08PM to say:

It's one thing to say yourself that you're awful. It's another thing entirely for someone else to tell you.



Spenser Hemmingway came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 11:30PM to say:

I have to agree that we need to back off the worst category. Some of these writers are trying their best, and if it is that bad, we need to help them off-line. I cringe at a lot...and I mean a lot at some of the stories that are posted, but one of the things that we are trying to promote is writer development. This is not a writing composition course, but maybe a little bit of a practicum for some. Oh, one other thing...could we please change comedy to humor? Mark Twain or Patrick MacManus as opposed to Mr. Jerry Lewis or Jerry Seinfeld. Thanks! Eric B.



PhoenixAeternum came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 11:46PM to say:

Some writers are trying their best-- and we want to promote that. I think the implimention of a 'worst' award would make writers strive to do their most dastardly. We don't want that.

Humour sounds too... Dumbledore. Can you imagine any of the Marauders other than Lupin saying 'humour'?

MacManus... MacHand... Weird.

And what's wrong with Jerry Seinfeld?



bibliophile19 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.11 - 11:53PM to say:

If you even ask that, I know that you are beyond hope; Aristophanies is probably spinning in his grave, with people like Jerry Seinfeld being considered humor. And that's not to say that the Greeks didn't indulge in some rather crass comedy themselves, but they at least knew that there was a time and a place for it.

And, just to point out, Comedy or Humor, whichever we decide on, doesn't nessisarily have to be comedic situations exclusively. For example, look at Viridian's There's Always a Way; the narratorial voice has a distinct dry humor to it.



Spenser Hemmingway came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.12 - 12:49AM to say:

Oops! There was no slight to either Jerry. Patrick MacManus is an American humorist who has written some wonderful stories about the outdoors. His works include: They Shoot Canoes Don't They? and The Night The Bear Ate Goomba (uhm...Grandma). My only intention in differentiating between the two terms is to separate an amusing intent from a desire for a laugh track. For many it is the same thing. There was no offense intended. Eric B.



Sir Ollivander came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.12 - 08:49AM to say:

NO. - we will not come up with a "Worst Story" category. Can you see a bunch of authors deliberately trying to win such an award? We have enough of them coming through the validation stack already. Why encourage more.



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.12 - 11:36AM to say:

Eric I think you have a valid point - for the time that Mark Twain was writing, However, definitions change over the years. Currently, according to Mirriam Wesbster online there are the following definations.

Comedy is - 1 a : medieval narrative that ends happily - Dante's Divine Comedy. b : a literary work written in a comic style or treating a comic theme.
2 a : a drama of light and amusing character and typically with a happy ending. b : the genre of dramatic literature dealing with the comic or with the serious in a light or satirical manner.

While Humor is - a : that quality which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous. b : the mental faculty of discovering, expressing, or appreciating the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous. c : something that is or is designed to be comical or amusing

I think for our purposes we'll stick with 'Comedy'. I wouldn't mind being compared with 'Dante's Divine Comedy.



Ginebra Wood came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.12 - 03:50PM to say:

Ok forget about the award for the worst fic, sorry, It was only a sugestion I know that we want to raise the quality



ChickenIsGood came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.12 - 06:45PM to say:

The worst fic was a complete joke (failed miserably), I didn't want to make anyone upset and I apologize if anyone took offence.

Humour does sound Dumbledorish, I like that.



Crusader Rabbit came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.15 - 01:16PM to say:

Greetings...Crusader Rabbit here...Professor Scroll...I have serious doubts about how many people out there know who Dante' was...considering how many of them seem to have an obsession with Seinfeld...whoever he is :)...Toodles...CR



Torak came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.15 - 07:30PM to say:

I'm sure there's a special circle for those people.



Saint Paul came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.16 - 04:09AM to say:

I read Divine Comedy in High School, and was distinctly disappointed at how unfunny it was.... okay okay bad joke, sorry... *moves along*



bibliophile19 came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.16 - 09:51PM to say:

Now here's a question: can a story or, more likely, an author win the the monthly contest more than once a year? Because then they would have two spots in the yearly spot.



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.17 - 12:55AM to say:

Joseph Yes a story or author can win multiple times. The only rule at this time is that the story has to have an update in the current month.

For example - If you or your story won 6 out of the 10 months for a single category, then in Dec the field would narrow to 5 nominees instead of 10. You wouldn't be on the list 6 times, but you would be competing against less people for the annual award.

I know that the process is time consuming. We are trying to rectify the process, but please, in the meantime please send in your nominations for Feb. So far, we have received only 2 emails. You don't have to wait until the end of the month, or have a nominee for each category. As you read, if you come across a story that is well written and you believe deserves a nomination, please send an email. Throughout the month, you can nominate as many different stories as you deem worthy.



Laura Laurent came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.24 - 05:08PM to say:

I'm just curious---how're the nominations coming? I'm off right now to find some that I think are worthy, but I just wanted to say that I think this is a neat idea and I hope people are participating!



Professor Scroll came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.24 - 08:17PM to say:

Laura, Thank you. Nominations are going as expected for the first month. I'm hoping that as we go forward, more and more readers will get involved.

The biggest problem that I have seen with the nominations so far, is that the story was not submitted during the month of Feb 2006.

Please remember, you can nominate as many different stories as you would like, in as many categories. They might not make the top five, but without a nomination they don't have a chance at all.



Cassie Payne came out of the woodwork on 2006.02.25 - 05:39PM to say:

Just a suggestion since we are near the end of the month, bump this post to the top of the page? I'm sure a lot of people have forgotten about it.



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