Thanks for the quick answer once again and thanks for the positive answer for the "friend". It seems I wasn't really clear in my answer cause I don't think you ramble too much (it can make the style funnier(?) or slighter (?) and that could be good sometimes) or that there's too many facts (I think, depending of the kind of story you want to write it's a good thing to give the reader enough facts (not too much that's bad, it's true, but not enough is also bad). I think you write good story with good characters and good plot, they're not perfect (you're human, right?) but they're pretty good from a general point of view. To make some good criticism I need to re-read them with this perspective but I must say I don't like to make a criticism of the stories I read cause it's the feeling I've got when I read that's important for me and after all your stories I've got good feelings (for some more than for others, but always good!). One of the reasons I stay a lurker for one year and a half is when I like a story I won't "dissect" it or talk about it (I just say "read it, it's good and I think you'll like it" to my friends), I'll just put it in my "coups de coeur" on AOL to read it again later (the more times I read a story, the more it is that I find it good) and read others stories from the same author. And, when I really like the author (that's your case!), I look around the stories and others authors this person like and go to read about it (I find you on Nikerym 'Ksherea LJ and I find broken_moons on yours) and I read their LJ not only their stories (that's also your case!). Now it's my turn to ramble, I'll stop there and I promise to find one way to explain myself better on the difference between "storyteller" and writer : it's not a difference of quality, but more of the path taken by the story with words and sentences, the use of it (really hard to explain, I'm not so good to express my thoughts). Okay now I'm leaving for the serious stuff ;) : I've got a lot of stories to read and so little time! (one life is not enough, I hope after my death I'll be a ghost able to turn pages and read on the net!)
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Date: 2007-05-26 07:20 pm (UTC)It seems I wasn't really clear in my answer cause I don't think you ramble too much (it can make the style funnier(?) or slighter (?) and that could be good sometimes) or that there's too many facts (I think, depending of the kind of story you want to write it's a good thing to give the reader enough facts (not too much that's bad, it's true, but not enough is also bad).
I think you write good story with good characters and good plot, they're not perfect (you're human, right?) but they're pretty good from a general point of view. To make some good criticism I need to re-read them with this perspective but I must say I don't like to make a criticism of the stories I read cause it's the feeling I've got when I read that's important for me and after all your stories I've got good feelings (for some more than for others, but always good!).
One of the reasons I stay a lurker for one year and a half is when I like a story I won't "dissect" it or talk about it (I just say "read it, it's good and I think you'll like it" to my friends), I'll just put it in my "coups de coeur" on AOL to read it again later (the more times I read a story, the more it is that I find it good) and read others stories from the same author. And, when I really like the author (that's your case!), I look around the stories and others authors this person like and go to read about it (I find you on Nikerym 'Ksherea LJ and I find broken_moons on yours) and I read their LJ not only their stories (that's also your case!).
Now it's my turn to ramble, I'll stop there and I promise to find one way to explain myself better on the difference between "storyteller" and writer : it's not a difference of quality, but more of the path taken by the story with words and sentences, the use of it (really hard to explain, I'm not so good to express my thoughts).
Okay now I'm leaving for the serious stuff ;) : I've got a lot of stories to read and so little time! (one life is not enough, I hope after my death I'll be a ghost able to turn pages and read on the net!)