Reviews for "The King Has Come Unto His Halls"
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Sulriel
Joined: 07 Jan 2004
Reviews: 327
Location: Imladris (or maybe Texas ...)
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Mon Mar 11, 2013 9:14 am
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Very emotional and engaging.
IMO, it takes a special combination of talent and skill to put so much into these kinds of shorts ... or, I should say ... as a fellow writer I know it's what you're putting in, ... but as a reader - the difference is what the reader is taking home. As a reader, I'm overflowing by the time I'm finished with this. very very well done. *happy sigh* |
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| Author's replied on Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:35 am |
At the risk of making myself sound too much like Tolkien, it's because I don't just dream up the stories I write. I think a lot about the characters I write most often, and so I have a collection of incidents and references that I know happened to them in my "verse" but I've never written out. And more than that I know their characters (how I think of their personalities and morals or lack thereof) so certain reactions just seem natural. It means there's a lot of background that never gets worked in explicitly, and that gives the story a certain depth I think, like LOTR seemed authentic because it was contextualized by the Silmarillion - even when that book wasn't published.
It's also why I write so frustratingly slowly, and why I am incapable of writing the longer fic so many other people do. I am in awe of them (and I include you here) - it is a skill I don't possess and (try as I might) can't seem to develop. I can give a slice of a life that is built on an untold story, but actually tell that full story? Nyet.
I'm glad you liked reading this, in any case! |
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