8FOLD: Mighty Medley # 21, September 2015, by Brenton, McClure, Perron, Russell, and Russell

[Adrian J. McClure]

On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 2:36:12 AM UTC-4, Andrew Perron wrote:
> 
> The feeling of being stretched, of inhabiting the whole landscape, of vague 
> disassociation? Honestly I really enjoy it - when I'm driving a car. `-`;
> 
> (Though man, I want to go in a sleeper car on a train someday.)
> 

Yeah, same here.

> 
> Hmmmmm. I might've made a bit more explicit of a link between her not knowing 
> where she was going in life and being drawn onto this bus - but on the other 
> hand, I know well the pain of running out of room. @.@ (See my comments on my story.

I often write by hinting at the implication of ideas instead of stating them directly, letting them actively work in the readers' minds. Of course, my stories are also really dense with ideas, so I'm not sure the implications always come through.

> Oooooooh. o.o Fascinating... this is kind of like the opposite of that one issue 
> of Nonfiction, isn't it?

Well the whole ending with an outsider to the 8fold universe ending up in it was apropos. I still, to be honest, don't really feel like I "get" the 8fold world, though I certainly find it interesting. This means that most of my Medley bits will not have much to do with other peoples' work, unlike my highly fanwanky LNH stories.

> Honestly, I think I might've bitten off more than I could chew with this - the 
> main idea may well have been too much to try and get in a one-page story. ^^;

I really liked it, though! A longer form work built around these ideas could be interesting.

Adrian