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
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Of course, because the Best-loved Sons series has expanded so much over the years, it's also sort of tough for new readers to find their way in at times, so I'm glad this drabble set still made sense.
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- Erulisse (one L)
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But he can be put to good use here - not everybody has the sort of complicated, agonized relationship to a dual-faith tradition that Andrahar has. And while that complexity makes Andrahar fun to write, it's also fun to write someone who's happy in his own tradition and doesn't need to agonize over it the way Andrahar does.
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The set-up of these scenes is really wonderful. It's very rare to find a drabble series where each individual drabble continues straight off from the one previous to it. I've tried it on occasion, but usually found it too difficult. So props to you for pulling it off, and for pulling it off so effectively.
And as always, your examination of the Haradrim and their culture is beautiful.
Thanks for sharing, Dwim!
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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 ( ... )
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