Date: August 20, 2008 11:23 am Title: two - branches
I think what's most amazing about this is how thoroughly you're painting life on the Schrute Farm. We've heard passing mention about so many of these people but not they've been given form and it's so real. Not only that, but you're managing to explain Mose's...Moseness!
Author's Response: I may have spent way too long thinking about Mose. It was like stepping into his world for a while, and once I started looking around, I actually had to start cutting stuff from the fic, there were so many weird things to share!
10 [Report This]Date: July 27, 2008 07:31 pm Title: two - branches
This is brilliant! Beautiful writing--so evocative and detailed and deep, with such terrific imagery. You did an amazing job of weaving in all the bizarre little snippets we've heard about the Schrutes in a completely believable manner and made me utterly fall in love with sweet Mose in the process. Incorporating the rest of the office cast during that lovely conclusion was a nice touch and deftly woven.
Your writing is beautiful. There are at least twenty quote-worthy passages, way too many to list, but this was the first one that caught me, the 'first' (love that, by the way) of Mose's shunnings:
It’s not a big deviation from the usual ignorance of his existence, but somehow there’s a painful difference between neglect and intentional silence.
It takes a lot to move me to tears but the end of this did just that. Anyway, suffice it to say, this is an amazing piece of work that I thoroughly enjoyed--bravo!
Author's Response: I really want to thank you for such an indepth comment on this fic, and for your support on the boards. This fic was outside my normal genre, and I so appreciate anyone who took the time to read and comment on something that is quite off the radar of most of the MTT readership. I had a lot of fun writing Mose and all his strange experiences and I'm glad to find others who can enjoy this, too.