The best of the best?

[GeorgeMichael]

Here's the place where you can vote for what you think are the best stories out there on YWO right now. (only ones below count.)

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Equus Cruorem- Carraka
Secret Behind the Mirrors- GothicWaterBabe
Suffer Not- Crocolyle
Rag-End- Evader - Rafael Domination
IMP Protector- Carraka
High School Weekend- GeorgeMichael
The Lost Prince- Shadow
The Winnower- Andy
Me, My Past, and My Blood-Stained Sword- Zaphikel
Tara (tar-u) -Tncowgirl
The World In The Satin Bag- Shaun
Flowers for the Wake- Zuzy
It's All In The Family- GeorgeMichael
A Night With Napoleon- Crocolyle

those are the stories out there that you can choose from. (only stories out there:))

Nominate what you think is deserving for the categories below based on the ones you've read then once nominations are in (Five or Six for each category) we'll all vote and we'll have our winners.

Interested? Yes? No? Well we'll see I guess.

Nominations so far are:

Best Main Character:
1. Tom, Suffer Not- Crocolyle

Best plot:

1. The Lost Prince- Shadow
2. RagEnd- Evader- Rafael Domination


Best ensemble:
1. The Winnower- Andy


Most Original story:
1. RagEnd- Evader- Rafael Domination
2. Suffer Not- Crocolyle
3. Equus Cruorem- Carraka


Favorite Character:
1. Jake, High School Weekend- GeorgeMichael
2. Martin, The Lost Prince- Shadow
3. Kuraime, Me, My Past, and My Blood-Stained Sword- Zaphikel

Most Believable Character:
1. Jake, High School Weekend- GeorgeMichael


Best overall Novel so far:
1. The World In The Satin Bag- Shaun
2. The Winnower- Andy
3. Equus Cruorem- Carraka

Most Potential to be Great:
1. Me, My Past, and My Blood-Stained Sword


Poetry Nominations

Best Free Verse Poem

Best Use of Rhyme

Best Use of Meter

Best Overall Poem

Best Narrative Poem

Best Lyrical Poem

Best Metaphor

Best Imagery




let's see if anyone is interested. :)

[Zuzy]

So my play doesn't count? :-p I don't have an actual story posted!

[GeorgeMichael]

Oh, I didn't look at scripts, of course they count. Let me go and add them hold on...

[Nyx]

Should Rain really count?:blush: it was only experimental and I don't think anybody actually liked it...
Anyways I still have to post something better on here...I just haven't had time to write anything worth reading lately.

[Zaphkiel]

Let's see... of the stories I've read so far, here are my nominations:

Best Plot: Shadow's "Lost Prince"

Favorite Character: GeorgeMichael's "Jake", from Highschool Weekend

Original Story: Raffy's Rag-End- Evader

Best Ensemble: Andy's, The Winnower

[GeorgeMichael]

I got nominated for something???

Here are my nominations :)

Best Main Character: Tom- Suffer Not

Best plot: RagEnd- Evader

Most Original story: Suffer Not

Favorite Character: Martin- The Lost Prince

Most Potential to be Great: Me, My Past, and My Blood-Stained Sword


This will probably also lead to people reading more stories on here.

I'm glad this is getting nominations. :)

[Rafael Domination]

Favorite Character: Kuraime, from Zaphikel's 'Me, My Past, and My Blood-Stained Sword'

Most Believable Character: GeorgeMichael's "Jake", 'from Highschool Weekend'

Best overall Novel: The World in the Satin Bag, by Shaun

Most Original story: Equus Cruorem- Carraka

Wooooo! I'm Hyped! :D

[GeorgeMichael]

Ok, nominations tallied. Hurray it's picking up. Once nominations are over then each member who would like to have a voice will PM me their votes for who they think should win each category. Majority rules and when I have closed the polls I will count the votes and announce the winners.

Not now of course, I'm just explaining how this will work.

More Nominations Needed!!!

P.S On nominating yourself, it's allowed but think about it...do you really want to?


P.S.S Perhaps if the Admins allow it then the winners could have an Award posted on their profile... hmm... I'll ask when Andy or Shaun get on.

[Shaun]

Umm, well I can only vote on what I've actually read--which isn't too much actually :(. So, umm.
Overall Novel: The Winnower by Andy (since it's the only novel I've started reading, though I think this category is sort of pointless because most people haven't read any full novel available, and The Winnower technically isn't finish, at least not on the site)
Best Plot: RagEnd-Evader

But I haven't read enough works to make any other mildly effective suggestions.

[Imelda]

Overall novel: Equus Cruorem.

Sorry Andrew. :s

[Shadow]

Man, I've only read Shaun and Zaphy's novels. I am so terrible... thanks for nominating me, those who did, though! :) Best plot, eh? I didn't think I'd be getting that nomination, if any.

[Zuzy]

only one person has read my play. XD I should make more of an effort to read things... I'm just so busy!

[Carraka]

I've read quite a bit, but I'm not critting anything. o.O

I love this idea, but I probably won't nominate/vote, because in my mind this requires me to say, "Person A writes better than Person B". This isn't what the thread is about, but I -- can't -- do it --

However, thank you for all nominations, and um, maybe I will nominate after all. Quota first. Quota first.

[GeorgeMichael]

Ok new thing, from now on you can PM me your nominations if you want to be anonymous.


And there's also no reason to nominate something that's already been nominated, we're not voting yet so you didn't have to apologize to Andy Meldy because his story was already nominated :)

P.S The maximum nominations is five for a category, three for ensemble because it's a harder category to come up nominations with.

Sound good? Ok, let's get those nominations in so we can begin voting, will your story be one of the proud, the few, the marines? :P

[GeorgeMichael]

... :( we need more nominations

[Shadow]

Maybe we should have a sort of Newsletter that shows recommended reads throughout the site and those that need a crit (in the sense that no one's posted any crits for their work :P).

[Shaun]

Andy and I have talked about something like that. I think until we get membership up things such as newsletters/blogs/etc. will be on hold, but we are certainly considering them.

[Ichigo]

Why is this only for stories? There has been some good poems around here, not a lot but some good ones.

[Crocolyle]

We could have as categories stuff like:

Best Free Verse Poem

Best Use of Rhyme

Best Use of Meter

Best Overall Poem

Best Narrative Poem

Best Lyrical Poem

Best Metaphor

Best Imagery

Or something... I don't know... I think Shadow's idea is also really good.

[Shaun]

Nominate poems then. I didn't create this though, but you are welcome to have votes for best poems, by all means

[Shadow]

Or something... I don't know... I think Shadow's idea is also really good.

Technically, since Andy and Shaun thought of it first, it's there idea. But great minds think alike. :D :P

[GeorgeMichael]

Ok, I'll put those categories for Poems up as well :) Same rules apply to them

[Shadow]

...Are you sure you posted in the right thread, Zaph?

[Zaphkiel]

Sorry!!! I'll go do it again.

[Shadow]

Silly Zaph! :P