Good Morning, Beautiful got a very nice review! · 6:29pm Jul 27th, 2015
What I liked about the review is that it pointed out the ways in which the story could be better and/or did not work for the reviewer. And that's a good thing. It takes work for a reviewer to do that, and it's very valuable input I can use later (not that I don't love uncritical praise. Please feel free to keep going with that!)
The other good thing about reviews is that it means someone read your story, OMG, and had thoughts about it. On a site this large, it's a big thing to have a story noticed and read. I had some thoughts about reviews of official, published work that might apply to FiMFiction too, but that's a separate blog post for another day.
I do tend to do these stories one at a time, instead of thinking of them as a huge multi-chapter work. I don't know when I'll get chances to work on them, and I need for any of my stories to have a clean, clear structure, with some sort of end in sight. Having things be open-ended--that hasn't been my dish, although I do have one in mind that will be episodic and unplanned. I promised myself that I wasn't going to do a novel-length thing like Looking Glass World again in a hurry.
Anyway, thanks so much to the reviewer!
Paul read of my stories once and it got a "Worth It" rating. You are officially a better author than I am.
3273861 Nah. I've got stories I'd consider "not exactly worth it." But "Pretty Good" is pretty good, and I feel good about it.
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I'm way more humble than you are!
Considering that we have each gotten a single story reviewed by Paul, and your story ranked higher than mine, I admit that I am not as competent an author as you are.