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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Single Malt" data-source="post: 1669775" data-attributes="member: 197">Answers to old questionsFirst of all I'd like to congratulate Destan on a fantastic story hour, that has me totally hooked. I just finished the first three word documents and started scanning the first thread (for DM and player insights) and I thought I'd take this time to respond to a couple of requests that were made by him a long(?) time ago: one was about new readers to well established story hours and the other was simply a good, old "if you're reading, let me know what you think".Well, if I say that I started reading this from the beginning during lunch two days ago, I guess that pretty much covers both, but I'll spell it out anyway. After reading good things about your work in several other threads I finally checked it out and boy, was I not disappointed! The writing is, in my eyes, simply superb; the descriptions bring the characters and environments to life and the story keeps you turning to the next page as fast as possible. So regarding the first question, I would say yes, new readers can be brought in to "old" story hours if the material is good enough (and they have the ability to extend their lunch breaks  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )The second request also involved a desire for input regarding writing style. To that I'm gonna be decidedly unhelpful and say: don't change a thing! Meaning that one of the things I enjoy most about reading story hours, and I follow quite a few, are the differences in style. I guess many others have said this before, but to me the little peculiarities, quirks and imperfections (in lack of a better word) in the writing only serves to enhance each story hours individual flavor and adds to the reading experience almost as much the content. (It's in these situations I really wish I were a native english speaker. I'm not sure that came out the way I wanted it to....)Anyway, I'll get back to reading now. Good luck on your gaming!Single Malt</blockquote>

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