tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post2835810969707825621..comments2024-03-04T02:09:30.979-06:00Comments on One Man's Pony Ramblings: 6-Star Reviews Part 8: Memories of Those Friends Who've Gone Before UsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-10044606641322227352012-09-26T08:15:52.936-05:002012-09-26T08:15:52.936-05:00You sir have put WAY to many things on my To-red l...You sir have put WAY to many things on my To-red list. I don't have time for all this, dammit! Really, I'm highly curious as to how you do.DeftFunkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15383241789583487786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-22009941816276048642011-12-19T17:47:34.771-06:002011-12-19T17:47:34.771-06:00Thank you very much for bringing my attention to t...Thank you very much for bringing my attention to this story. Best thing I have read in quite a long while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-91133000033636496722011-11-14T23:50:34.967-06:002011-11-14T23:50:34.967-06:00Don't worry; I too have never quite mastered t...Don't worry; I too have never quite mastered the art of taking a complement gracefully. In my case, at least, it's no doubt the inevitable result of too few chances to practice. <br /><br />/wry self-deprecation <br /><br />In my (admittedly limited) experience with actual authors, it seems to be a common theme that the work for which they are most praised/have received the greatest critical acclaim/have made the most money off of is not, in fact, the work of theirs which they personally feel is best. I suppose this either means that authors as a group are terrible judges of their own writing, or that readers are terrible judges of anyone's writing. Or both.<br /><br />Either way, I'm glad that you find the attention gratifying, rather than annoying or misguided. And incidentally, I'd also like to thank you for the last sentence you wrote. Sometimes seeing all the teens in this fandom makes me feel old, but I'm not quite so old that I can remember when Carter was president :)Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11581572699330155065noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8184562969471581744.post-83169001267599841312011-11-14T01:57:55.538-06:002011-11-14T01:57:55.538-06:00Oh dear.
I stumbled across a link to your blog wh...Oh dear.<br /><br />I stumbled across a link to your blog while lurking Ponychan's /fic/ board this evening, and came snooping around for the full source behind a couple of quotes from your "My Days at FF.net" post. I certainly wasn't expecting a review of one of my stories to be at the top of the page, and now feel somewhat obligated to respond. At the very least, I'd like to offer a genuine thank you for your review and for pointing out the following:<br /><br />>the line on page 9, "Where are the ponies who can't afford to by copies..." should say, "Where are the ponies who can't afford to buy copies..."<br /><br />This is now fixed, and all credit for the same goes to Chris' keen eye.<br /><br />As for any other comments I might make, I always have a fear that I'll come off as conceited or otherwise overly-self-serving when responding to a favorable review, so I'll just restate something I've said about this story before: It boggles my mind that this story's had such a response, especially since I originally considered it to be little more than a distraction from the larger fic I'm still chewing through. Still, I <i>do</i> like this story and <i>do</i> consider it to be one of my better deviations (there's that conceit I've been sweating, laid bare for all to see), and while I sometimes think the praise it's received is inflated, it inspires me to keep moving forward. That is what I thank you for most of all.<br /><br />-WTFHIW<br /><br />Oh yeah. In case you're curious, the acronym's short for "What The F*ck Have I Written?!", which happens to be a question I've been asking myself almost daily since the Carter administration. ;-)WTFHIWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08473180919661393759noreply@blogger.com