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	<title>Comments on: Critique #44 &#8212; Tib Hamilton</title>
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	<description>Writing and Reading. Commerce and Art. Fantasy and Science Fiction. Discuss.</description>
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		<title>By: Katharine Kerr</title>
		<link>http://www.deepgenre.com/wordpress/damon-knight/critique-44#comment-1353</link>
		<dc:creator>Katharine Kerr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It sounds to me like Tib's focus character is drunk, struggling to avoid a mind-meld, or dying.  Tib, if that's your intention, you've done an excellent job at conveying a mind struggling to stay focused against nearly impossible odds.

I like this piece so far and would turn the page.

It as yet doesn't have a genre connection, but one might well lurk.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sounds to me like Tib&#8217;s focus character is drunk, struggling to avoid a mind-meld, or dying.  Tib, if that&#8217;s your intention, you&#8217;ve done an excellent job at conveying a mind struggling to stay focused against nearly impossible odds.</p>
<p>I like this piece so far and would turn the page.</p>
<p>It as yet doesn&#8217;t have a genre connection, but one might well lurk.</p>
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		<title>By: Erin Underwood</title>
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		<dc:creator>Erin Underwood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tib,

It looks like you've got quite a complicated stream of consciousness going here. You've even managed a reference to James Joyceâ€™s &lt;em&gt;Ulysses &lt;/em&gt;with your mention of going to the chemist shop only to find that the lotion (bar of lemon soap) isn't ready yet. However, I donâ€™t yet see any reference to sf or fantasy. Will that be coming later?

I enjoy reading stream of consciousness, although it does tend to leave me feeling as if I just stepped out of a blender. However, you need to create more of a solid narrator to hold the piece together. This will allow the reader to slip more easily into the rhythm of thoughts and images that flit through the narratorâ€™s mind. Otherwise, all we experience is a blur of pretty but meaningless images.

Also, Kevin has a very good point about the use of punctuation. Even though this is stream of consciousness, you still should add spaces between all of the words and slip in apostrophes where appropriate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tib,</p>
<p>It looks like you&#8217;ve got quite a complicated stream of consciousness going here. You&#8217;ve even managed a reference to James Joyceâ€™s <em>Ulysses </em>with your mention of going to the chemist shop only to find that the lotion (bar of lemon soap) isn&#8217;t ready yet. However, I donâ€™t yet see any reference to sf or fantasy. Will that be coming later?</p>
<p>I enjoy reading stream of consciousness, although it does tend to leave me feeling as if I just stepped out of a blender. However, you need to create more of a solid narrator to hold the piece together. This will allow the reader to slip more easily into the rhythm of thoughts and images that flit through the narratorâ€™s mind. Otherwise, all we experience is a blur of pretty but meaningless images.</p>
<p>Also, Kevin has a very good point about the use of punctuation. Even though this is stream of consciousness, you still should add spaces between all of the words and slip in apostrophes where appropriate.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin Andrew Murphy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kevin Andrew Murphy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2006 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tib,

I think your sample had some form of accident with a wordprocessor.  There are all sorts of spaces missing in places, and likewise apostrophes missing.

You've repeated some sentences in various spots, I'm not certain if for effect or just did a copy-and-paste and forgot to delete the original copy.

Anyway, there are some pretty descriptions here, but there's an odd disjointed feel to the whole thing.  I'm not certain I like it.  I'd turn the page if just to figure out what's going on, and there are certainly some tantalizing hints, but if the puzzlement continued very long after, I'd put it down.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tib,</p>
<p>I think your sample had some form of accident with a wordprocessor.  There are all sorts of spaces missing in places, and likewise apostrophes missing.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve repeated some sentences in various spots, I&#8217;m not certain if for effect or just did a copy-and-paste and forgot to delete the original copy.</p>
<p>Anyway, there are some pretty descriptions here, but there&#8217;s an odd disjointed feel to the whole thing.  I&#8217;m not certain I like it.  I&#8217;d turn the page if just to figure out what&#8217;s going on, and there are certainly some tantalizing hints, but if the puzzlement continued very long after, I&#8217;d put it down.</p>
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