Another SSStory

[cdybedahl]

Rupert smiled. "Yes, it's very old you know. I believe it was built over one hundred years ago. Mr. Rogers from the Council owns it; it's been in his family for years."

Right... I'm betting dollars to doughnuts that the story I got was written by an American.

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[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

The story as a whole wasn't at all bad, it was just that one comment that jarred. Giles comes from the country where a Roman fort from 300AD rates a small plaque (it's near the Science and Technology Museum in Manchester, should you want to look at it) and there are lots and lots of buildings from the 18th century still in active use. That he'd consider something a hundred years old to be "very old" seems... wildly improbable. And it's the sort of thing I've become used to seeing from USAnians.

You'll have to go read the story I wrote and say nasty thing about that one in return :-)

[rune-vampyr.livejournal.com]

You'll have to go read the story I wrote and say nasty thing about that one in return

Ack, not at all - not my style. Although I will go read your story tonight when I get the chance ;)

he'd consider something a hundred years old to be "very old" seems... wildly improbable

Well there you go, my bad. In my defence, I didn't have the opportunity to spend a lot of time on the story as my husband was ill in hospital and I had my two girls to cope with, but I wanted to produce *something*, rather than be a no-show. It would have been nice to have had time to look further into Gile's character - I've never written him before, or indeed Willow and Drusilla. But writing the story was an interesting (if rushed) experience nonetheless.

I must scold my beta's also - two of them are English and they never spotted this! LOL