Status: Closed & almost done 🥳
Welcome to the WHO Mini Awards, a safe space for all authors, particularly smaller ones. Everyone gets reviews and prizes, even if you don't win! All genres, including fanfics, are allowed, though please keep in mind...
Keep in mind it might take me 5-10 minutes to copy paste all the YouTube playlist links in here, so if you read this chapter really early, please wait a good ten minutes before asking where the links are since I'm probably just pasting them in still.
There will be three placements and two honorable mentions, so five overall winners. The reviews for non-placements will be after the honorable mentions and labeled as "REVIEWS".
Questions are welcome, though rudeness and disrespect are not tolerated. My reviews are honest but not harsh, and I spent a lot of time on your books, so please be respectful. Not even nice, just respectful.
If I make a suggestion you do not want to use, simply ignore it. You don't need to go out of your way to tell me how much you dislike and disagree with the suggestion. That's a slap in the face to all the time I spent making it. I won't be offended if you don't use the suggestion and/or ignore it, but blatantly disrespecting it is rude. I get it; every writer has their own style, and my suggestions won't work for everyone and that's 100% okay, but please just ignore them if you don't want to use them instead of arguing with me about them.
For an additional prize of 10 votes on any story of your choosing, guess the word count of the reviews (intro + outro not included)! Anyone can participate, whether you're a participant of this category or not! Even those not signed up for the contest can make a guess.
Leave your guesses here --->
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Winners will be announced in the next results.
Speaking of, the next categories I will be judging are experimental, rock, and AOTY. More to come soon. Likely AOTY first since I did a lot for that category already.
3rd Place
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Album Cohesion: 8.5/10. This section is split into two parts: the pacing leading into the story, and the overall pacing within the narrative (which makes up most of this category). When it comes to the introduction to the story, you don't dilly dally and instead get into it very quickly with an author's note and an awards page prior to chapter 1. The author's note makes sense to put before chapter 1, so that works well. The awards works fine but could also be moved to the end of the book, but that's just depending on personal preference. I personally prefer it when the awards are listed at the end, but again, that's personal preference and nothing I'd take off points for. Either way, the leading up to chapter one is done well with not too many chapters prior to chapter 1, so I think that's good. You don't waste our time by having a million aesthetics and notes and intros and all that, you just get the story started, so full credit for that part of the pacing.
