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  • Short Story » General, General Re: A Short Story: "Voices"

    JennaLL, Welcome to YWS, aye? T’is a most wonderful sight, but very addicting. Anyway, to your story - my crits are as follows: first is the line-by-line one (read: nitpicks), ...

    May 21, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Mist. Mysterious. Mystical. (Chapter 1)

    rubberduck, Hello there. Esme here, and it’s me who’ll have the pleasure of critting your piece. Onward, then. Quote: He needed to hear the sound of his own voice for ...

    May 21, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Machinations #2 (part 1)

    Kylan, First of all, I’d like to say that I couldn’t wait for the next installment - and here it is, making me all giddy. So, I’ll discard any attempts ...

    May 21, 2008
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Russell's improvement.

    Loose, I think I’ll just echo your avatar - brilliant. So much for a constructive critique, yes? But there really wasn’t anything I could be nitpicky about, or in general ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Title yet to be determined

    Stockmar, That is one long paragraph that you go there, seriously. I stared and stared at it before even reading your story, and… that is not a good sign. However, ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: You're on in Five

    LovableLittleSock, First of all, hello. That short inrto over, let’s move on to the mechanics of the crit: I’ll start out with a usual line-by-line one, and then’ll come any ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Chapter one AGB

    enzoguy15, I was about to say - and squirm a bit while doing so - that my stuff is longer, and that there’s no need to worry about it, I ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Other » General, General Re: Where The Heart Is: Chapter One

    Ballroomdancer95, Welcome to YWS (it’s an awesome site!), but… I know that everyone wants to have their work critiqued - I do, too - but here at YWS we have ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: The Jane Effect

    Angel of Death, I’ll start out by saying that the text would be easier to read if it were spaced. Of course, that never stopped anyone if the story was ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Duty Chapter 2 {Being Edited}

    Scasha, Well, I only read the rewrite of chapter one, so everything should be clear to me, yes? ^^ On with the critique, same rules as always. Quote: Suddenly, the ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Chapter 1, The Duty {Being Edited}

    scasha, I didn’t read the original chapter, but I’ll critique this. As always, a line-by-line one will be followed by any impressions and comments that I might have. Edit: Damn, ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: colors of the sun.

    Medusa, Hello. Was skimming through the Fiction forums, stumbled upon your story, and thought I’d critique. Anyway, first’ll come the line-by-line one, and then impressions, etc. Quote: On rotten

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » Historical Fiction, General Re: Genocide

    Muteman, Spacing is cool, yes. And so long as the text is good, who’d care for the length? Anyway, as always with my crits, first will come the irritating (I ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Translucent

    kittykat, As usual with my critiques, I’ll give you a line-by-line one first, and then I’ll move to impressions. Quote: Now if your wondering where here is, you would have ...

    May 19, 2008
  • Novel / Chapter » Historical Fiction, General Re: ~Michelangelo's Night and Day~Chapter Three

    ashley, I must say that I personally am not happy at all by the length. Grr. But, onto my critique… Quote: “Oh, what a warm welcome for an old man.” ...

    May 18, 2008


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