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librarian-faust t1_jd73f83 wrote

Reply to comment by Bevroren in [WP] A colony ship with 5000 human passengers in stasis is heavily damaged in a meteor shower. While the onboard computer does not have the raw materials needed for repairs, it calculates that it has a very large amount of organic matter and a genetics lab. A solution path is now being executed... by lordhelmos

Thank you. I appreciate the compliment. I just don't like pure talking-heads like this as fiction... it'd want world-building, set-dressing, and prose that isn't just two characters in dialogue, to be something I'd like reading, you know?

I feel like talking-heads is lazy writing like script-fics (... excuse me whilst I have trauma flashbacks to 20 years ago on ffn.) - or its modern equivalent the Whatsapp Group Chat fic.

Probably a fault of my personal taste more so than anything else. Feel like someone with my tastes would downvote what I wrote for it being lazy writing, and missing the meat of the writing.

But regardless, I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'll consider putting it in the main post if I do another like this.

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KhaelaMensha t1_jd894ut wrote

Uh, so to me this is also great stuff. You don't need a lot of world building. The important stuff is all there. Captain is just brains and eyes, in a jar. Ship is nearly completely organic now. It does leave a lot of room for own interpretation and ideas, which I actually like.

So don't sell yourself short, it doesn't always have to be a fully fleshed out setting. We get the gist of what's going on, and the gist has been produced in a well-worded manner. Again, great stuff!

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