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This is a continuation of my blogging here at WdC
#1067055 added March 28, 2024 at 12:06am
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20240328 Quills 2023
Quills 2023

So… apparently I did okay in the Quill awards for 2023. Now, I do understand the Quills are a site-only thing and that things need to be nominated by readers, but last year (2022) was the first time I had been nominated for anything (I was one of 2 nominated for a category, so didn’t win anything). Now, in my 14th year, I was nominated 8 times and… won?

I was half-inclined to withdraw any works nominated last year after I was told by someone they had nominated me, but thought it wouldn’t matter, as I won’t win; my writing style does not normally resonate with people on WdC. I might be widely published, but that does not mean everyone likes my stuff, and judging by the (very, very few) reviews I get here, my work is “fine.”

Oh, and it is interesting that what I normally write – spec fic in all its guises (horror, fantasy, scifi) – was not where I was nominated. I know nominations depend completely upon someone bothering to do the nominating, but that I found something odd.

Anyway, here’s how I went:

Best Flash Fiction
         winner: "AudreyOpen in new Window.

Best Blog
         winner: "Writing BlogOpen in new Window.

Best Overall Fiction
         winner: "AudreyOpen in new Window.

Experience Genre
         hon mention: "Writing BlogOpen in new Window.

Comedy/Satire Genre
         finalist: "A Quokka Visit... Or St. Nicholas?Open in new Window.

Holiday Genre
         winner: "A Quokka Visit... Or St. Nicholas?Open in new Window.

So, yeah, I think I did okay. I don’t agree with some of the things I won – I think my current Writing Blog, this one, which I started in January, is far better than the one that won, for example – and because of the seemingly random way things are nominated, I think the best thing I wrote on WdC in 2023 was not even nominated, but that is the way of awards, I suppose.

Thanks to those who did nominate me, thanks to the judges, and especially thanks to Lilli who held the whole thing together.


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