I was astonished by how few reviews your stuff on ff.net had -- it really is amazingly good. I love the way you get into Schuldig's head. I honestly don't know how true your version of him is to canon, but the way you write him is incredibly real. You make sense of apparently random behavior, and manage to make him a sympathetic character even when he's on a murder spree. You do a particularly good job of portraying him as uneducated but clever -- not often a deep thinker, but a quick one, just incredibly rough around the edges. That's something I appreciate, since I've known all too many people who mistake knowledge for intellect and value book learning over life lessons. Schuldig's awareness (and fury and resentment) that Crawford will never view him as an equal comes across with painful clarity. (Okay, I admit, it hits close to home for me, too.)
You have a rare talent for characterization. Really. Nurture that, and use it. You do the kind of writing I only wish I could; I know several published fiction writers who will never do it as well as you do.
There, I think that's enough fangirling for today.
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Date: 2007-03-18 08:47 pm (UTC)You have a rare talent for characterization. Really. Nurture that, and use it. You do the kind of writing I only wish I could; I know several published fiction writers who will never do it as well as you do.
There, I think that's enough fangirling for today.