Since you have finished these, I guess it's time to comment on the series.
This is an completely human set of stories. All the bravery and cowardice, strength and weakness, misery and joy. You should be very very proud of this, my dear.
Author's Response: Thank you. That was what I was trying to express, and if I succeeded, then I am content.
These are amazing - the review below sums them up. Proper drabbles should be, well, pointy - and thes eare and even more. You nearly even made me cry, because you're using them to really get at the heart of human nature without undue sentimentality or cynicism and that's quite something. The links and the voices and the sharpness of the drabbles - it's very, very impressive.
Author's Response: Thank you very much! Ssome of them are sentimental, I think, and some are cynical, because those are two real points on the spectrum of human emotion.
These are brilliant, sharp little jewels.
Author's Response: Thank you.
Hi! I'm here from the CoT Reviews LJ community. First of all, congratulations on your nomination for Round Three of the Children of Time Awards.
We at CoT Reviews try to review all of the nominated stories in each round, and in today's post we've featured your story. Please feel free to stop by and look.
I knew I'd found something amazing when I read The Medic's Tale in the last round - and I couldn't wait to nominate the whole thing, because I couldn't understand how someone could not. As individual pieces, the drabbles are wonderful, but as a whole work, it's utterly breathtaking, nothing short of amazing, and one of the most original and inspiring things I've found in the Whoniverse yet. I was particularly impressed with your demonstration on how you condense them into 100 words - the ability to get into your studio, so to speak, only serves to make me more impressed with what you've accomplished here. Thank you so much for sharing these with us. And like I say in the review - I hope you never stop.
Congratulations again, and good luck!
Author's Response: \"Thank you\" seems like a completely inadequate response, but it\'s all that I can think of right now.
This series surprised me. When I first thought of the basic concept, I only expected to write a handful of drabbles. But the characters keep walking into the \"interview room\" in the back of my head, demanding to have their stories written down. As long as they keep talking, I\'ll keep writing.
For those who are wondering about the \"demonstration\" of how I write, it\'s on my LJ. I posted \"The Mechanic\'s Tale\", followed by the 200+ word first draft.
It\'s here.
Dark and light, you've put these stories out, and they're so deceptively simple and short, until you read them, or think too hard (or not that hard) about what you've just read. Wonderful stuff, and terrible - not that the fic is bad; it's brilliant! but the themes you're dealing with... *shudders*
This is a very haunting piece of work. It's interesting too, because I've read quite a few year-that-wasn't stories now that show this idea that maybe the Master (and his Toclafane) weren't the biggest villains in that story, and that, maybe, the Doctor (and his Martha) weren't the greatest heroes either;
there's probably some comment lurking in there about the nature of humanity, but I'm not enough of a philosopher to root out what that comment may be, only enough to say:
thanks for the fic!
Author's Response: Thanks for the kind words. I am not a philosopher, either, but there is a quote from Prince Caspian that fits this series very well.
\"\'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,\' said Aslan. \'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor in earth.\'\"
Fantastic series of stories. Though each one is only 100 words, they all bring such varied and intimate voices to life. And together they all intertwine and mesh to contribute to the larger story, like puzzle pieces fitting into place. Great job.
Author's Response: Thanks for the kind words!