Jan 12, 2025
To:lolitroy
Wow š Thank you so much--again, for reading it all; and also sharing your full thoughts.
I'm so glad to hear you had fun. That was my only intent and highest priority for the reader so that makes me really happy to hear. I had fun creating it, even if I was ready to never touch a keyboard ever again by the end of it. 75K in two months basically fried my brain completely--I have no idea how others can go EVEN faster than that, for .. years on end, even!
I can't agree more with not getting to know the characters beyond their archetypal quirks. I wish that I could have given Ivy and Violet in particular more of a role to do--they really just end up sitting out for like, the climaxes of two arcs. And I agree--the narration never ever gets into the heads of Ivy, Violet... or Anemone, really, besides a brief part during the cat scratch fiasco. You actually echo my own thoughts completely on that front. (Its funny because Sylvie actually turned out to be the one I liked most at the end of it all, as well.)
I ALSO agree (okay, now it just sounds like I'm agreeing with you to agree, but I swear I'm not)--about characters 'too cool' for the story they're in. I miss sincerity in storytelling as well, and cannot stand post-irony shenanigans.
Okay sounding like a broken record again but sincerely, THANK YOU for reading. Writing this has been a exhausting and rewarding experience, and I'm glad I discovered this site on a whim one day, and I'm thankful for the contest deadline that actually forced me to commit to something to the end for once. I will absolutely be sticking around HF for a long time. I never knew there was a community for anime-style stories all this time but I'm glad I found it.
