[Orig '12] Wish 02-03

Jul 06, 2012 23:53

More of this, while I have a moment. To be honest, Wish is very hard to summarize which is why you get a blurb about whatever character is next on the chopping block. My icons are character pics I drew in 2004.

Summary: All Sabél Najya wants is to inherit the Diamond Flake Estate and grow orchards of Xakkiya's Devotion. One fateful day, he ( Read more... )

original: wish; '12 draft, original: all

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entitys July 7 2012, 18:16:29 UTC
I want to slap the h e double hockey sticks out of Lyanne

*laughs* Never heard it put that way before. But yeah, LyAnne seems to inspire that feeling in everyone. Usually, I write about good, kind, understanding mother figures, but a neurotic one is . . . interesting. That 'priestess' was just LyAnne performing the 'Thank You Rites'. She's . . . she's - yeah. I have no excuse for her. More about Sabel and Xakkiya to be revealed and all that. It's kind of complicated. And Micah, well, I tend to torture those I like the most. Poor kid.

Constructively, you're saying to break up chapters to be a bit smaller and limit perspective changes to two if there must be more than one, right? Okay, that's doable. Chapters are relatively new to this story and I was just going by word count and related content. But if you're saying I'm putting the breaks in the wrong spot and it's screwing with coherency and cohesiveness, then that's definitely something to look at.

(Don't worry about overstepping bounds; I really appreciate this comment. You pointed out a possible flaw in the design, and you gave your reasons for that opinion - to me, that is the right way to do a critique. So. Thank you!)

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