Post by deplancher on Dec 31, 2020 16:20:52 GMT
Bonjour, VC:
Merci beaucoup for your courage in submitting your work for consideration by those of us who limp through the decrepit and debris stained halls of TQR. Respect to you for doing that, and for your patience in awaiting some kind of response. We are sometimes unpredictable and late.
In brief:
The Trawl, as a concept, is timely and provocative and relevant. We are every one of us being snooped in ways we cannot truly comprehend and maybe prefer practiced oblivion for fear of discovering what may be revealed. Yes, you stepped into something worth further pursuit, je pense. Mush mush, and heed.
I like the brevity of the title as well. On encountering it, a reader is not quite sure what's to come and this is a very good sign.
I read your 8000+ words aloud, and to completion. Probably you can interpret that as a positive thing. Not all submissions hold a reader's full attention for their duration. So you write coherently and, though not flawless, I found the read through decent enough. Does anybody call anybody else 'Mr' at a law firm though? I stumbled over that reference a little bit, but I might have issues with authority.
Here we go then, without dragging it out. We are peculiar and TQR is a peculiar place. Some might think it on the slippery cliff side of odd. So be it and so it be. The Trawl, J.VC, is not for this place. The title? The concept. Peut-être. Maybe. Potentially.
The content, however, is ordinary and the characters a bit colourless. Uninteresting. Predictably pedestrian. You might ask yourself: why would anyone care what happens in these mediocre little lives of petty concerns? The answer is important.
These realities do not mean there is no home for The Trawl. It rolls along and jerks and pulls at some emotion. It tells a story and does so with reasonable skill but maybe loses the crack of the initial concept being the awful reality of the Big Snoop and gives too much into melodrama. You will know better why you made the choices you did in your telling.
To break through the dirty windows of TQR, a thing does indeed have to shine with the brightest of lights. It must shimmer and shake us. It must take us places we might not have thought it possible to go.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami. The Trawl must walk on to the next inbox. I hope it will meet with welcoming over there.
Bonne chance!
Merci beaucoup for your courage in submitting your work for consideration by those of us who limp through the decrepit and debris stained halls of TQR. Respect to you for doing that, and for your patience in awaiting some kind of response. We are sometimes unpredictable and late.
In brief:
The Trawl, as a concept, is timely and provocative and relevant. We are every one of us being snooped in ways we cannot truly comprehend and maybe prefer practiced oblivion for fear of discovering what may be revealed. Yes, you stepped into something worth further pursuit, je pense. Mush mush, and heed.
I like the brevity of the title as well. On encountering it, a reader is not quite sure what's to come and this is a very good sign.
I read your 8000+ words aloud, and to completion. Probably you can interpret that as a positive thing. Not all submissions hold a reader's full attention for their duration. So you write coherently and, though not flawless, I found the read through decent enough. Does anybody call anybody else 'Mr' at a law firm though? I stumbled over that reference a little bit, but I might have issues with authority.
Here we go then, without dragging it out. We are peculiar and TQR is a peculiar place. Some might think it on the slippery cliff side of odd. So be it and so it be. The Trawl, J.VC, is not for this place. The title? The concept. Peut-être. Maybe. Potentially.
The content, however, is ordinary and the characters a bit colourless. Uninteresting. Predictably pedestrian. You might ask yourself: why would anyone care what happens in these mediocre little lives of petty concerns? The answer is important.
These realities do not mean there is no home for The Trawl. It rolls along and jerks and pulls at some emotion. It tells a story and does so with reasonable skill but maybe loses the crack of the initial concept being the awful reality of the Big Snoop and gives too much into melodrama. You will know better why you made the choices you did in your telling.
To break through the dirty windows of TQR, a thing does indeed have to shine with the brightest of lights. It must shimmer and shake us. It must take us places we might not have thought it possible to go.
Merci beaucoup, mon ami. The Trawl must walk on to the next inbox. I hope it will meet with welcoming over there.
Bonne chance!