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  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Experiment: Failure (Prologue-Chapter One)

    Here for a review. I'll split this into a couple of categories dealing with my main points. Purpose of the Prologue You rarely need a prologue, and I'd say that ...

    Aug 13, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Lucky Number Seven

    Hey, HG, welcome to YWS! I see you haven't had any reviews yet, so I thought I'd give you your first. Is this going to be a short story or ...

    Aug 13, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Girl On the Pond - A fairy tale.

    Like the reviewer above, I enjoyed this. I won't nitpick fully, but only point out some recurring problems I had - then I'll move on to some more general positives ...

    Aug 10, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Fixing Things

    I haven't read much of your work before, but even in a piece this short, I really like your writing style. It flows well and there were no awkward sentences ...

    Aug 10, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Poppet

    Hi, A2DS. You've already said that you're not too keen on nitpicks, so I'll give you a general review. On the whole, this was a refreshing read, but I'll give ...

    Aug 9, 2010
  • Short Story » Science Fiction, General Re: A Quaint Little Township

    Hey, Sean. I'll second seeminglymeaningless in that you should take the story out of quotes and hide your author's note, mainly because both are distracting to the reader. Of course ...

    Aug 5, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Hidden Faces (Chapter 2)

    Hi again, UCCM. Back for another review! This time, due to the length, I'm going to nitpick to the ends of the earth and back as per my usual reviews. ...

    Jul 18, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Hidden Faces

    I just typed up a whole review and my browser failed. *hits computer* Welcome to YWS, U. This is one of the best "first posts" I've seen in a long ...

    Jul 18, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Little Do You Know, Breathing is a Privilige-Prologue

    Welcome to YWS, MyStoryline. This is quite effectively written and as the above reviewer said, it's a very sad topic to read about. I won't pretend I know anything about ...

    Jul 18, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: Abandoning Fear

    Hi, Chryssa, and welcome to YWS. I haven't much to say that Night Owl and Soda didn't cover, so I'll just repeat a bit. I suppose it's always worth getting ...

    Jul 18, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Rozion: The Warrior Within

    Hey there, Veiyloxx. Welcome to YWS! So this is where that username comes from, I suppose? I'll be reading through and nitpicking as I go, and then I'll give a ...

    Jul 18, 2010
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: Have Faith in Me

    Hey! Here for a review. I'll start off with nitpicks, and then go into general criticisms. This is an incredibly powerful storyline and I know someone going through something similar; ...

    Jul 17, 2010
  • Article / Essay » General, General Re: The Lens

    I feel that you need to connect to the reader more. Let us into his (the MC's) head. Give him more emotions. It was also strange how this piece seemed ...

    Jul 17, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Blackout Forever -- Chp. 2-Part 1

    Back to review your second chapter. I'm not going to nitpick, as this is mostly grammatically sound, nor am I going to hammer home the "show, don't tell" point again, ...

    Jul 17, 2010
  • Short Story » Romantic, General Re: .

    Here as requested! I know you mainly want a character dissection for this, but I'm going to go ahead and nitpick anyway before I look at characters. There isn't that ...

    Jul 17, 2010


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