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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3359590" data-attributes="member: 2810">Tadk:[sblock]I love the way you use language; the metaphors and descriptions are amazing.  Its just sometimes when I'm reading your stuff, I feel like I'm missing something; there's a glimpse of something moving in the corner of my eye, but when I look it's not there.  I find it a little frustrating because (as you can tell by what I write) I'm much more straightforward.   But I suspect that's what you intend, so consider it a success on your part and failure on mine, in terms of imagination at least.I do like that you write the way you want, though.  More so than any other Ceramic DM you've got a unique style and voice, and I'm glad to read your stuff, even if it does make me feel slow somtimes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> [/sblock]Berandor:[sblock]I got up this morning and discarded the ending I wrote last night, which was along the lines of what you'd described.  I just felt that it took the focus away from the doctor and felt a little awkward.  I also copped out on the 24-petrifcation thing; I'd originally written in a piece about how they used the placenta and amniotic fluid to devise a cure, but it came across as rushed and unbelievable.  Also, a little gross.The penguin pic is a total cop-out, but the rest of the pictures came together so neatly (I think) that they pretty much dictated the story.  I'm hopeful that the rest of the pictures are used in such an inextricable way as to carry the one weak one.  We shall see!Thanks, as always, for your comments.  You and I seem in tune on these types of stories, so if you don't think something works, I trust that it's a failure on my part and not a simple difference in style.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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