mari4212 | (no subject) (Reply)

It's been a day full of ups and downs.

For example, cramps = pain and annoyance to the infinite exponent. But finding out that your mother had made chocolate cookies definitely improves the situation.

And the kids had a dramatic turnaround, from spending the morning fussing and whining at each other to being remarkably well-behaved this afternoon.

And I had good news and bad news on the most recent prophet_elite point totals. (Non-H_E members of the flist, that's where certain members of H_E who have won a contest can post stories or artwork for extra points for their house.) On the one hand, I know from the quick estimates I did when I posted the stories that I could earn between 10-20 points, depending on how well recieved the stories were. I also know that with my total score, I recieved at least one Excellent, and that the most likely scores on the others were Good, to explain how I earned the point total I recieved. So that's good news. The bad news is that I'm really starting to understand why people object to not knowing the point breakdowns. I know that I did very well on one story, but not which one, so I have no idea which styles worked well for others, and which did not. I mean, I can say that I felt happiest about how one story worked out, and I thought that another story was weaker than the others, but that's mainly influenced by the fact that I don't feel comfortable writing 'ship in general, and has nothing to do, objectively, with the story's merits. Argh, I just really wish the prophet editors were allowed to leave point breakdowns or concrit.

By the way, given that rant I just worked through, if there's ever anything you want to point out, positive or negative, about one of my stories, do so with my blessing. I've got a strong enough hide to take a good bit of constructive criticism, and I'm aware that I'm still learning how to write good stories.

And that reminds me, I still have to put up the next bit of my other Doctor Who story.