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Absolutely stunning German stamp set.

Very well interpreted and well executed story.

I enjoyed the work immensely.

Very concise and interesting, it made me go look up gavin potenza. And funnily enough, though I suppose it could have been meant agressively, I took the last sentence to be highly inspirational.

All the successful artists who make it don’t have anything magic that we don’t have. They just keep going. And so must we.

Thanks so much for the great feedback. I kind of wanted the ambiguity to leave it up to interpretation there at the end. Whether it turned up positive or negative, it’s a bit personal and a bit raw and I felt that was a good place to leave it.

I dont understand Jonathan’s comment ‘Make it’. Does that mean that our art is vindicated through its ability to earn income. Or does ‘make it’ refer to mass appeal? If you are an artist who dreams of wondrous lands, and thrilling plot twists, if you laughed out loud when one of your characters surprised you with a witty joke when he rescued the princess from the ogre, wake up, you have made it. Just because you are not the next john grishom, that doesn’t mean you aren’t the greatest story teller to ever spin a yarn, it just means you suck as a literary agent. Being an earthshaking writer has jack shitz to do with being able to earn a living doing it. Remember Lord buddha,(who has appeared in many well known literary works) said that which you seek you can never obtain.
Sorry to get sidetracked, S&M i liked the fic, it really showed how sometimes we arent stifled by the character limit, but hindered by it. I liked it.

I really like the tone of the whole thing.
I read it twice, once before and once after seeing the stamps. At both readings, I attributed the tone to two different characters (first the “you” and second the narrator), which led to two different interpretations (for me) of what the message actually is.

Awesome flexible piece! you get a pencilcase from me.:D