Feb-03-2011, 03:40 PM (UTC)
I'm really liking these SoLaD short stories. I don't usually like short stories.... I like to really get to know characters and then read all about them.
The Carrie Vaughn story was ok but I sort of lost interest a bit toward the end!
Coincidentally the next story was by 'MLN Hanover', which turns out to be a pseduonym for DANIEL ABRAHAM, who is writing the 'scripts' (as GRRM terms it) for the comic adaptation of ASOIAF mentioned in Albertosaurus' thread.
I really liked it. I think I do like first person POV stories, but so many of them are just a straightforward unloading of facts about the persons back history (some of the stories in SoLaD being cases in point)....... I guess it is tough to write a short story and include all the necessary information without doing this, but I think that's what makes a really well crafted story.
I love stories where everything is hints and clues and you have to work it all out.
Although.... sometimes it's all TOO obscure..... eg the Neil Gaiman story...... I must admit I don't get what the heck happened? Maybe I should read it again... it may just click! (or not!)
The Carrie Vaughn story was ok but I sort of lost interest a bit toward the end!
Coincidentally the next story was by 'MLN Hanover', which turns out to be a pseduonym for DANIEL ABRAHAM, who is writing the 'scripts' (as GRRM terms it) for the comic adaptation of ASOIAF mentioned in Albertosaurus' thread.
I really liked it. I think I do like first person POV stories, but so many of them are just a straightforward unloading of facts about the persons back history (some of the stories in SoLaD being cases in point)....... I guess it is tough to write a short story and include all the necessary information without doing this, but I think that's what makes a really well crafted story.
I love stories where everything is hints and clues and you have to work it all out.
Although.... sometimes it's all TOO obscure..... eg the Neil Gaiman story...... I must admit I don't get what the heck happened? Maybe I should read it again... it may just click! (or not!)