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aldersprig* What sort of settings do you enjoy reading when I write them? What sort do you wish I'd write more of?
* what length stories do you enjoy reading when I write them?
* What plots do you enjoy/wish I wrote more of?
* What characters do you enjoy?
Feedback bribe: 50 words in your choice of setting if you answer at least two of these with more than one-word answers! :-)
* what length stories do you enjoy reading when I write them?
* What plots do you enjoy/wish I wrote more of?
* What characters do you enjoy?
Feedback bribe: 50 words in your choice of setting if you answer at least two of these with more than one-word answers! :-)
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Date: 2012-04-09 09:37 pm (UTC)- I like your science fiction a lot, and sword & sorcery-type stuff. On a specific wish note, I'd like to see more of Stranded, with strand-working. More magic in general, in your fantasy settings that have it.
- I like all of them, but the super-short ones of only like 200 words are my least favorite. I'm not particularly fond of 300-500 word updates to ongoing stories.
- The kind that have endings? >.> *ahem* While that statement is true, I imagine it is not especially new or useful information.
I would like to see more that don't revolve around an interpersonal relationship. (Not that I dislike those; it just feels as though you write a disproportionate number of them. I like your other types of stories as well, but they seem rather rare.)
- Changing this from just which I enjoy, to which I enjoy more than most, in no more significant order than that which I thought of them.
Porter, Girey, Rin, Ahouva, the Smiths, Ruan-and-Johias.
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Date: 2012-04-10 12:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 10:36 pm (UTC)I like your stories that are shorter so that it is a complete story, I think... you write so many universes that it is very hard for me to keep up with what is happening in each one, when they are continued stories. (But, that is just personal of me and my memory problems. That doesn't mean the other kind of stories are bad, it's just my reading style.)
50 words in a choice of setting... well, after what I said, what about a world with no humans?
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Date: 2012-04-10 12:16 am (UTC)Story length.. Hmm. Well, I don't think there is any length that is wrong. Its more about what suits the particular story really. I'd like more stories with endings, or at least end of "chapters", but that can't be an easy thing to do I'm sure!
What plots? I don't think I have a good answer for that. I enjoy the established characters having relationship issue plots, and the action type plots and the quirky humorous stuff too. I suppose that's just about everything though!
My favorite character list.. Oh boy, that's a long list. All of the main Addergoole cast, Arundel, Cyanara, Cira, Luke, Porter, Pyry... I think I'll stop before I just write a pointlessly long list.
And I'm not above accepting bribes, so maybe write something in the Vas world for me?
My answer...
Date: 2012-04-10 07:16 am (UTC)I like the settings with a strong twist that are different from the usual. Unicorn/Factory combines two motifs that aren't typically seen together. Bug Invasion takes a small-scale, personal look at a storyline that's usually told from a large-scale perspective.
>>* what length stories do you enjoy reading when I write them?<<
I'm flexible with lengths, although I do prefer whole stories to fragments.
>>* What plots do you enjoy/wish I wrote more of?<<
I like all different kinds of plots. If you can surprise me, that's extra shiny.
>>* What characters do you enjoy?<<
I am most attracted to characters who are different from the standard fare, and will request such when I think of it. Asexual characters. Blacks or lesbians who live to the end of the story. Non-Christians. Poor people. Women in traditionally male jobs or roles. That sort of thing.
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Date: 2012-04-10 07:31 am (UTC)Unicorn/Factory similarly, though the idea is a lot stranger. By contrast, with some settings (Vas World, Facets of Dusk) I don't see what you're getting at, the stories feel more like fragments to me. (Do you actually have more of a story/world in your head for the last two than for the first three? I'm curious if my gut feeling lines up with reality.)
*blink* I like Stranded more for the characters than for the setting. Which is completely different from the Aunt Family, where I like the concept of the setting, but can hardly keep the different Aunts apart in my head, apart from the steampunkish scientist. (I'm bad with names, and there are sooo many.)
I'm not sure I would have thought about it without reading Inventrix' comment first, but I'd like to second the "moar magic" bit. The bit about "more not focusing on relationships", too, including the caveat.
Also chalk up one more person who prefers stories that could stand alone to cut-off, some-hundred-words chunks of a bigger story.
Characters. um. Autumn and Weylan/Waylen? Also Porter.
Extra: If I had to pick one favourite story, it'd be Of Clay And Salt. http://aldersprig.dreamwidth.org/176874.html
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Date: 2012-04-10 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-10 12:25 pm (UTC)I'm getting a lot of "prefer longer bits," which I can totally understand, is completely different from how I like to read, and is immensely frustrating but good to know.
Thank you!
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Date: 2012-04-10 10:22 am (UTC)I'd love to see more of Genevieve, the space accountant, as well as more of Dragons Next Door, the Aunt Family, and the Unicorn Factory. I'm a huge fan of Addergoole, so I enjoy it when you write about the different students at the school. To be honest I'll read pretty much anything you write, because I love you. :D
Story length is something I don't really have an opinion on, because I don't really notice it. I just enjoy reading the stories.
I love character interactions, which is great because you seem to write a lot of them, but I'd love to see more of the magic in the fantasy worlds - and it seems like a few people have said that now.
Characters is difficult, because I love most of them in different ways. I have less of a connection with the Stranded characters and Rin and Girey, but apart from that I couldn't really pick single characters.
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Date: 2012-04-10 01:05 pm (UTC)what length stories do you enjoy reading when I write them? I prioritise shorter pieces in terms of choosing what to read first, but if I'm enjoying the fic it honestly doesn't matter.
What plots do you enjoy/wish I wrote more of? I like the Dragons Next Door in particular and I loved Mr Ting's Shop. I like the exploring of non-traditional gender roles and norms, and the idea of people being caught up in things that are outside their usual realms of understanding.
What characters do you enjoy? Jin and Junie, but everyone in Dragons really, and all the Winter/Autumn/Spring/Summer siblings. The Aunt, who is single and without children and her companion That Damn Cat. Everyone in the Mr Ting story; they all had a distinct personality. And the more throwaway characters sometimes stand out like Mrs Bao.
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Date: 2012-04-11 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-11 12:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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