Hi Greenwillow and list peeps! I know it's a little early but I got to thinking today and I had some ideas for next year's fanfiction awards (assuming your doing them next year too).
You know how regular award shows like you see on tv only pertain to the past year. Instead of seeing the same fics nominated over and over again each year, how about only nominate fics that were written in the past year, starting from after nominations of this year are over and ending before nominations begin for the next year. This would make the awards more interesting, encourage people to write more fics, and it encourages people to read more fics. Someone could try to compile a list of all of the fics they can find that were written during that time period with links and ask the lists and ppl surfing the site if there are any missing fics. Then when nominating, this list can be used to make all of the nominations. Also a fic cannot be nominated unless it is complete(unless u want to have a best incomplete fic category). Since there are more fics being written now then there were when the first awards started, this could work. The categories could be changed a bit. For example, a best classic fic category could be added so that an older fic could be included. Another fun category that I have thought of is worst fic but for this category you can only nominate yourself(this also doesn't have to be a new fic). Mandy(i'm on a roll today with this posting thing)
