My first review!
Me, Writing January 21st, 2008Well, I’m happier than a pig in shit at the moment.
Last night I opened up my RSS reader, ready to catch up on all the news for the day… and proceeded to fall out of my chair. You see, I stumbled, completely out of the blue, on the first review of one of my stories!
Aaron, the muse over at The Soulless Machine Review, a web site dedicated to reviewing the lost art of short fiction, stumbled across one of the pieces of short fiction, Ferry Traffic, I have posted as a free download on my main web site and seemed to have liked what he found!
I have to admit that I’m rather humbled at the thought that he enjoyed the piece enough to feel the urge to let others know about it. It gives me that little kick in the ass of confidence that’s so important to aspiring writers.
So, I just wanted to give a big shout out and a public thanks to Aaron (check out his blog!) for helping this aspiring writer out. God knows I need it!
For those interested, you can find Aaron’s review HERE and the free downloadable copy of Ferry Traffic HERE.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
It was a good story. Keep up the good work.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:08 am
Congrats. I’m zipping over to read the review and download the piece!
January 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I liked it as well. Great job; I was not writing nearly that well 20 years ago!
January 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am
That was the first piece I read from you, Aidan, and I liked it A LOT. It works great as a short story. And now that I’ve been on the ferry, it makes it even more enjoyable.
January 30th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Thanks everyone.
Like always, I’m rather humbled when people not only read, but enjoy, what I have to write. I feel like I should go back and have a look at those three stories that are posted on my web site, to make sure they’re as good as they can be!
Shawn, I’m glad to know that the Ferry setting was well captured and enhaced the story. It’s the type of experience that can only happen on a train or a ferry, and that’s part of what makes it so interesting to me.