Ruth Sadelle Alderson

You know, the whole point to that question (and I cringe that I said just for the fic, as if it weren't a valid choice for the fic) was that I honestly thought I'd missed something in my obsessive reading about Ben and Casey, and I wondered what your sources had been if it was based in reality.

You know, much as I love that fic, I still have trouble seeing Casey as that dependent on Ben. But that's probably my own view of Casey more than anything else, and I can certainly suspend it for that particular universe.

I'm really glad to have been the catalyst for you thinking and articulating on what you thought about that story.

I really enjoy it when people talk about their motives for writing something beyond the standard "The characters won't leave me alone" that we all understand. I love it when there's more to it.

For me, personally, a lot of your questions are invaluable to me as a writer, making me question what I write and why I write it, and I just want to thank you for that. I may not always agree, but I do always listen/read and I appreciate every moment you spend on talking about writing, whether to me or someone else. I almost always learn something from your posts, unless it's something we've already been over.

I do have one question. I personally agree with you on the verb tenses in that particular story, but I'm curious as to why you use the term horrified in reference to the positive feedback onlist. For me, when I send positive feedback, I send it because I liked the story, whether or not I felt there was room for improvement. Perhaps the people who commented positively felt the same way?

That said, I just read your onlist comments and I'm glad you posted them. I don't think anyone could possibly have a problem with that feedback, you weren't mean, you weren't bitchy, you simply stated what could be improved, and you said what you liked first (I like that concept, btw, it's much better to read the good stuff first, IMO).