Discussion of "Letters to a Friend" by blackwolfjk13

Okay, I don't see the "short intro" that I wrote anywhere so I'll just put it here. Anyway, this is similar to a "game" my friend and I continued all through high school. We wrote back and forth as young Aristocratic ladies from London. It was fun to watch the characters and storyline go from historically accurate to becoming this whole fantasy/adventure story. You just have to go with whatever the other person writes. This time I chose to become a young man in a time after an apocalypse. I left the age and gender of his friend open for you guys to do what you want with it. If you write back I promise to continue the story, even if several people write me back. I'll write back a letter to each person and we can see how the storyline differs between people. Or different people could write back as Richie, too, if they wanted. Just keep it running please!!

I'm more than a little suspicious that I've frolicked stark naked through the post appocalyptic fields part of my imagination just a few times more than too many...and can give it up any time I want, thank you very much*AHEM* but I say this with a thuroughly over-blown sense of what's cliche in the subject: the beginning feels a little stiff. Still, it doesn't matter! Sounds like a ball to write back and forth about.

Gracious me, Mr. Croup, but aren't we altogether grandiloquent in our unsolicited critiquing, and with what exactitude your command of language reigns, proffering such phrases as "the beginning", or "feels stiff". The /reasonable/ segment of the population might have read the beginning, middle, and ending through simply enjoying the high points, of which there are many I imagine you might have noticed. The genuine quality of calling a friend soldier, then saying he'll never get use to that? The empathy evoked in reading about it taking appocaplypse to elivate him to the status of "important"? Are these the "stiff" feeling areas, or were they edited out of your copy as they passed through the "boo everybody" detachment of the "yay me" department in that consumately convoluded cauliflower between your ears?

creepy i alsmost wrote a story with the exact same name, but it was going to be apoctlcitic

Lol, thanks Mr_Croup for your criticisms/compliments??? And for you witty banter between you and yourself. Just keep in mind that Richie wasn't meant to be this super intelligent English major or anything. He's just a lonely soldier in a scary world. I'm trying not to make his speech pattern anything elaborate and I really am doing my best to embrace his character. He should evolve more as these letters play out and I get a better feel for him and his situations based a lot on what you guys write back.

Honestly, it is good, and it's a good idea. Take my previous words with, perhaps, two, maybe three grains of premium, coarse-grained, iodized salt, now available with irony...

Thanks. :) Oh, to anyone that has written or is possibly going to add their own take to this letter chain: I just wanted to apologize for the lame titles on all the continuing letters from me. It's just easier for me to keep track of which storyline I'm working on and I figured it'd be easier for you guys to find your branch of the story, too.