![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sentinel_thurs challenge # 67 : comments.
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
|
2
|
|||||
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
6
|
7 |
8
|
9
|
|
10
|
11
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
|
17
|
18
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
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.
.
Re: Wow!
""
EEEEP!! Of course I had to check it out *g*
Man - I think that discussion has to be one of the most freaky, terrifying, and flattering things I've ever been through. :-) thanks for the heads up, and I'm so glad I came in on the end of it. Gonna take a pass on commenting list-wise, but the fact that they felt the story warranted discussion in the first place? that alone set me up. *g*
anyway, thanks again for your kind words!
Re: Wow!
Right. *g* The difficult thing is, to decide if it's the story that wants more or if it's *you* (as in: the author) who's not able to get to the point efficiently. *g* I have to correct this, that's not difficult, that's very, very difficult. :-) And Audra's story is a perfect example on how the story wanted *it's* rightful lenght and refused to back down. *g* I think, cutting down on the words here would have made the story less good as it was and would have stolen a lot of the impact, so Audra (*wriggles fingers* "Hi, Audra :-)) apparently mastered this difficult task. :-)
>If I remember correctly, the community started with a smallish word limit so that people wouldn't be intimidated. <
Right, I can remember that too. I also remember vividly how I failed the word-count right from the start and wasn't able to cut enough to make it fit. So, Audra, it's fine to have the intention to keep to the word-limit, but if the story insists on being longer, I don't think someone will seriously complain. After all, prompting stories *is* the main-agenda of Sentinel Thursday. *G*
>It's been rather quiet lately, but last night Alyjude posted a glowing comment on your story.>
And beat me to it. *g*
Pat
:-)