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Toot your own horn!

I copied this from Caroaimezoe (on Tumblr) because she asked me to spread the word. She wishes many people to take part in this. Here's what this is all about!

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For the fifth year in a row, TMNT Discourse opens up our comment section on DeviantArt so that you can Toot Your Own Horn!

This year there are two fanfiction award competitions.  We do not have dates for the TMNT Universal Fanfiction Competition yet, but as soon as we do, we’ll let you know.  

The second competition is the resurrected Adult Fanfiction Awards! The Nomination window for the AFFA opens Friday, March 20th.  See the launch post here AFFA

This is the time of year where you get the chance to recognize your favorite fandom writers/creators/artists.  The starting point for that is of course the nominating process.

You may think “Oh that’s easy!  I’ve read so many great stories and seen such great art that I can nominate a lot of things.”  

But then when you’re faced with the nomination ballot, you freeze like a deer in headlights.  Why?  Because you can’t remember all you’ve consumed over the past year.  You can’t remember which of your favorite writers created a certain story, or which artist drew that comic you enjoyed.

That’s the purpose of “Toot Your Own Horn”.  Yes, we want fandom creators to self-promote.  You should, you deserve the recognition for your hard work.  There is nothing wrong with saying “Hey, I was here. I left my mark.”

But that isn’t the only reason to make a list of your work.  It helps those of us who are filling out our nomination ballots to remember the things we’ve consumed over the past year.  It helps us to find the things we’ve loved.  By listing your eligible works, we’ll know what can be nominated.  Too often the awards administrators have to ‘void’ a nomination form because it included something that wasn’t eligible.

It also helps us to make nominations in categories we might not be familiar with.  Separating your works into categories for us helps us to make the proper selections, for example - does the story belong in the General Category or is it a Mature Category type of work?

Please take a few minutes and make a list for us of your qualifying works for the past year.  Works that qualify must have been started or updated in 2019.  They don’t have to be completed works, so long as some part of it was posted in 2019.

In addition, works that placed either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in any prior year competition do not qualify.  If the work won a contest or competition on DA but not one of the fandom wide comps, then it still qualifies.

If you have a Tumblr account you can post your list there as well, just use the tag ‘tmnttoothorn19’ so that people can find you.

PLEASE list all of your eligible works, not just the Mature works.  The Toot Your Own Horn will cover both competitions and you wouldn’t want anything to be left out - you worked hard on those creations!
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