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Esmé

  • Novel / Chapter » Historical Fiction, General Re: The Earlswood Confession: Part One

    Hi - no reviews at all? quote: There wasn’t anything now that could take me back to the way things were. I'm told an elephant must have stepped on my ...

    Mar 28, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: His story.

    Hello! quote: dragging shells away, and giving them new life. No comma. quote: Chaos was what I needed, what I craved. Eeeh. quote: instead of the leisurely pace they insisted ...

    Mar 28, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Action / Adventure, General Re: New Story Prologue

    Hi, Semicolons are stupid, don't use semicolons. Anything that has a period floating above a comma is suspicious. Anyhow, I honestly don't know what to say - it's just one ...

    Mar 27, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: A Criminal's Heart- Chapter 2

    Hi, l'll be ignoring grammar and the such as Meep seems to have that covered - no use repeating what others have said and said well. quote: She looked beautiful ...

    Mar 27, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The crow's call, Part one.

    Hello, I like your writing style, I like how particular words are used together and the description in the first paragraph was awesome. But it's the first paragraph! The one ...

    Mar 26, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Can you see me? (Prologue)

    Hello, My main problem with this piece is that it's wordy, terribly wordy in terms of tails in the beginning. There are so many of them in sentences that at ...

    Mar 22, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: fantasy

    Hey, First of all, proper dialogue punctuation is key in a piece that does have dialogue. It's very, very easy and once you get the hang of it, do it ...

    Mar 7, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Break the Chains 1

    Hey, Confusion was mentioned, but I wasn't confused - and would pounce at the opportunity to criticize this piece somehow, pretending to be helpful all the while turning green with ...

    Mar 6, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Swimming Against the Kolyma River

    Hi, Everyone knows Auschwitz. Everyone. But one of the biggest ironies in history (and this is solely my personal opinion) is that the camp was liberated by - the Red ...

    Mar 5, 2010
  • Short Story » Action / Adventure, General Re: A scene from my story

    Hey. Highly attention grabbing title you have there. :xd: He did this, he did that. That's basically the whole first paragraph, minus the dialogue sentence. The first part of the ...

    Mar 2, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Acheron (work in progress)

    Hi. Consider reviewing two pieces equal in length to the one you posted before posting at all. I think it's in the YWS rules somewhere. Acheron like Sherrilyn Kenyon's Acheron? ...

    Mar 1, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Limitless: Chapter One (rated 12+ for fantasy and violence)

    Hello, Gentelman's Quarterly! (it appears one pokes at people's names by default after being ask one too many times - "Twilight"?!). quote: Oh, but it was anything but. Reeks of ...

    Feb 28, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Devil's Own

    Hey. Nice catchy title - packaging goes a long way. And to answer your question, everything's worth continuing and making better. To the review itself, though. The beginning - I ...

    Feb 28, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Chapter 1 - The Stranger

    Hello! Notice how almost all the paragraphs of the chapter are one-liners? Well, those do get the plot across – the reader knows what’s happening, there’s a setting and we ...

    Jun 13, 2009
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Sitting in a Rainbow [1]

    Hello! That first paragraph – I was taken back by it, a bit, and then had to reread to finally see the tale/tail thing. That last was inattentiveness on my ...

    Jun 12, 2009


“Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouraging sober reflection upon one's imperfections.”
— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell