Dear scfrankles, thank you so much for this beautiful comment and for the recommendation you wrote on your LJ page, I can't tell you how happy I am that you enjoyed this story. Seeing that you enjoyed it really lifted me up and had me feeling delightfully buoyant! I was very thrilled when I was matched with you and I hoped that I knew you well enough to write a gift you would like.
It was a pleasure to work on it, getting down a few sentences every night and gradually developing a sense of what fit where and how it should come together. One of the things I particularly enjoy about this format of writing is that it invites you to try to make each individual piece as meaningful as possible but also to think about how they can play off of each other and carry on the longer story that the earlier pieces have started. It's very satisfying to work on. And I agree with you that one of the great things about microfiction is the ability to set up a situation, theme, or expectation and then comment on it, and I find that putting those one word titles up front and then showing your readers which way you have spun them is particularly fun in that respect.
Thanks so much for telling me which individual pieces were particular stand-outs for you, that's so fun to hear! And as it happens you picked many of my personal favorites, too. I'm especially glad that you liked the ones about Mary. I've always thought it was beautiful that Watson, the famous 'conductor of light' and 'stormy petrel,' referred to the woman he loved as a lighthouse who stood as a beacon to birdlike, storm-tossed souls.
Ha, yes, also glad you noticed the pun in the title! That line of Watson's from The Copper Beeches is possibly my favorite bit of his snark in the whole canon (though the opening of Musgrave Ritual and Valley of Fear give it stiff competition). I can just hear his wry tones in my head saying from which he emerged, in no very sweet temper, to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings -- so I was very gleeful about having a chance to steal it :)
Thanks again for your lovely and generous feedback, and for the inspiration to write this piece. It has made me happy, and I'm very glad you were happy with it, too <3 <3
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Date: 2015-06-02 12:33 am (UTC)It was a pleasure to work on it, getting down a few sentences every night and gradually developing a sense of what fit where and how it should come together. One of the things I particularly enjoy about this format of writing is that it invites you to try to make each individual piece as meaningful as possible but also to think about how they can play off of each other and carry on the longer story that the earlier pieces have started. It's very satisfying to work on. And I agree with you that one of the great things about microfiction is the ability to set up a situation, theme, or expectation and then comment on it, and I find that putting those one word titles up front and then showing your readers which way you have spun them is particularly fun in that respect.
Thanks so much for telling me which individual pieces were particular stand-outs for you, that's so fun to hear! And as it happens you picked many of my personal favorites, too. I'm especially glad that you liked the ones about Mary. I've always thought it was beautiful that Watson, the famous 'conductor of light' and 'stormy petrel,' referred to the woman he loved as a lighthouse who stood as a beacon to birdlike, storm-tossed souls.
Ha, yes, also glad you noticed the pun in the title! That line of Watson's from The Copper Beeches is possibly my favorite bit of his snark in the whole canon (though the opening of Musgrave Ritual and Valley of Fear give it stiff competition). I can just hear his wry tones in my head saying from which he emerged, in no very sweet temper, to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings -- so I was very gleeful about having a chance to steal it :)
Thanks again for your lovely and generous feedback, and for the inspiration to write this piece. It has made me happy, and I'm very glad you were happy with it, too <3 <3