Let it be known...

... that I officially love Ballyharnon.

A few days ago I finally put together my Sirius/Remus recs page for my website, one of the few pages that were still missing, and then e-mailed the authors I'd recced to let them know that I'd recced them, and ask for permission to link.

Three of them replied pretty quickly, and one of them was Ballyharnon, whose story I had recced with some caveats (it's one of those stories you fall in love with despite having quite a few issues with them). So, I recced her, because the story was too interesting not to be recced, but I criticised her at the same time. In the review, I called my criticism 'scathing'. She wrote back that I obviously had no idea of the concept of 'scathing', and that my criticisms were legitimate and she had heard them before and was in fact in the process of rewriting the story in question. In short, she was very nice and approachable, and so I asked her, as I am sometimes wont to do when getting in touch with a person whose writing I like, to have a look at my own S/R piece.

Well. I got back a beta'd version this morning - and a full beta was just about the last thing I expected! - in which she 'chops up' my fic, as she says. But if I have no grasp of the concept of 'scathing', then Bally has no idea of the concept of 'chopping up' a fic. *g* Most of her criticisms are in fact very minor, some of the stylistic things she objects to can be explained by my not being a native speaker, and all in all, her feedback is very generous and *good*. That makes two authors I admire who've given me good feedback on that piece. (The other one being selenak.) And *that* makes me very, very happy. I may not be getting feedback often, but as long as there's something like this among it from time to time, even if it's only once a year, (and even if I have to ask for it), I'm happy.

So, this is, indeed, one of the good days.

I wish I had the time to revise the story now, but university demands my attention.