You're not a lousy beta at all! I am so thrilled to be getting such informative concrit on such a lightweight ficlet.
I really don't know if I will do this again. It still surprises me that I did it this time! I remember thinking, "oh cool, newbie writers are writing for this fest and they're doing a great job." and then I was curious which prompts hadn't yet been claimed and I went through the prompts and when I came across this one I just thought, "oh. I wonder if I could do something with this?"
But at first it was just an exercise for me to see if I could do it. I didn't even plan on posting it at all. But once I finally had a last line that I liked, I got brave and decided what the hell.
But I honestly know that anything longer would have been a significant challenge for me. I've tried in the past to dream up plots, and I always get stuck somewhere and can't make it work, even in my head. Dealing with setting descriptions is also something I'd be too impatient to do. It's funny that Vaysh thought it mostly worked that I hadn't described the location. Mostly I just avoided it because I had no patience for it! Making a virtue of necessity, I suppose :)
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I really don't know if I will do this again. It still surprises me that I did it this time! I remember thinking, "oh cool, newbie writers are writing for this fest and they're doing a great job." and then I was curious which prompts hadn't yet been claimed and I went through the prompts and when I came across this one I just thought, "oh. I wonder if I could do something with this?"
But at first it was just an exercise for me to see if I could do it. I didn't even plan on posting it at all. But once I finally had a last line that I liked, I got brave and decided what the hell.
But I honestly know that anything longer would have been a significant challenge for me. I've tried in the past to dream up plots, and I always get stuck somewhere and can't make it work, even in my head. Dealing with setting descriptions is also something I'd be too impatient to do. It's funny that Vaysh thought it mostly worked that I hadn't described the location. Mostly I just avoided it because I had no patience for it! Making a virtue of necessity, I suppose :)