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Post by arcalian on Aug 3, 2011 22:24:49 GMT -5
Please, tell us what you thought of this issue!
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Trevor
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Post by Trevor on Aug 22, 2011 22:13:08 GMT -5
Okay so here is my first real critical review. This is coming from a non-writer perspective. There was a part where the story repeated itself to catch the reader up with the entrance of a major character (no spoiler here  ). I wish this could have been handled differently. I felt like I was wasting time rereading the same thing over again, and was catching myself from trying to skip over it. I don't feel as a reader you should want to skip over an area. From a reader's perspective, maybe if the scene was written from a slightly different perspective? I don't know... I know what the intention of it was, but it not go over well for me as a reader. I did not feel like it added anything additional or new. Okay that was the critical or bad side. Now for the good side. Susan is very talented and this is written very well otherwise. I thought many parts had tension and intensity, and definitely left you wanting more. This story is in modern time, and has very few western elements, but they are definitely there. I am a big Western fan (just watched Appaloosa last night with the wife!). In any case other than the small section that I commented on (and it was only a few paragraphs if I remember right), I thought it was a great read overall! |
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Susan Hillwig
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Post by Susan Hillwig on Aug 24, 2011 12:49:18 GMT -5
Sorry that scene didn't work for you, Trevor. When I realized that I was going to be repeating part of a scene from #2, I decided to make that a device throughout the issue: repeating scenes from slightly different angles. Hence "A Matter of Perspective". It was a risk, it lengthened the issue past the point Jay likes (15 pages as opposed to his usual 12-page capper), and it would have probably worked better if this was an actual comic as opposed to prose-only (there's tricks you can do with visuals that don't come off so well in words). You don't learn unless you try, though, so I tried it and most likely won't do that particular trick again unless I can do it better.
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). I wish this could have been handled differently. I felt like I was wasting time rereading the same thing over again, and was catching myself from trying to skip over it. I don't feel as a reader you should want to skip over an area. 