Dearest SB - I am extraordinarily dilatory in responding to this, and I apologize for that. You can't imagine how much I appreciated your comment: because it was (and, of course, remains) from you, whose feedback and self I value greatly; and because you wrote it so early in the process, at a time when I was utterly convinced that only the recipient and I wanted this story or would ever read it. Mille grazie for all of that.
DAVID. My God. I don't want even to like the man, and yet I get sucked into his spiky judgmental aura every time I dip another toe into the show. (Doesn't hurt that I have rather a thing for Peter Outerbridge...) Part of it's competence kink, and part of it's my distressing but undeniable predilection for falling for damaged characters. But it's also just ... DAVID.
I'm delighted you feel I got the voices at least partly right. Catching the rhythms of a character's speech matters more to me than anything else when I write (second place = writing reasonably hot sex - anyone still wondering why I suck at plot?), but I wasn't at all sure I'd taken these canons in enough to pull that off here. lamentables and I share a thing for literal voices as well - definitely one of my offline kinks.
The use of the physical - you spotted that. Of course you did. That was one of the organizing principles of the story, actually. Each piece of the story centered around a different sense, with a second sense playing, erm, second fiddle.
DAVID. My God. I don't want even to like the man, and yet I get sucked into his spiky judgmental aura every time I dip another toe into the show. (Doesn't hurt that I have rather a thing for Peter Outerbridge...) Part of it's competence kink, and part of it's my distressing but undeniable predilection for falling for damaged characters. But it's also just ... DAVID.
I'm delighted you feel I got the voices at least partly right. Catching the rhythms of a character's speech matters more to me than anything else when I write (second place = writing reasonably hot sex - anyone still wondering why I suck at plot?), but I wasn't at all sure I'd taken these canons in enough to pull that off here. lamentables and I share a thing for literal voices as well - definitely one of my offline kinks.
The use of the physical - you spotted that. Of course you did. That was one of the organizing principles of the story, actually. Each piece of the story centered around a different sense, with a second sense playing, erm, second fiddle.
*hugs you very much back* You rock.
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