this is exactly what I've wanted to see done with Carrie.
I'm so relieved to hear that. It did, of course, take me awhile to *listen* to you and Te telling me that I should set Millerfucktard aside and like or dislike Carrie on her own merits, but if I'm told something enough times, eventually it does sink in. q: And I couldn't have pulled this off at all if you hadn't led by example and written Carrie yourself.
I wish I could've written you a *longer* story with her, but once I worked out what I needed to put in and then wrote the first draft, it had everything I needed to say and weighed in at a mere 253 words. Then, there didn't seem to be anything I could add that wouldn't just have diminished the impact of what was already there. So instead I trimmed out a bit of unnecessarily verbose phrasing to get it to 250, because somehow short-shorts seem more respectable when they have round-numbered word counts.
You're absolutely right about there being all sorts of *potential* in the way Carrie was introduced, potential that her creator never realised because he's apparently incapable of doing anything worthwhile or respectful with a Robin. It felt really good to have her moving to realise that potential.
you rock like a rocking thing full of rocks which is playing rock'n'roll.
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Date: 2005-02-07 04:28 am (UTC)this is exactly what I've wanted to see done with Carrie.
I'm so relieved to hear that. It did, of course, take me awhile to *listen* to you and Te telling me that I should set Millerfucktard aside and like or dislike Carrie on her own merits, but if I'm told something enough times, eventually it does sink in. q: And I couldn't have pulled this off at all if you hadn't led by example and written Carrie yourself.
I wish I could've written you a *longer* story with her, but once I worked out what I needed to put in and then wrote the first draft, it had everything I needed to say and weighed in at a mere 253 words. Then, there didn't seem to be anything I could add that wouldn't just have diminished the impact of what was already there. So instead I trimmed out a bit of unnecessarily verbose phrasing to get it to 250, because somehow short-shorts seem more respectable when they have round-numbered word counts.
You're absolutely right about there being all sorts of *potential* in the way Carrie was introduced, potential that her creator never realised because he's apparently incapable of doing anything worthwhile or respectful with a Robin. It felt really good to have her moving to realise that potential.
you rock like a rocking thing full of rocks which is playing rock'n'roll.
Eeheeheehee, you're awfully cute. (: