Riders now has a rage review · 10:13pm Aug 15th, 2014
It can be found here.
Now before I get into my reaction to this, let me just say that this is part of the reason why I haven't updated my stories in a while, though I admit it was also because I'm an extremely busy, excessively lazy, rarely inspired, easily distracted motherfucker. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and in the worst possible way. I can't do stuff until I know I can do it well. As such, I wanted to hold off on updates until I got a review.
In my opinion, the review was...fair. Actually, I think in some places it gave me a bit too much credit. Here's what I got out of it.
1) I'm really good at writing scenery/description porn.
2) I'm pretty good at setting the atmosphere for dialogue.
3) I'm horrible with writing the actual dialogue (all the good dialogue was at least partially written by Vedavyasa).
4) I can't write Rarity for shit. That OOC moment Palm Pallete comments on? My doing. Vedavyasa handled most of her characterization.
5) I'm not all that great at considering the full political ramifications of events, nor am I good at writing a narrative with strong political aspects to it.
So now I can't help but wonder: am I sticking to all the wrong points by writing Riders? It seems to me that it focuses on all the weaker aspects of my writing.