(Augh, sorry, meant to reply to this a lot sooner!)
Hee. I do too, but this one read very much to me like one that wasn't going to be permanent? Maybe I'm just jaded at this point :)
Ha. It also could be a Western genre convention that I don't know as well? Westerns have not been something I've gravitated toward.
That critique of Wind nails the issue about why it wasn't working so well.
The Holland essay... it might not be 100% fair to compare "Carnival Nine" to it, but there's a way disability, intrinsic worth, and parental experience are operating in both, especially at the end of C9, that seem congruent. If the Holland essay is comforting or helpful to some parents, great! But some cursory googling suggests its perspective is not universal.
*googles "Dogfight"*
Oh, right, this one! I vaguely remember reading it. What's the connection... oh. Pyrrhic victory versus connection to people?
The world is in such difficulty these days, I could go either way on saving the obelisk as key to a better story. It would depend on the skill of the author, which was not in great display in the story as written.
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Date: 2018-07-23 09:14 pm (UTC)Hee. I do too, but this one read very much to me like one that wasn't going to be permanent? Maybe I'm just jaded at this point :)
Ha. It also could be a Western genre convention that I don't know as well? Westerns have not been something I've gravitated toward.
That critique of Wind nails the issue about why it wasn't working so well.
The Holland essay... it might not be 100% fair to compare "Carnival Nine" to it, but there's a way disability, intrinsic worth, and parental experience are operating in both, especially at the end of C9, that seem congruent. If the Holland essay is comforting or helpful to some parents, great! But some cursory googling suggests its perspective is not universal.
*googles "Dogfight"*
Oh, right, this one! I vaguely remember reading it. What's the connection... oh. Pyrrhic victory versus connection to people?
The world is in such difficulty these days, I could go either way on saving the obelisk as key to a better story. It would depend on the skill of the author, which was not in great display in the story as written.