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Ok, I create this thread to give you a place to tell how you enjoied my solo thread. Wait for the second part, it's the one important.
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I'm enjoying it, as I enjoyed that great ending to both the Monte Carlo subplot and the ongoing Ladnikia subplot. This is among your finest writing. Keep writing stuff like this, and I'll have to vote you Best Writer for next year's Robbie Awards... ![[wink]](images/icons/wink.gif)
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Euro, I enjoyed the first post through... thorogh... I enjoyed the whole damn thing.
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I wonder what happened to that English/Spanish dictionary I kept near the computer...
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Thanks guys, I have a lot of fun writing, right now.
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Dude... that was the best post ever.
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I liked the beggining and the ending way more than the dream, though. It would have been completely perfect if you had kept the stuff in the dream less explicit, in my opinion.
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I liked it. One of the best "breaking the fourth wall" posts seen yet, very much like Grant Morrison's ANIMAL MAN run, yet unique enough written in your own way. I remember you mentioning you were going to do something like this, but I really didn't imagine exactly something like this. It was good -- very descriptive -- and it kept me wanting to read more.
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The opening of this story reminded me of a film that I saw recently called Winged Migration which is all footage of birds migrating and is full of fantastic camera work.
Returning to your story, I was intrigued by the way your economy of the prose (the sentences very streamlined and to the point, broken up like the narrative in a comic book) contrasts with the very opulent, descriptive language that you sometimes use. It's a strange mix.
I'm aware that there is a plot and I rather like the way it is told and unfolds in between the descriptive passages. As a reader of fiction I've never been that interested in plots - I'm more interested in the images a piece of writing produces and I enjoyed your story on that level. It's a solid piece of work with depth and character and there's a consistancy and even-ness to the writing.
The eternal champion - I'm no great reader of science fiction but is that a Michael Morcock concept?
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I've got to agree, this is the best thing I've seen you write yet. The characterization of Ed, the scene with the "Eurostar family," the peek into your life,. . .all put together really well. I enjoyed it very much.
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Originally posted by Southpaw:
The opening of this story reminded me of a film that I saw recently called Winged Migration which is all footage of birds migrating and is full of fantastic camera work.
Returning to your story, I was intrigued by the way your economy of the prose (the sentences very streamlined and to the point, broken up like the narrative in a comic book) contrasts with the very opulent, descriptive language that you sometimes use. It's a strange mix.
I'm aware that there is a plot and I rather like the way it is told and unfolds in between the descriptive passages. As a reader of fiction I've never been that interested in plots - I'm more interested in the images a piece of writing produces and I enjoyed your story on that level. It's a solid piece of work with depth and character and there's a consistancy and even-ness to the writing.
The eternal champion - I'm no great reader of science fiction but is that a Michael Morcock concept?
Yes, the Eternal Champion is a name and concept by Moorcook, I use it because I love a few of his creation, especially Elric, but while for him is a concept that ties all of his created heroes, in my case ties Edulcore to the heroes of the past (from mythology and legends). Something I will explore mostly in the HR stories, but that will appear also in my solo thread.
About the quality of writings, I am flattered by your compliments. Just, I whish it could be a sign of my creativity, instead that the only way I am able to write, being Italian and nearly completely self-taught in your language.
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TTT, Grimm, Mxy, I am glad you liked it, and thanks for your praise.
Mxy, very acute observation about the dream, because, soon after I wrote it and reread it, I had your same impression... and was thorn between discard it (in fact, the point I was interested into showing was just Euro meeting me, not all my previous creations) and rewrote it, having Euro finding by himself the computer with all the stories about the HR heroes, and maybe some plot ideas for future stories.
Then , I choose to keep it, because it showed what I wrote about in the post: that sometime stories wrote themselves.
When I started writing the post, I have absolute no idea that I would put the old Eurostars coming to give advice like Ghosts of Gone Christmastes...
It is indeed too didascalic, but I can live with it. :)
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The dream was my favorite part, though. Largely because I didn't expect it from you. Also because I do think you achieved a high level of characterization.
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