. Beautiful. Powerful. Engrossing. Heartwrenching. Hopeful. Just -- lovely.
I really enjoyed this, even though I ached for Blair's and Jim's pain. Excellent story, and you told it wonderfully well.
I'll chime in with Mouse -- absolutely no reason to stick to the 1000-word limit if the story demands more. If I remember correctly, the community started with a smallish word limit so that people wouldn't be intimidated. But it's not meant to be a straightjacket -- if the challenge prompts a 15,000-word fic, or a 30,000-word fic, we'll just enjoy the ride. Please, don't try to force your other stories into an artificial constraint; you'll be frustrated and your readers will be the poorer for it.
Now, are you a member of the Saficdic mailing list? It's a list strictly for discussing Sentinel slash fic. It's been rather quiet lately, but last night Alyjude posted a glowing comment on your story. One of her comments was, she wished you had written more. That's started quite a discussion on the pros and cons of short stories versus adding more. But almost every response holds your story up as a glowing example of how good a short story can be. If you'd like to kibbitz, the subscription info is --
>>>send an age statement and statement of intent (know that saficdic is an adults-only discussion list for The Sentinel, and contains primarily male/male "slash" talk) to: saficdic_admin@populli.net <<<
Wow!
Beautiful. Powerful. Engrossing. Heartwrenching. Hopeful. Just -- lovely.
I really enjoyed this, even though I ached for Blair's and Jim's pain. Excellent story, and you told it wonderfully well.
I'll chime in with Mouse -- absolutely no reason to stick to the 1000-word limit if the story demands more. If I remember correctly, the community started with a smallish word limit so that people wouldn't be intimidated. But it's not meant to be a straightjacket -- if the challenge prompts a 15,000-word fic, or a 30,000-word fic, we'll just enjoy the ride. Please, don't try to force your other stories into an artificial constraint; you'll be frustrated and your readers will be the poorer for it.
Now, are you a member of the Saficdic mailing list? It's a list strictly for discussing Sentinel slash fic. It's been rather quiet lately, but last night Alyjude posted a glowing comment on your story. One of her comments was, she wished you had written more. That's started quite a discussion on the pros and cons of short stories versus adding more. But almost every response holds your story up as a glowing example of how good a short story can be. If you'd like to kibbitz, the subscription info is --
>>>send an age statement and statement of intent (know that saficdic is an adults-only discussion list for The Sentinel, and contains primarily male/male "slash" talk) to:
saficdic_admin@populli.net <<<
Then, you can catch up on the earlier messages at the archive --
http://lists.squidge.org/wws/arc/saficdic
Anyway, thanks for sharing your vision with us.
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