Thank you so much. You’ve made my day by reading my fics and sharing your thoughts about them. (I’ll enjoy composing my reply to the other lovely comment soon.) Sometimes I have to wonder if my writing ever appeals to people who ask for recs. Surprises like this confirm that it’s worthwhile not only to write and publish these stories but also to keep pimping them. In this case you also made me reach the second page of comments!
I’m thrilled you like this piece so much – particularly when the first person must have given you some reservations to start with. I now write all my short stories in the first person (and present tense), and I wonder if I could command the emotion or make the text flow beautifully without this technique.
It’s reassuring you find the line you quoted so perfect. I was afraid my Remus got a bit too melodramatic at that point. The phrase about a womb is perhaps better justified (and more natural as a spontaneous, genuine thought) in the context of my Remus’s whole story, as I’ve shown elsewhere how he learnt to regard the regaining of his human body after each transformation as some kind of a rebirth.
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I’m thrilled you like this piece so much – particularly when the first person must have given you some reservations to start with. I now write all my short stories in the first person (and present tense), and I wonder if I could command the emotion or make the text flow beautifully without this technique.
It’s reassuring you find the line you quoted so perfect. I was afraid my Remus got a bit too melodramatic at that point. The phrase about a womb is perhaps better justified (and more natural as a spontaneous, genuine thought) in the context of my Remus’s whole story, as I’ve shown elsewhere how he learnt to regard the regaining of his human body after each transformation as some kind of a rebirth.