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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1884669" data-attributes="member: 2">I knew Don Diego was too good to be true! It was that damn rictus of a smile. I love how you showed his speech - it is a wonderful description of how someone with that sort of a gift might sound. The way you communicated images is one of your strengths. I swear, I smelled the town - and that's not something most authors can make me do. Thank you.And I'd say you're being kind in your above comment. I like my story too, but it's kind of a risk. There's no telling how the judges will take it. There's no action at all. Alsih2o tends to include action shots in his images when he's judging, but Mythago doesn't, and I thought I might be able to create a strong and lean story if I didn't try to add any. This ended up at 2000 words, a lot less bloated than most of my prose, but I don't think that's intrinsically a weakness. I hope not, at least.I've never written a piece that's just conversation before and it's making me nervous -- but the voices and the characters are very strong in my head. They kept telling me what to write. I based them on old PCs from my game, sixty years later, and to be honest I had Paul Simon's "Old Friends" running through my mind the whole time I was typing. The last story I wrote I had to struggle on, but not with this one. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.For me the key to getting started was Sialia's mer-donkey. It totally steers a story in a particular direction... no horror or sci-fi with that bad boy in there. That made me want to do a conversation with a transmuter. I thought of the mer-ass/morass misunderstanding, got ambushed by Abbott and Costello, and knew I had found a good way to start.  I agonized a lot about how to steer it from there, but in the end I just plopped my characters down on the bench and let them talk to one another. My grub use is a little weak, but I'm hoping the judges won't mind too much because the squirrel is decently integrated.Now for the waiting! Good luck to both of us.</blockquote>

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