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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 ...

    Sun Mar 28, 2010 1:11 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sun Mar 28, 2010 12:01 am
  • 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 ...

    Sat Mar 27, 2010 9:19 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:42 pm
  • 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 ...

    Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:34 pm
  • 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 ...

    Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:28 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sun Mar 07, 2010 12:36 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sat Mar 06, 2010 8:13 pm
  • 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 ...

    Fri Mar 05, 2010 4:31 pm
  • 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 ...

    Tue Mar 02, 2010 5:14 pm
  • 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? ...

    Mon Mar 01, 2010 7:46 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sun Feb 28, 2010 10:20 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sun Feb 28, 2010 9:23 pm
  • 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 ...

    Sat Jun 13, 2009 8:38 pm
  • 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 ...

    Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:09 pm


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