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Bryce Courtney wasn't a thing on here, which is shocking. I'm thinking of one of his many works. The Potato Factory. I'm grateful for the many works of Bryce. Wonderful environment, Australian country is brilliantly captured, small town vibe and the perspective of place over time.

I read a recent story of an Australian man in Ballarat, his legacy over generations from being a young orphaned boy in Victoria market to selling a pet store chain in Sydney to Japanese Investors. The illywhacker. Proceeds and illustrates the same narrative continuity, style and characters I find in Bryce's works.

I think that's what I love best, he's an author for the works. Signature style story arc and setting, Bryce's narratives seem to be a continuity of him, his boyhood and life lessons gleem through with nostalgic innocence and nievity. That's what I didn't like, didn't sit well with me. Knew from the front page he didn't represent my experienced views of persecution, colour or gender politics. I was introduced in the Aus tralian school system, and his work is accessible, acceptable and his written anthology fits the same narrative structure with few variations or stylistic challenges, writing seemed not just possible but easy. Clique' Australian imaginative place. Because to pick up Bryce's works is to travel to an established place. The trials of self, perseverance, persecution, poverty.

Bryce let me down there, I could tell a sheltered life but forgave the shortcomings of character, well, I suppose I buy into the franchise. Woman or man, boy or girl, black or white, one voice, write and author. Now I'm older I don't forgive his loose depiction, seems frustrating to have widespread readership without the expressed opinions or views on historical matters of race, particularly the whitewash history of a convict nation. I hope he grows personally through his works but it seems others will have to set the story straight with a stronger narrative and testimonial from perspective to legitimize the place he's so vividly written to life, Hobart town, country Australia, South Africa.

I read the Power of One later on, I was only a kid at the time. From my own persona, I was an Australian kid, reader travelling to space, still blows my mind to think of the world a writer can narrate. Seemed contextually weird, I'd never thought about the power. Read enough and the power follows. Bryce could take a journey with Nelson Mandela a show of solidarity with Mohammed Ali, stand for a world which is justified with...nah. I'd feel like a fool.

As I think now, his characters and associates are protagonists toward a moral agenda.

Hopefully the works grow and I'm missing fan service, syllabus lessons or the like. I now doubt the authenticity, could be writers wrote the anthology, not the solitary writer of a biography, instead a memoir.

Stick with Rice. Sauce. Potato. Don't get fancy. Write for action sequences, setting, theme. The world just happens. I've got powers.

The ship is red.

thinking about that fandom friend who messaged me once asking if I'd be willing to write for their OTP because there were so few works out there for it, but they liked my writing style

thinking about that ship and how I really ended up enjoying it, even though it was never my main, and how that ship went from just a handful of fics on AO3 to now having over 650 (there's still more than 350 with otp:true!)

back when they messaged me, I think there were 30 fics in the tag but they messaged other multishipper authors and they created a little community and while that ship will never be a massive juggernaut, it's certainly not a rarepair anymore

amazing things are possible if you're friendly and enthusiastic and you reach out to people who are friendly and willing to help out

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