Beautiful and beautifully sad, too sad - I hate it when Bodie gets hurt!
And while I'm here, re our other conversation, I *thought* I'd already read Gods and Goddesses but couldn't believe that I'd forgetten the bits about Barcelona and transexuals but I've just read it again and realised that I *had* forgotten them! Well, at least the Barcelona bit, the transexual barman rang a bell. And then I went on to read Well Hall and discovered that I hadn't read that one at all, so apologies and I *really* enjoyed it - I love stories with pace, where not only are *they* 'going on' but other things are going on as well i.e. there's action. And you always manage to write and plot a scene with great clarity, so - without having to read something 2 or 3 times in order to understand what the writer is trying to say or describe - with your stories I know exactly what is going on, on my first reading of them. And similarly with your scene setting/descriptions, they're so good that I never have to work hard or struggle to imagine what it is you're writing about because you do it all *for* me and I'm immediately transported, almost into a kind of tableau which seems to be set up solely for me and is waiting for me to join the other characters within it e.g:
Trust Bodie to know another soldier's story. Doyle found himself shivering again. True, his eye had been caught by the classic beauty of the statue and he'd automatically used his old training to read its proportions. But in doing so he'd found himself giving the statue flesh; the heavy thighs, the solid calves, the muscular arms and torso morphing in his mind's eye from green-shaded metal into something much more familiar.
And so I feel I'm able to see almost as well as Doyle, what it is he's 'seeing'.... if you see what I mean....
Anyway, just thought I'd say that I've had a very pleasant hour's reading and I hope it's OK to provide some feedback here.....?
Thank you! I'm so pleased you enjoyed them - all of them - even though I did torture Bodie in the drabble *g*! "Well Hall" started out as something else, then I found a couple of actual locations. There are pictures here if you're interested:
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Date: 2008-05-23 02:46 pm (UTC)Beautiful and beautifully sad, too sad - I hate it when Bodie gets hurt!
And while I'm here, re our other conversation, I *thought* I'd already read Gods and Goddesses but couldn't believe that I'd forgetten the bits about Barcelona and transexuals but I've just read it again and realised that I *had* forgotten them! Well, at least the Barcelona bit, the transexual barman rang a bell. And then I went on to read Well Hall and discovered that I hadn't read that one at all, so apologies and I *really* enjoyed it - I love stories with pace, where not only are *they* 'going on' but other things are going on as well i.e. there's action. And you always manage to write and plot a scene with great clarity, so - without having to read something 2 or 3 times in order to understand what the writer is trying to say or describe - with your stories I know exactly what is going on, on my first reading of them. And similarly with your scene setting/descriptions, they're so good that I never have to work hard or struggle to imagine what it is you're writing about because you do it all *for* me and I'm immediately transported, almost into a kind of tableau which seems to be set up solely for me and is waiting for me to join the other characters within it e.g:
Trust Bodie to know another soldier's story. Doyle found himself shivering again. True, his eye had been caught by the classic beauty of the statue and he'd automatically used his old training to read its proportions. But in doing so he'd found himself giving the statue flesh; the heavy thighs, the solid calves, the muscular arms and torso morphing in his mind's eye from green-shaded metal into something much more familiar.
And so I feel I'm able to see almost as well as Doyle, what it is he's 'seeing'.... if you see what I mean....
Anyway, just thought I'd say that I've had a very pleasant hour's reading and I hope it's OK to provide some feedback here.....?
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Date: 2008-05-24 02:04 am (UTC)"Well Hall" started out as something else, then I found a couple of actual locations. There are pictures here if you're interested:
Eltham Palace
The Tudor Barn, close to the actual site of the house known as 'Well Hall' (now demolished)
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