I know the assignment was given only a few hours ago, but I couldn’t wait to get started.
So here goes.
Adorelo’s TQ: When a challenge to write a story with specific elements is given and answered, I don’t necessarily find the elements break up the flow of the story. Nor do I necessarily find it an exciting exploration of another facet of fanfiction. Simply put…it’s hard! At least for me it is. I find it hard to write a story with elements that are required, versus getting an idea in my head and running with it…putting my own elements in it. It’s kind of like it was when I was in school and had “required reading”… required reading was never as fun as reading a book I chose to read on my own. Perhaps it’s because my stories are always romance stories…and teachers never required me to read a romance story, darn it.
In writing a story with required elements I find myself wracking my brain trying to come up with a story that will fit all the required elements. Luckily, for this challenge it was easy as it was only one required element.
TQ: How do you usually perceive fanfics that were written by team effort compared to those that were by solitary effort?
I don’t perceive the fanfics written by a team any differently than I do one done by one person. That is, if they’re done right. Stories written by a team…where the team has a central idea as to how the story should go, with each team member contributing their share can make for a very good story. The only exception to this is the “round robin”. Those are usually choppy, flitting from one direction to another, with no real cohesiveness.
She Has Your Eyes
By: Lostladyknight and Bauerfreak
Critique By: Jennifer
Critique By Challenge: Project #1
Well done! I honestly think you’ve outdone yourself on this one. It was very well written…good grammar, spelling, sentence structure, paragraphs, and characterization. There were only a couple spelling/grammar errors, but they were so minor as to be insignificant, and certainly did not take away from how good the story is.
The story itself was just adorable, Nick with a baby girl, juggling work and being a father. I could just hear him with his slight Texas twang, “"Shhh babe... it’s okay... daddy’s gettin it." The scene with him, Sara, and Chelsea was lovely, and I liked how you described it when Sara wrapped her arms around Nick and Chelsea…
Sara slid off of her chair and gently down next to Nick
wrapping her arms around him in a gesture that would
appear almost too intimate for work if Nick hadn’t been
holding a child. The infant, however, proved to be a
useful excuse in almost any situation where they were
caught in an almost compromising pose.
I had to smile when Warrick and Grissom walked into the breakroom and Grissom woke Chelsea up. So typical of him. And then Chelsea’s “perfectly timed movement of her head”…funny! And what a way to end it…with her sleeping on Warricks’ chest.
