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Re: In The Company of a Vampire: Chp 1 Prt 2/3
Hey, Is this book1? If no, ignore. If yes - I don't particularly like the chapter/book-in-general starting off with two deaths of people clearly clsoe to the protagonist's heart, but ...
Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:43 pm -
Re: Violent Roses (the first 2 pages.)
Hello! As others before me mentioned, this is one chunky block of a paragraph. The general rule is to start a new line when a new characters begins speaking. Splits ...
Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:01 am -
Re: The Ghost In My Bedroom
Hello! Article on dialogue punctuation by Demeter can be found here: Since you have so much dialogue, you absolutely have to get it right!! This dialogue, somebody above said it's ...
Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:45 am -
Re: nameless story
Hello! If Rowling had only started and not finished off - we'd all be terribly unhappy, wouldn't we? Writing for fun and practise and whatever else without finishing is fine, ...
Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:08 am -
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 ...
Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:35 am -
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
Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:09 am -
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 ...
Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:55 pm -
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. ...
Wed Apr 07, 2010 5:16 pm -
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 ...
Mon Apr 05, 2010 3:02 pm -
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 ...
Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:06 am -
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 ...
Sun Apr 04, 2010 7:20 pm -
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 ...
Sun Apr 04, 2010 11:18 am -
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 ...
Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:58 am -
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 ...
Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:06 pm -
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 ...
Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:30 pm
