Whaat, I can't believe I didn't comment on this earlier. Oops! Remedying that now.
You are, as always, a master of dialogue, and all their little exchanges are made of pure love. You do a lovely job of setting the feel of each segment -- you describe action well enough to see it but not so much that we get bored... oh, all that stuff that basically sums to: YOU ARE A GREAT WRITER.
I'm going to go against the tide of popular opinion here and say that actually, the reverse chronological order didn't do anything for me >_<. I think it was just that the first bit had such a -- a mood, a tone, to it, that when I realised it was going backwards, I was a bit disappointed. Because the stuff that comes AFTER that first moment was what I thought would be interesting.
Hm... it's like fanfic to the first story! And this is why, while fanfic is a lovely way to explore extra parts of your world and your characters, it's not the story itself.
Or something. =D
P.S. This is so random. OK, I remember when I was reading Skirt for Sunday Evening, you had a couple of interludes where you described the story in terms of the Quest and the Hero, etc -- I was wondering if you got that from a book or a class or something? Because I would like to read some stuff on plot.
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You are, as always, a master of dialogue, and all their little exchanges are made of pure love. You do a lovely job of setting the feel of each segment -- you describe action well enough to see it but not so much that we get bored... oh, all that stuff that basically sums to: YOU ARE A GREAT WRITER.
I'm going to go against the tide of popular opinion here and say that actually, the reverse chronological order didn't do anything for me >_<. I think it was just that the first bit had such a -- a mood, a tone, to it, that when I realised it was going backwards, I was a bit disappointed. Because the stuff that comes AFTER that first moment was what I thought would be interesting.
Hm... it's like fanfic to the first story! And this is why, while fanfic is a lovely way to explore extra parts of your world and your characters, it's not the story itself.
Or something. =D
P.S. This is so random. OK, I remember when I was reading Skirt for Sunday Evening, you had a couple of interludes where you described the story in terms of the Quest and the Hero, etc -- I was wondering if you got that from a book or a class or something? Because I would like to read some stuff on plot.