LJ Idol - Week 1 - When You Pray, Move Your Feet

[malruniel11]

Anya's Miracle

Comments

[michikatinski]

This is absolutely beautiful. I look forward to reading more from you.

[malruniel11]

Thank you! <3

[teenagewitch]

It was beautiful and sweet.

[malruniel11]

Thank you! <3

[majesticzaichik]

Oh I really liked this! I've never exactly been to a church service before, so reading this was kind of new to me and I find that lady's story amazing. There was an air to this which makes me believe it's fiction, but that shows talent. Not knowing : ).

[malruniel11]

<3 It is fiction, but it's based loosely around real events. The big give away is that the narrator is a boy, and I am decidedly not. Thank you for your compliments! I'm curious about the story that's hinted at, but not told, in the third sentence. I hope Anya will tell me that story later. It promises to be a big one!

[majesticzaichik]

Yeah... maybe it was that! Maybe I remembered you being a girl : ). But I guess it was some other things. The story sounded very inspiring, maybe a little hard to imagine you having a connection with a person like that?

[malruniel11]

I have had hard to imagine relationships all my life. I've always related better to the elderly and the little ones, so that sort of relationship is extremely realistic to me, but it's something I knew would be harder for others to believe.

Another hint towards fiction that you may or may not have picked up on is the subconscious timeline. The war was WWII (as alluded to by where she was during the war), and she had moved to that area after the war, so around 1945-47, I'd imagine. Then, at the end, it is said that it has been 19 years had passed, so it can be assumed that it's around 1963-1965 when the boy's coming home for her funeral. That definitely sets it out of my lifetime by about 20 years.

[tralfamadore]

This is fiction, isn't it? Provided I'm right about that, I admire you for taking that big risk right from the get-go. The entry is very powerful though and tells an extremely moving story. It is very vivid, and I could picture it happening as I was reading. I even got the chill of the winter air and the slickness of the ice-covered path. Very nice, and very sweet and touching.

[malruniel11]

You're right, it is fiction. Thank you, thank you for your compliments and response! My own personal thought about fiction in LJIdol is that it's a writing contest. Writing comes in all forms, so all forms are valid and none should be necessarily favored over the other (except perhaps poetry which is so deeply personal with how it's written and how it's read.) So that's why I will go back and forth and use both this season. *steps down off the mini-soap box*

[tralfamadore]

I do agree with you. My knee-jerk reaction was, "But wait! This is a... oh." I would imagine that since LiveJournal is regarded as a personal online journal platform (thought clearly it's so much more than that), there's sort of an assumption that most of what people write is going to be real in the sense that it really happened to them. But you're right, it's a writing competition! Who's to say that a person should use one form over another if they feel the message can best be achieved in a particular way? I think you did an excellent job with this entry, so it's really no skin off my nose who it may or may not have happened to. It's still a very powerful message. :]

[malruniel11]

And I was sitting here, so hoping for skin from your nose to add to the pot!

...or not. lol I think we should all write whatever we're inspired to write, so I encourage everyone to write what comes, regardless of genre. I also encourage everyone to use a beta!

Thank you for your comments and the discussion!

[malruniel11]

Thank you! That last line's a kicker. It makes me tear up. lol