seattle rain - 1/1

Apr 01, 2010 02:58

seattle rain: a character study. (gen)
3 443 words. pg.
◦ with prompted inspiration from kpopficwank

life goes on, even after natural disasters.

you move or you drown )

fandom: 2pm, pairing: 2pm gen, centric: jaebum, writing, writing: prompted

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callherblondie April 2 2010, 06:36:49 UTC
I'm so pleased that my feedback made you happy because it was the least I could do for all the happiness and enjoyment you gave me by writing this story, writing these people, and doing so in a way that was such an honor to all of them. It's stories like this that make me grateful to have found kpop fandom and fanfic; seriously, what a pleasure and thank you so much for sharing it.

that was exactly what i'd been trying to show, and i'd wracked my brains all night in fear that it wouldn't be obvious enough.
I think that's the true emotional power of this story, the restraint and lack of obvious dramatic reaching that some written work can extend to that turns it into dramatis vulgaris. It's the exploration of weighty, deep, human themes we can all relate to, but doing so in a manner that allows the reader to piece it together for himself/herself. Whether intentionally or not (it doesn't really matter either way), what you've effectively done with this story by not beating us over the head with these important dramatic themes and not spelling it out laboriously for us is that you've complimented your reading audience with the assumption that we get it and we're smart enough to get it and figure it all out for ourselves, that whatever we take away from it is ours and you, as the writer, aren't going to tell us how it is or how to feel. By writing this with a subtle hand, you've imbued it with the power of realism and truth, and it's like a sledgehammer to the cerebral cortex so that I just sat back after I finished reading it and thought 'Yes. Yes, this is life, this is how it is. It hurts and it's real and the beauty is in the pain and the hope for something good just around the next corner.'

i love that this brought you back to that initial spark of interest, that memory of when your fascination first started.
It was pretty awesome, the feeling you gave me in this story about all of them, especially Jaebum. It was like looking up and seeing someone doing something mundane like, idk, washing dishes or channel-surfing -- someone familiar to me whom I knew I loved, but glancing up and seeing them for the millionth time and having it feel like the very first glance and just getting this rush of pure joy and adoration as I remember all the reasons why I love that person. Haha, it was like the fic form of falling in love again at first sight for the second time and for the same group of people. You can't ask for a better gift than that, stories don't get much better than that. :D

Seriously, brava! This is incredible, you should feel immensely proud of yourself for producing this kind of writing -- it appeals to and engages both the emotional preverbal brain and also the higher-functioning intellectual side of the brain and that's why it works on every level both basic and complex, and why it's so satisfying, such a pleasure to read. &hearts

Even though the fandom is currently in disarray, please keep writing 2PM when the inspiration strikes, you really have a talent and gift for it. Kudos, kudos, kudos!

(And, yes, I do write fic, mostly SHINee and very very sparsely and sporadically, lol. Oh, kpop, what you do to me! ;D)

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florentineeggs April 3 2010, 05:49:06 UTC
um you're welcome a lot :') thank you tons for the super thoughtful feedback! ♥

i feel like you're giving me too much credit now omg. i. geez i'm just so speechless and happy and flattered and i'm not quite sure how to respond anymore other than with thirty thousand thank yous and you make me so so so happys. ♥♥ seriously, thank you.

i think you made me feel prouder of this than anything else! :) i had no idea that my writing had that sort of effect on the reader, but i'm so glad that it does manage to appeal to so many levels for you ♥

i definitely will now omg :') i look forward to another one of your comments when that time comes!

(don't worry, you'll find that i'm not a very frequent writer either :') life gets in the way, it happens to everyone ♥)

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