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  • Romantic Novels Re: Whispers - Prologue

    Hello! Die, prologue (blurb?). Seriously. Fantastic plot – if I read it on the back of a book, I'd pick it up most definitely – but as a reader, I'd ...

    Apr 8, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Elemental Quest - The Immortal Seven (Chp 1 & 2)

    Hello! Welcome to YWS, a superb writing site :) Hmm. All I'm seeing here is backstory – some awesome, fantastic, thought-through backstory, but backstory nevertheless. It's not action happening here

    Apr 8, 2010
  • General Fiction Novels Re: The Night Bird - Chapter 2

    Hey! I liked tag turning into hide-and-seek – very nice illustration of what was happening. But at some point, Lissa is afraid to touch the bird (diseases). In the beginning ...

    Apr 7, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The Lost Stranger

    Hello! One thing that I notice – a lot of sentences start out with a pronoun, „she”. This makes the most interesting and colorful baloon deflate, because writing becomes repeatable. ...

    Apr 7, 2010
  • General Fiction Novels Re: The Night Bird - Chapter 1

    Welcome to YWS, it's a superb writing site. If I were asked to take a big red marker and divide this chapter into parts, I'd know exactly where to put ...

    Apr 5, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Darkness Descending

    Hello! Welcome to YWS, a very terrific place indeed :) OK, so description is the central part of this story, since nothing is spoken (and so no dialogue) and nothing ...

    Apr 5, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Witches of Algernon (Part 1 of chpt. 2)

    Hello, We have the MC in a Situation. The character then quite properly Mulls It Over and reaches a certain Conclusion – because honsetly, how long would anyoen put up ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Ordinary

    Hello! Welcome to YWS, hope you'll love it here. OK, so you've got a novel idea as to how to show a story. The spacing and lettering out and the ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: The Swordmaster's Path- part 2

    Hello! Haven't read part one, so I'll just crit this without having anything to fall back on – it has less reviews then the other one. quote: Dracven had seen ...

    Apr 4, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Elemental Thirteen Prologue (Rewritten)

    Hello! I don't understand the italics part and that's bothering me. Scrolled down, skimmed, saw sthing in (maybe) Latin, went "oooh", but there's not aserisk or whatnot and translation. I ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: More from Serpent Riddle... Ivan the Drunk :D Enjoy!

    Hello, Welcome to YWS, hope you'll love it here and will have a splending time! Remember to review others' works, too :) Haha I seriously had the title assosiated with ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Icefire - part 6

    Hello, I'm back :) _ quote: Amber walked along at a casual, relaxed pace, although she wanted to run. Comma although she wanted to run - doesn't work at all. ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Novels Re: Naked Wilderness - Concept -

    Hello, Welcome to YWS, know you'll love it here if you love writing :) But do you know you'd prolly get more reviews if you reviewed others' works? Hey. I'd ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: White Horse (One-Shot)

    Hello! Argh dialogue punctuation. Maybe Demter's terrific post will help? Here's the link: That's especially important since the whole piece is almost solely made up of dialogue. Now, about that. ...

    Apr 3, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: The sea is cruel

    Hello! Welcome to YWS, a very superb writing site :) First thing first, dialogue punctuation. In this piece it's wrong, but don't worry, quite easy to learn if you just ...

    Apr 3, 2010


Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there.” I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska