Review nr1 · 5:59pm Dec 20th, 2014

Review 1
Good morning/evening/ whenever you read this. It’s me, Derec with another review. Well, my first review actally… but… yeah… anyway, I gonna review
Dear Camellia by ErraticOverlord (Spoilers)

But let’s act like a professional (which I’m not) I gonna interview the writer herself first.
First of all, Erratic, Tell us. Why did you joined this site?

Erratic: Well, I joined the fandom because a friend of mine was telling me about it. He enjoyed Ask Princess Molestia and wanted context for it so he started watching the show. Many years later, I was bored one night so I started watching the show on Youtube. I kept watching it, but my heart really wasn't in it until the season 2 premiere with John DeLancie as Discord. Despite some minor flaws, I loved that two parter and quite a few episodes in season 2 and that's when I got into it more. I made a new friend from an acquaintance because we both watched the show and we found we had many things in common. It was him who told me about cupcakes and Rainbow Factory. I read them both, along with Cheerilee's garden and the A Precious Rainbow series among others. I read more and more fanfiction but it was really hard to find some I liked on the site I was using, so I asked my friend and he directed me to FIMFiction. After a while more of reading, I decided to set hand to keyboard and start writing my own stories. I made a profile, and began.

Okay, and Why did you write this particular story?
Erratic: For why I wrote Dear Camellia, there are a few answers: number one, I wrote it as part of a contest because I adore pretty much everything about contests, number two, I enjoy writing mysteries and one of the prompts for the contest was that it be a mystery, and number 3, I was thinking about my interpretation of magic in Equestria and of the beginning episode of the fourth season with the living plants so I decided to give that idea a whirl.

Thank you. And do you have any memories when you look back at the time you rote your story?
Erratic: The memories I have when writing it mostly consist of the way I was structuring the 'accidents' and any bits and pieces I'd give in between scenes. I also remember I had a deadline to finish the story - because contest - and I was a bit unhappy with the way I ended it because I was in a rush to finish it. My thoughts while reading the story, actually drifted to an episode of an anime called Soul Eater where one of the main characters, Tsubaki, is fighting an enemy who talks about the camellia flower which she was named after, bringing particular attention to the camellia's lack of scent. When thinking of a flower to be in the story, I thought one who could be generally unnoticed because it didn't smell like anything was quite fitting.

Thank you for your time
Okay, so. The short Discription

Floret is a filly attending the Canterlot School for Gifted Unicorns. Every day, she tells the camellia flower she grew out of a seed as her entrance exam about her troubles and every day after the troubles are gone. A bully pushed down the stairs. A teacher getting sick. What is going on in the school and who is the pony dealing with Floret's enemies in lethal ways?
Submission for Weekly Contests story contest #14 botany and plants.

As you can see. It starts with a little filly, called Floret. It gives you the impression of a diary. Somehow, I like it that way. It makes the story focused on Floret her part of the story, and not the crimes that occurs. Otherwise, if it was written as a detective, it could have been ‘better’. But as Erratic said. It’s a mystery story. Not a detective, and she succeeded with that. In the beginning you have no idea who’s responsible for those crimes. But the farther you get, the more you are aware of who’s responsible.
My tips for this story. I’d like to see a sequel, or another view from this. I really like the story line. It is a mystery with a little touch of detective. The fact that a flower is such a ‘big thing’ in this story keeps me reading it. Although it’s just a 2500 words story, it’s not that rushed, but just, less. It may be a bit longer. A bit more information about the investigation would be nice.

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