Ted, Ted, Ted

I don’t think Laura reads this site, so maybe she won’t notice that I’m putting up a link to her work. She has been contributing heavily to fangathering.com and fanfiction.net in the last few weeks. She has written someone resembling herself into one story (no hints, you find it), and also tried some interesting mash-ups between work by Fowl author Eoin Colfer and work by some other writers, including some guy named Shakespeare. I especially enjoy the way her command of the language advances week over week, sometimes day over day. Armed with only a few basics, like “show don’t tell,” which I laid on her in a particularly pedantic mood one evening, she has done some remarkable stuff. I think the weakest point is that her excitement with plot can lead her to rush to publish before a story is fully baked, and the reader ends up having to mentally fill in transitions and details that the real Eoin Colfer, who probably works at a more leisurely pace, might have provided. Time and practice, of course. She has built some strong fundamental skills and I can’t wait to see where she takes this.