The Alternity Re-Read: October, Year 1

[alt_moderator]

As with September, here is the October pdf file.

This post is spoiler-free, but there is no need to avoid spoilers in the comments.

Comments

[longstrider]

Or eleven. I remember commenting on that as a reader wayyyy back in the day on alt-fen.lj

[gwendolyngrace]

Yeah, but when we brought in characters (Padma) who really were more eleven-sounding / writing, there were complaints about it being too hard to read. So Padma's spelling improved markedly in the space of a few weeks.

Can't win.

[atheilen.livejournal.com]

FWIW, though, I remember being impressed with how the change in Padma's spelling illuminated her characterization, so I think it was made into a win!

[flourish]

It would have been much better if we had come up with an excuse for not having bad spellings, like the Dictaquills. Eleven year olds are usually much more articulate in speech than they are in writing, and it's easier to write eleven year old spoken voices than eleven year old writing.