Comments on: Family Values http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/family-values/ A couple hundred words of blather every day Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:34:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Pam Phillips http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/family-values/#comment-497 Pam Phillips Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:07:34 +0000 http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-497 Hi Sara, It sticks in my mind because of the world-building. Thanks for dropping by. Hi Sara,

It sticks in my mind because of the world-building. Thanks for dropping by.

]]> By: Sara Genge http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/family-values/#comment-494 Sara Genge Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:49:54 +0000 http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-494 Hi, Thanks for listening and blogging about my story! I'll keep in mind the thing about the pause for a nap: I feel you may have something there. It certainly amounts to a relaxation of tension, which I felt was needed at that point but which I knew had pros and cons. Anyway, thanks for caring enough to blog. Hi,

Thanks for listening and blogging about my story! I’ll keep in mind the thing about the pause for a nap: I feel you may have something there. It certainly amounts to a relaxation of tension, which I felt was needed at that point but which I knew had pros and cons. Anyway, thanks for caring enough to blog.

]]> By: Pam Phillips http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/family-values/#comment-470 Pam Phillips Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:04:54 +0000 http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-470 Hi Steve! It's stories like that which keep me coming back to Escape Pod. Hi Steve!

It’s stories like that which keep me coming back to Escape Pod.

]]> By: Steve Eley http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/family-values/#comment-468 Steve Eley Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:18:15 +0000 http://writingeveryday.wordpress.com/?p=795#comment-468 I think that's a fair criticism of the story. I was taken enough by the setting and by the incredibly smooth exposition on that setting -- Genge never stops just to tell you how the aliens' anatomy works or how it affects their culture, but by the end you feel like you know all about it anyway -- to purchase it. Intuitively, I have to say that you're quite possibly onto something, that a stronger plot with more external events and no pauses might have made the story <i>great</i>. But I'll settle for thought-provoking and worth a blog post. >8-> I think that’s a fair criticism of the story. I was taken enough by the setting and by the incredibly smooth exposition on that setting — Genge never stops just to tell you how the aliens’ anatomy works or how it affects their culture, but by the end you feel like you know all about it anyway — to purchase it. Intuitively, I have to say that you’re quite possibly onto something, that a stronger plot with more external events and no pauses might have made the story great. But I’ll settle for thought-provoking and worth a blog post. >8->

]]>