Nominations for 2018 Rose & Bay Award: Art

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Nominations are now CLOSED for the Art category of the Rose and Bay Awards.

Nominations are now OPEN for the Art category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes exceptional artists. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Art category, "Nature Adores Diversity" by capri0mni is not eligible.

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Nominations for 2018 Rose & Bay Award: Fiction

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Nominations are now CLOSED for the Fiction category of the Rose and Bay Awards.

Nominations are now OPEN for the Fiction category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes exceptional storytellers. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Fiction category, FIYAH Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction by Justina Ireland, Troy L. Wiggins, et al. is not eligible.

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Nominations for 2018 Rose & Bay Award: Poetry

[ysabetwordsmith]

Nominations are now OPEN for the Poetry category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes superlative writing in the field of poetry. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment on this post.

NOTE: The 2017 winner in Poetry, "The Purpose of Power" by ysabetwordsmith is not eligible for nomination in 2018.

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Nominations for the 2018 Rose & Bay Award: Webcomic

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Webcomic category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes exceptional artists. It honors all the comics and other sequential art. It's just called "Webcomics" because most crowdfunded comics use that venue. Paper comics funded collectively should go here too. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Webcomic category, the 2017 winner "Oglaf" (NSFW) by Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne is not eligible.

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Nominations for the 2018 Rose and Bay Award: Other Project

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Other Project category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes diverse media. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Other Project category, the 2017 winner "Letter to a Super-Hurrah" by alatefeline is not eligible.

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Nominations for 2018 Rose and Bay Award: Patron

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Nominations are now OPEN for the Patron category of the Rose & Bay Award. This award honors excellence in creative crowdfunding, and this category recognizes the people who support projects financially among other ways. Everyone is encouraged to make nominations and, later, to vote. Icons and banners are available to help spread the word. Please read the complete details below, and then make your nominations in a comment under this post.

Note: A project or person which wins one year is not eligible in the same category for the next year. After that, it is eligible again. In the Patron category, the 2017 winner technoshaman, patron of the Poetry Fishbowl by ysabetwordsmith is not eligible.

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Rose & Bay Awards

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The Rose & Bay Awards celebrate excellence in cyberfunded creativity. Nominations are now open in the categories of:

Art (0 nominations)
Fiction (0 nominations)
Poetry (0 nominations)
Webcomic (0 nominations)
Other Project (0 nominations)
Patron (0 nominations)

You can help by nominating your favorite crowdfunded works and supporters from 2017. \o/

The Many Worlds

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Last year was... complicated. I don't know what else to say, to be honest, because writing outside of work wasn't something I did much of, and I'm still working out my relationship with writing now. Although it's always been a massive part of my life I lost my connection to it, so actually sitting down to write was often more like pulling teeth than something I enjoyed. Part of that was circumstances, and those are likely to change this year, but I know that one of my issues is finding time for me to do the things I want to do - like writing. So one of the things I'm doing is making it so I have that time. If that means dropping one of the other balls I have in the air then I will, because I feel like I'm losing part of me.

That was a lot more personal that I was expecting to get. What I am here to say is that I'm going back to the Many Worlds. I've missed them, but a lesson I learnt last year is that I put too much pressure on myself to do everything. I dropped certain things, because of that pressure, and those were things I didn't want to drop. I'm not going to have any sort of posting strategy. I've not even got any real plan for what it is I want to be writing. Instead I'm going to let go of the urge to add more stress to my life, stress I truly don't need, so I'm just going to let it happen as it will. I do plan on posting more often. There are some things I'm in the middle of I will get back to when it feels right. For now I'm going to leave it at that, because that's what I need to do for me.

I'm looking forward to it, for the first time in a long time. What I am hoping is that I'll regain that part of me I lost last year.