h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So we are! My heart was bleeding there for a bit though!

Now get your b**t into gear, and start getting this story into the review forum.

I'll 'gamble' that it will receive some great reviews.

Yes'm.

Look forward to seeing it in the review forum.

The sky is really clear tonight. The moon looks sensational. Time for this moon child to get some sleep.

Goodnight

Flame

Goodnight, Flame.

Hi,

I see you have received a wonderful review from Frontiersman. He has a very good eye, and he's an absolute gem when it comes to reviewing. Of course there are others.... but you will soon work these people out for yourself. Still, I expect you were chuffed with what he had to say. And so you should be.

I hope you don't mind me asking him to take a look, but I felt it important that you had some feedback for this story. For some reason I sense this story is of great importance to you, almost like you feel driven to write it. You might have to forgive me for saying that, but I often sense things about people, even ones I barely know, and even over the net.

Flame

Hi Flame,

Yes, the story is a reflection in many ways of issues in my life -- but also a challenge, to present these issues in a way that (I hope) the reader can appreciate.

For example, I was raised in a Stoic family culture. Self-expression, on an emotional level, was regarded as petty and superfluous in my family. So a work such as this is rebellion, in a very personal sense. (Better that I would have rebelled at a more appropriate age, but the issue escaped my understanding until recently.)

I'm thinking the psychological nuances are apparent. I surprised myself, to read messages at different levels in my lines. I'm not enough of a craftsman to deliberately insert succinct hidden meanings, but if something shows, I'm not ashamed.

Gotta run...w**k calls!

Hi

Your work is beautifully written. A great way for you to express your emotions and learn something about yourself along the way. It takes great strength to show who you really are - and to put it out into the universe. It's all there, just probably you didn't know it....

I might just request a psychoanalytical review of Stonecutter...when it is finished.

The learning part is usually aided immeasurably by outside opinion.

Fond regards...and thank you.

Hello!

How's everything going? I noticed you had another chapter written up, so I went and had a read. It's looking really good, and I'm eagerly looking forward to reading more.

Creative writing is quite time consuming isn't it? I'm still working away on my own story, but I have to keep moving away from it, thinking about it, and then come back to it. That's just the way I work.

Hope you are getting lots of feedback for your story. And I'm sure the end result will be worth all of your efforts.

The moon isn't out yet.....

Flame

Hi Flame

I woke up this mornin' (sounds like a blues song...?) and decided to inundate AWW with my chapters.

It certainly seems like a sleepy venue, not much discussion going on.

My outline provides for two more chapters. If I'm a good boy this weekend, I can have it finished.

I enjoy working in chapter-sized modules. If it's fairly short, I can wham away for a couple hours...and spend the next six with a hyper-critical eye.

My common mistake is to edit myself as I write. That has slowed me down considerably, but if I can blurt out my thoughts without a care, I can flow along serenely.

Hi Xantief

Thank fudge it's Friday eh? Hopefully you will be able to complete your story this weekend. I see you've had a fair bit of feedback, and I expect there will be more.

Did you know there's a full moon this weekend?

Flame

Hi Flame

Full moon.... (we see the scribe working in the midnight moonlight, occasionally taking a break to howl...)

I suppose I have to take the decision fairly soon to end the tale. I have no real surprises in store, well maybe I do.

I'll promise one chapter, and hedge on two.

Hi Flame,

Hoping this day/evening finds you well...

I presented another chapter, and at this rate I might finish this weekend.

I hope your work is going well as well.

, Xantief

Hi back at ya!

Thanks for letting me know that you have posted your next chapter. It's great reading. I'm looking forward to reading the conclusion of this story.....

Yep, my work is going fine thanks. Bank holiday weekend here. Woo hoooo!

We have one next weekend...Hooo yeah!

Maybe I could move across the pond in the next few days. Then I could have another holiday.....

If you were to visit Wackyville you could share in the obligatory Labour Day barbecue...

Maybe I'll stay here and have a glass of red wine instead!

Yeah, travel can be such a hassle over Labour Day.

Cheers, though...

Hi Flame,

The end is written.

Thank you for pushing me along...

Xantief