Let there be light Tolkien_Weekly challenge: In A Different Light

[dwimordene_2011]

Title: In A Different Light
Author: Dwimordene
Summary: On loving the enemy among friends and family.
Characters/Pairing: Brand, Esteven, OFC
Rating: Teen
Warnings: Mature concepts
Book/Source: LOTR, Best-loved Sons 'verse
Disclaimer: I'm neither JRRT nor making money off this. Isabeau, I hope you'll like these - Merry Christmas, slightly belated. Thanks

Comments

[dwimordene_2011]

Hi Alphien - Thanks for your comments!

I think you did an excellent job of keeping things clear even as you pulled a lot of material from your other writing.

Good! Glad that worked. I think it's easier to write a series fic that makes sense to readers unfamiliar with the rest of the series if it's topically oriented. Then the topic facilitates characterization, instead of the reverse. If the idea gains clarity or new meaning only because of pre-existing characterization, then it's much harder to make that story accessible.

It's very rare to find a drabble series where each individual drabble continues straight off from the one previous to it

Yeah, you've got competing writing goals working against each other, I think. Drabbles have to be compact enough to stand alone, which tends towards episodic story-telling whose individual episodes are easier to connect thematically than in any other way. And if for some reason your drabbles do come right off each other, that often means you really have a short story that you're breaking up with title-headings. Depending upon how incomplete each "chapter" of the story then feels, it may make more sense to just write a short story and not separate things artificially. I was surprised that In A Different Light was so cooperative in this regard, although with that last drabble, I was thinking for a time that either it would have to go, or else that I might be better off chucking the drabbles and just converting them to a ficlet/short story.

[alphien]

Excellent points!