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  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General 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 ...

    Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:01 am
  • Short Story » General, General 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. ...

    Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:50 am
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General 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 ...

    Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:35 am
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Survive - Chapter One: Genesis (re-written)

    Hello! Don't think you are :) _ Got lost in the forest - I don't like it. So the beginning is boring. It's well-written, maybe (apart from one aspect I'll ...

    Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:33 pm
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: Blood Tears (Chapter 8)

    Hello! Well, first off, guys fall for plain Janes in novels. Meaning, an occasional "said" doesn't hurt :) I saw some wonderful tags (informed, emitted, chuckled) - and those are ...

    Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:50 pm
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Lorelei

    Hello, I once had a character named Lorelei haha - or something similar, I forget now. Kind of sad, that. Pfft I was so first with my review! Now I ...

    Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:51 pm
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Renegade Children page one

    Hello, Welcome to YWS :) Alright, the first thing that comes to mind when just skimming over - not yet even reading - is that there is soo much dialogue ...

    Fri Apr 02, 2010 9:52 am
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Icefire - part 6

    Hello, I'll be honest and say that I haven't read any previous posts from this series - so I'll be reviewing this as if I found a page ripped out ...

    Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:16 pm
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: In The Dark - Chapter 1

    Hello! Welcome to YWS, hope you'll love it here :) OK, first thing: dialogue punctuation! It's a little thing that seemingly might not have anything to do with the story ...

    Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:44 pm
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Footsteps (tentative title)

    Mell! Hello, welcome to YWS, hope you'll stay with us forever and ever. Haha I remember how nervous I was when I posted for the first time (I'm so old! ...

    Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:39 am
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: Hope

    Hello, Exciting beginning, pulled me right in - masterfully done. From that end, it was terrific. Loads of active words and appropriate descriptions. No telling us how the weather looks ...

    Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:13 am
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Green Tree chapter two .

    Zibbie, Hi, welcome to YWS, hope you'll stay with us forever and ever :) Anyhow, the first thing that comes to mind is, yep, "she sat, looking down at her ...

    Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:52 am
  • Novel / Chapter » Historical Fiction, General Re: Out of Harms Way chapter 2

    Hello, Welcome to YWS, hope you'll have a lovely time and will stay with us forever! Just remember that you'll probably get more reviews if you review others' works, yes? ...

    Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:13 pm
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: September Ch. 1

    Hello, Welcome to YWS, hope you'll have a splendid time here :) One thing I noticed is that most of your paragraph's are one-liners, and I didn't like that at ...

    Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:29 pm
  • Novel / Chapter » Romantic, General Re: Cold Bitter Air (pt.2 of 5)

    Hey, So many pronouns in that first paragraph! Almost every sentence starts with "his", "he" - one with "she" and that would be about it. Interest factor immediately goes down, ...

    Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:37 pm


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