And right away I am struck by something you do so well, which I have noticed before but not mentioned, I think.
“What happened?” he asks. He wants to know what caused the trouble: mechanical failure, human error, the violence of the storm, deliberate sabotage or any combination of those things.
Sapphire shakes her head. She thinks that’s irrelevant here.
The juxtaposition of characters. This is a good thing for the usual reasons: the characters & story are more dynamic, etc - but somehow it seems to carry more weight with S&S, because the question of 'what are they?' is something that is explored multiple times and purposefully remains a mystery - and yet they don't lack for character. So when I'm reading and you tell me what they're doing and how that makes them them, it carries a great deal of weight and, hmm, makes the world that much sharper for me. And you present it with an economy of words which gives it even more weight. Really great stuff
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This is such a wonderful comment that I don't even know how to reply! So I shall say thank you, and I'm glad you enjoyed my morbid fic. :-)
And that I love this description of Elements: because the question of 'what are they?' is something that is explored multiple times and purposefully remains a mystery - and yet they don't lack for character. That is very true - I cannot think of any other non-human characters that are quite like them.
The thing about your S&S fic is that always I feel absolutely 100% safe going into it, which is such a joy.
And this is such a compliment - I'm glad you feel that way. (I do rpeat myself sometimes, but mainly in the Element Prompt fics, I hope, because they're mostly short and experimental, and then I might explore one thing in several of them, or expanded into a proper fic.)
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And right away I am struck by something you do so well, which I have noticed before but not mentioned, I think.
“What happened?” he asks. He wants to know what caused the trouble: mechanical failure, human error, the violence of the storm, deliberate sabotage or any combination of those things.
Sapphire shakes her head. She thinks that’s irrelevant here.
The juxtaposition of characters. This is a good thing for the usual reasons: the characters & story are more dynamic, etc - but somehow it seems to carry more weight with S&S, because the question of 'what are they?' is something that is explored multiple times and purposefully remains a mystery - and yet they don't lack for character. So when I'm reading and you tell me what they're doing and how that makes them them, it carries a great deal of weight and, hmm, makes the world that much sharper for me. And you present it with an economy of words which gives it even more weight. Really great stuff ( ... )
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And that I love this description of Elements: because the question of 'what are they?' is something that is explored multiple times and purposefully remains a mystery - and yet they don't lack for character. That is very true - I cannot think of any other non-human characters that are quite like them.
The thing about your S&S fic is that always I feel absolutely 100% safe going into it, which is such a joy.
And this is such a compliment - I'm glad you feel that way. (I do rpeat myself sometimes, but mainly in the Element Prompt fics, I hope, because they're mostly short and experimental, and then I might explore one thing in several of them, or expanded into a proper fic.)
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