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  • General Fiction Novels Re: Watching The Sky Burn #1

    This reminded me ever so much of Neverwhere . It's not the same genre and is it's own story entirely, but the general flavor of it felt rather Gaiman-esque. Me ...

    Aug 14, 2010
  • Fantasy Short Stories Re: Bug Defines Herself and Names a Buttercup Boy

    Is... Is that it? Please tell me that there is more! *begs* Seriously, I really liked this. I've seen attempts (some of which were mine) at "whimsical" that just fall ...

    Aug 12, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: Your favourite fairytale?

    'Snow White and Rose Red', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Puss in Boots' were always my favorites as a kid, but recently I discovered the huge anthology of Brothers Grimm ...

    Aug 11, 2010
  • Writing Tips Re: I Need Help

    What Kyllorac and Rosey said. Practice All of us want to write achingly beautiful things, but you have to start with the basics. Short stories are fabulous for practice because ...

    Aug 11, 2010
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Cutting the Feet From Under You

    Hey-oh! Review time! The Great Wall of Text It looks like it's YWS's fault more than yours, but the text is all jammed together in a big wall of text. ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • Action/Adventure Short Stories Re: One Eye Open

    I'm a little confused as to why the first few paragraphs had dividers between them. If they were talking about different subjects, sure, but they all seem to be connected ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The ANZAC (Edit)

    I liked this. I liked the characters and I liked the setting. It all felt wonderfully fleshed out. The only problem I had with it was the ending. I mean, ...

    Jul 30, 2010
  • Fiction Discussion Re: Multiple POV? Is it worth it?

    It really does depend. I usually write in more than one POV since I like the different perspectives it can give me. The important thing is to make sure that ...

    Jul 29, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: Bird-Brain (Part 1) - UPDATED

    Hey-oh! Grammar-wise, there were a few issues, but overall fairly solid. Yet I really couldn't get into the story at all. Characters This was the main issue. They feel so ...

    Jul 28, 2010
  • General Fiction Novels Re: Scotch: Chapter One

    Hello there and welcome to YWS! I'm GryphonFledgling and I'll be your reviewer today! Description Dump You kinda hit us hard with the description at the beginning of the chapter. ...

    Jul 28, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Unicorn Killers

    Hokay, first off, I agree with pretty much everything Stella said. I disagree in that I was seriously confused as to who the dog belonged to. I'm assuming that it ...

    Jul 26, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alexis and the pUffballs chapter 2

    Alrighty now... First off, you need to space your paragraphs out a bit. As is, they were getting all clumped together and making this big blocks of text that were ...

    Jul 25, 2010
  • Fantasy Novels Re: Alexis and the Puffballs chapter 1/prologue

    Okay, it was your title that dragged me in. I clicked on your novel and it was the synopsis that make me read on. Seriously, this has got to be ...

    Jul 25, 2010
  • Lounge, The Re: Review Day July 2010 Check-In Thread

    Well, I wanted to just up and do like 30 or something, but between work and church and waking up late, that's certainly not going to happen. Plus the reviews ...

    Jul 25, 2010
  • General Fiction Short Stories Re: The Artist and the Philosopher

    My first reaction reading this was that it wasn't all that realistic. I mean, who talks like that? How many people are having conversations like that just hours after meeting? ...

    Jul 25, 2010


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