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Featured story of the month for December - Yesterday's Blue Skies by Just Marina
marina:
--- Quote from: MonkeyAbu on December 05, 2007, 07:31:15 AM ---Well, I just wanted to say I took everyone's advice and read through the prologue before clocking out from working. I'm intrigued. I actually enjoy reading sci-fi fics as long as they are written well and you have done a wonderful job so far Marina. I do enjoy the simplicity in your use of dialogue, and how so far at least, you have leaned less on the detail aspect of paragraphs. Can't wait to read more!
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Thanks for giving it a try.
Since you are the second person mentioning the amount of dialogue I thought this would be a good moment to confess that I would have never imagined I would be getting good reviews for not being better at English lol Because I think in some chapters that's the main explanation for them being like 80% dialogue. Not that I don't like to write dialogues. In fact when writing original stories in my mother tongue I write A LOT of dialogue, I've written stories that are like 95% dialogue and I've received some really nice reviews/compliments on them them but usually I like to put a tad more detail in the descriptions (just a tiny bit more, not too much because detailed paragraphs full of description are just not my style). But when writing in English I just opted to go with more dialogues because that's the way the story comes to my head and writing the description would mean having to 'translate' the things I'm seeing in my head and since I hate to translate things in my stories and prefer just to write directly in English I end up with excess of dialogue lol
honey:
It's ture, I do notice quite a bit of "mistakes" like that throughout the chapters, but they are all very clearly mistakes because you're writing in a foreign language and it never hinders the story. It's always close enough that I know what you're trying to say and I can always understand what's going on. So I simply tell myself she's doing great considering... and I overlook the mistakes that are throughout the chapters.
There are some fanfic writers out there who are doing their best and yet they simply don't know enough about the language to write a coherent sentence. I can't read those stories. But yours has never bothered me, and I think you'll find most of us on AC are the same way. We understand there is a language barrier and if the story is good, we can overlook it. A for effort though, because unless you count asking for some cheese and a coke in French, or saying a few really bad words in Spanish, I can't speak a lick of a different language.
mare:
Maria I give you so much credit for not writing in your first language. I know how hard you are on yourself when it comes to editing yourself and picking at your mistakes but like Kelly said, some people who speak and write English as their first language don't do half as well as you do! lol
Here's another question for you
When you first came up with this idea, did you always know how you were going to end it? Or have you changed your mind a few times?
Do your reviews ever change your mind about how to write something?
When are we going to get an update?
marina:
--- Quote from: mare on December 15, 2007, 03:53:51 PM ---Maria I give you so much credit for not writing in your first language. I know how hard you are on yourself when it comes to editing yourself and picking at your mistakes but like Kelly said, some people who speak and write English as their first language don't do half as well as you do! lol
Here's another question for you
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Thanks mare :-*
Okay here are my answers once again ;)
When you first came up with this idea, did you always know how you were going to end it? Or have you changed your mind a few times?
I had no idea how I was going to end this story, considering that I didn't even know too much about the story at first, except that the boys had powers, it was the future and they were living in a spaceship hehe. It took me a while to come up with a way of ending the story and so far I haven't changed my mind about how I'm going to do it but I'm still not sure this is the 'awesome' ending I want, so no matter that I'm almost sure I'm not going to change that much of it, I'm still trying to make some little details work the right way (in my head, sadly not on paper yet).
Do your reviews ever change your mind about how to write something?
Nope...oh wait except for one thing. Usually I don't change things because of the reviews but for this story people were mentioning how much they liked the 'tiny BSBs' parts so I tried to add more memories of them as kids in the last chapters and I might keep doing it if I ever get another good idea for those.
When are we going to get an update?
Awww I wish I knew and I really wish I could say soon. 2008 could be a good year to finish this story (hopefully).
mare:
I think you should update soon. And yay to the tiny guys flashbacks. I really hope that somewhere down the line you will write your little prequel to this story with all the tiny guys. lol
I am finally on vacation now :) YAY!!
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