*Is Sad*

[kriadydragon]

This is not my day to be on the Internet. So I go to prep my stories for the SGA awards, I change my password and... all my friggin's stories are gone! *Grinds teeth* Seriously, WTF! times fifty. I contacted technical support but don't know when they'll get back to me. hopefully they can fix this. If not, then I guess I'm out :(.

Edit: All that ranting for nothing. The rule about being professionally published still confuses me, but all the same, what it seems to all come down to is that I can't participate. I'm self-published, yes, but its with a professional company so... *shrugs* I'm playing it safe.

But a huge thanks to those who nominated my stories :D

Comments

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

Oh that's too bad. :( It seems like self-publishing shouldn't disqualify you. *confused*

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

*Shrugs* I don't know. I read something more detailed on that particular rule and it seems to come down to being published, period. I'm still confused, myself, but decided to just play it safe and back out.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

You deserve having your stories nominated.

It is just too bad Sheppard always suffers so much
in the endeavor
ROFL
PS: and same applies to Obsessed1
:P

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

His suffering is our joy, poor guy *pats him*:D

[wildcat88.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's too bad! *pouts for you*

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Eh, I'm okay with it. It's nice just to be nominated :D But I'm going to so ticked - beyond words - if it turns out I was eligible and I'd just misread the rules.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh darn, that sucks. You do GREAT SGA fic!

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Like I said to Widlcat, I'm cool with it and just happy to be nominated :D.

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Oh no. I'm sure one of the mods will be getting back with you. I hope you're able to join in. I think nominations in themselves are just plain awesome. Hopefully you'll find out soon an if not..maybe share what people submitted for you?

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

I am happy just to be nominated :D Although a part of me does hope one of the mods comes back to me saying "self-publication doesn't count, you're in." On the other hand - especially with the "ego issues" (as I've been calling them) that I've been having lately, I see this as a good thing. I need to get back into fanfic being fun, and not seeing it as a reflection of me as a writer.

[titan5.livejournal.com]

That's ashamed - I wouldn't think self-published would count. You so deserve to be in it. Look at it this way, though - at least you got nominated. Some of us are just never quite good enough.

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

*Shrugs* I don't know, so just went with playing it safe rather than swamp the mods with more questions. I am a little sad, but not majorly so (though I will be ticked - mostly at myself - if it were possible to participate after all.)

I really need to start nominating stuff in this thing. You have quite a few stories that I think would have been (should have been) nominated.

[titan5.livejournal.com]

I can understand playing it safe - but it's still too bad. Your stuff is sooooo very good.

And thanks. I had hoped Going Home might be good enough for something, but apparently not. It all comes back to facing the fact that I just don't have whatever it takes to ever get nominated for anything, but I'll get over it after a few days of feeling sorry for myself. I always do. But that doesn't change the fact that you guys deserve the nominations that you got. I would wish you good luck, but I guess that won't help in this situation. Maybe you can find out if the self publishing thing counts before next year, cause you know you'll get more nominations then.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Don't see what one has to do with the other?

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

friendshipper explains it way better, but the gist of it is that the SGA Awards are so that ameteur writers can have their moment in the sun. Published writers aren't ameteurs, they're professionals. Yeah, crappy explanation, I know, but it's late and my brain's trying to shut down. All in all, I really don't mind (about the awards, not my brain shutting down ;)).

I will mind if I misinterpreted the rule, but didn't ask for clarification for reasons that'll take too long to explain.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Well,

I have no way of knowing who is professional (most people don't) or not, it should go by the story.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Well you get my vote :) Take it as a compliment.