Karsten

Do the teasers have to be from novels? and do they have to be polished? Because not a lot of my stuff is polished at the moment lol Hi becks! ...

You're welcome to PM me, but I do have anonymous comments enabled, so you could comment on the post if you like. :) Reading your teaser now! edit: Ha! That ...

Today is Teaser Tuesday! On Tuesdays everyone shares their work, catches up on what everyone else is writing, and spreads the comment love. So hop to it! :D 1. Post ...

Hi Amy, At first I found myself getting quite bogged down in the writing here, which I think is suffering from a case of redundant redundancy, but as I read ...

Hi Elinor, I enjoyed the many Christmas references in this piece. Finding them is like a treasure hunt! Rudolph and the Scrooge references might be obvious, but Christian’s first name ...

Why not a Socrates styled benevolent dictatorship? Communism has been proven effective through years of large scale testing. Why reinvent the wheel? I love this. :lol:

This is a common problem with, I think, some easy fixes. 1. Skip minor actions unless they're important. Your example takes four separate actions (looked over shoulder, turned around, walked ...

Thanks very much everyone! I'm thrilled (despite the bleeding) to win this month's gladiatorial combat , and my apologies to the people I maimed along the way. :P

Hi forgotten, I’ve read everything you’ve posted so far, so this is a review of the story as a whole. Overall, while I enjoyed the description and thought the imagery ...

I love your reviews, Tex. Nice work. :)

Hi VL, Just adding a few more comments to Tex's excellent review. The opening paragraph where Leiya speaks directly to the audience feels kind of patronising to me. I'm not ...

Hi Rosey, It’s refreshing to read something that is fundamentally well-written. The writing here is clean and readable, and I enjoyed the world-building. And I think that’s why I feel ...

I like to imagine that the Featured Member is the survivor of a secretive and highly illegal behind-the-scenes gladiators' tournament.

I really like this. Good voice, good use of sentence structure, great characterisation. I'd read on. :)

Karsten! If I remember Chat correctly from yesterday, you said you wouldn't mind reading my story? (To jog your memory, I had the arrange marriage as a normal-ish thing) I ...