THANK you for making me not the only one thinking this week's entries seemed rushed! I'm not saying they lacked in quality in the writing itself, (there were some terrific pieces) but considering this was the finals week, I thought it was anticlimactic as hell. And I felt the same way about selkie_queen's entry - it really stood out to me as magnificent, which is why I wasn't merely rooting for it to win; to me it was a foregone conclusion. ("Arsenal without a chance?" "No, it's just that the world is going to end." Hullo, Ford Prefect my love! Where did you suddenly come from? Haven't swooned over your awesomeness in ages. *giggles*)
Now, about your pieces of advice (which I'm incredibly grateful for because they provide the distance a writer doesn't instantly have from their writing) You might be right about the spacing. I never really get the idea of putting paragraphs in situations other than a perspective change, a flashback, a location change or anything of the kind, since a story is one continuous thing, but putting a few
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("Arsenal without a chance?" "No, it's just that the world is going to end." Hullo, Ford Prefect my love! Where did you suddenly come from? Haven't swooned over your awesomeness in ages. *giggles*)
Now, about your pieces of advice (which I'm incredibly grateful for because they provide the distance a writer doesn't instantly have from their writing) You might be right about the spacing. I never really get the idea of putting paragraphs in situations other than a perspective change, a flashback, a location change or anything of the kind, since a story is one continuous thing, but putting a few ( ... )
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