I'm looking at you Raine.
I was feeling pretty damn good about my Samhain free Xmas short story. Felt I did a little bit of alright.
Then Raine and I exchanged crits.
She was going on and on about how she didn't care for her story, yaddahyaddah. 'Don't go to a lot of trouble' with the crit. yakkety, smakety.
whatevs.
So I open up the doc, thinking maybe there's a scene where more emotion needs to be layered in, or motivation needs to be clarified/strengthened, etc., because those are the sorts of things that make me unsatisfied with my own work.
By the second page I forgot I was critting. Raine had me from the word go. What a fun story and done so creatively; I laughed out loud several times at something said/described on each page. At one point the kid came into the room and asked what I was smiling at and I realized I'd been wearing a big goofy smile for awhile.
And dang, her version of Santa can jiggle my bells any ole day of the week. ;-)
This is definitely a story you want to check out when Samhain releases the stories.
I'm really looking forward to reading all the free stories when they're released.
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Oh you need to stop, lol.
You were RIGHT. You should've felt damn good about your short story, it absolutely ROCKED!
(I think I liked Furio as much as you liked Santa). ;)
Thanks for the great feedback, and for reading.
And we'll always share Blitzen. :D
LOL@Blitzen. I meant to comment on that in your ms on Blitzen's popularlity.
Seriously, Raine I haven't been that entertained reading in a long time.
And thank you for a kick ass crit.
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