Recent content by Miz en Scène

I tend to write stories which don't use canonical characters, so you could say I gravitate more towards original fiction in some ways. But I think my point is moot because most of my stories are character-based rather than plot-based, so they focus more on how people relate to people (or...

Ugh, I meant to respond to this sooner, but I've had a hell of a week. It's still ongoing, but I feel like it'd be impolite to keep putting this off. Anti-climax actually wasn't a theme I was aiming for, haha, but I can definitely see where you're coming from. It was completely unintentional I...

Hahaha, I love this! I think my favourite part was the Meowstic being questioned for buying eggs. That was the best written part because the humour worked well written out--the character voices were also spot on. Another part I really liked was the jump from "The look on your face when you get...

Maybe it's my inherent bias towards hikkikomori stories, but I think this has loads of potential to be something really interesting. For one thing, I quite like the mystery behind HomuraHotaru suddenly turning up out of the blue like that and the contrast between her middle-school and...

Maybe they're referring to leaving more easygoing comments on fics? It occurs to me that a lot of reviews/comments on this section seem to lean more towards elaborate constructive criticism as opposed to simple "I really liked this" comments. Not that I think there's anything bad about either...

Though I think for this route microbial life would be better than intelligent life because it feels like aliens would be a bit of a distraction to the survival aspect of the RP. I'm actually leaning more towards the settlement backstory because then the Jupiter would already have some equipment...

Among these I think Eclipse is my favourite, but I'm going to have to agree with Ice on this one that it's not much of a horror story in that it's not scary—if that's what you were going for that is. A lot of Ice's critique is spot on. Horror requires a sense of immediacy and pacing that your...

Oh, this reminds me a lot of Tharsis! Definitely registering my interest in this. One thing I'd like to know is what the actual mission was before the failure? I feel like a bit of backstory wouldn't go amiss. Survival is definitely important, but since this is a free roam type RP I get the...

Haha, yes, it's way more engaging now that Dane's the one actually moving the plot forward! That said, I'm going to move away from plot now because I don't feel like talking about that right this moment, and I think most of my qualms to do with that have been covered by the recent rewrite. I...

Lol, I have no idea what kind of schedule you must have, but that is taxing even for the best of us. I mean, if it works for you then by all means, but be careful not to burn yourself out. It's been known to happen. /friendlyadvice

Yeah, I can totally see why the ending might be a bit of a cop-out in the sense that we should totally expect this sort of thing, but at the same time I wasn't entirely certain how a story of this nature would play out satisfyingly if it didn't happen like this. Initially, when the story was...

I like writing titles that make people wonder what the story's about. If it has a deeper meaning then all the better, but my main focus, at least when it comes to titling, is always concerned with marketing the story rather than adding to it particularly.

I would characterize this as one of the more experimental stories this year, which is never a bad thing, but at the same time these sorts of things always run the risk of losing themselves in the experiment. That's not to say I didn't like it. As a piece of writing, and based solely on a love of...

Thanks for the compliments and the review! I'm glad you also enjoyed the ending because it seems to be one of the main saving graces of my story, flaws aside. That said, I completely agree with your critique regarding the wording of some parts of my fic. I actually do make it a point to make...

You know, a few years ago this section would've given some really choice comments or even a review to this fic within a few hours of it being posted. It's a really well-written gem with some unique qualities that I haven't seen much of (in this section at least) since getting back to...