Dearest Mags, It is seldom that I have had the great privilege to say to anyone how proud I am of them but this is truly such an occasion. I have known and read your work for years, even having beta'd some of your earliest efforts.
But what you have written here is an altogether different creature. You have truly come into your own as a writer. Yes, using the characters from another source to be sure, but bringing to the story a clarity and depth of feeling that the original lacks. This story in particular is a tale of deeply felt human emotion and the unfolding of a relationship over an arc of time and it is seamless.
Everything about this story rings true. The magic is alive and the characters are richly coloured and three dimensional. The pace,scene-setting and uncanny sense of atmosphere are flawless. The story is imaginative and satisfying as ever and in the end no one can doubt what remains. This is a love story in the very truest sense in that it is love tested and true. Seldom is it captured as beautifully as you've done here!
You have become a truly great writer! I can't thank you enough for sharing your enormous talents with us all.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2011-06-04 06:02 am (UTC)It is seldom that I have had the great privilege to say to anyone how proud I am of them but this is truly such an occasion. I have known and read your work for years, even having beta'd some of your earliest efforts.
But what you have written here is an altogether different creature. You have truly come into your own as a writer. Yes, using the characters from another source to be sure, but bringing to the story a clarity and depth of feeling that the original lacks. This story in particular is a tale of deeply felt human emotion and the unfolding of a relationship over an arc of time and it is seamless.
Everything about this story rings true. The magic is alive and the characters are richly coloured and three dimensional. The pace,scene-setting and uncanny sense of atmosphere are flawless. The story is imaginative and satisfying as ever and in the end no one can doubt what remains. This is a love story in the very truest sense in that it is love tested and true. Seldom is it captured as beautifully as you've done here!
You have become a truly great writer! I can't thank you enough for sharing your enormous talents with us all.
Peace,
Bubba