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Karsten

  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Petals of Iris - Chapter 1 (Complete Rewrite)

    Now, my favorite part: You've jumped to conclusions =). Have I wrote that it's just a fighting tourney? Do you know already what the tourney is really like? No. Did ...

    Mar 12, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Flash Of Insight

    Hiadel, I can't quite figure out whether your constant use of narrative summary is deliberate or accidental. So I have a question for you - Is there a reason why ...

    Mar 9, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Sparrowhawk Soar (War For Capture) Revised & Rewritten

    Hi Maddy, I'm afraid I had difficulty with this piece. My primary problem was with the writing. The grammar is poor, suggesting a lack of proofreading. Misused words are creating ...

    Mar 7, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: Operation 70EX Prologue

    Hi Keisa, This was an interesting piece. I feel like I'm already slightly too familiar with this setting - generic 1984-type dystopian future - but the lack of parents was ...

    Mar 7, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Prince and the Lost Sword

    Hi bookgeek, While I enjoyed some elements of this story, overall I felt that it was let down by serious and persistent grammar problems. Nearly every sentence features an accidental ...

    Mar 6, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Castle Gladeheart

    Hi Hiadel, Overall, I feel ambivalent about this piece. I'm not sure I agree with your decision to tell everything that happened with narrative summary rather than show us the ...

    Mar 6, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: The Cursed Ones - chapter one and prologue

    Hi mminc, Just some quick comments for you today. I found the opening dry. It's essentially an infodump, a pile of information about the protagonist's physical appearance and family tree, ...

    Mar 4, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: Buyer Beware

    Hi Barrett, Like the other readers, I found this a little confusing, but I also enjoyed it very much. The opening paragraph is particularly powerful. You have many such powerful ...

    Mar 4, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Stranger

    I'm sorry - I don't know where napalmerski as got this information from. It is certainly not published and I am a bit upset by this. I came here for ...

    Mar 1, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: Aesta: Chapter 1- The Soldier

    It takes more than two hours for people to read and review your work - particularly when those two hours are, for a significant proportion of YWSers, in the middle ...

    Mar 1, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » General, General Re: Canyon Song (Working title) Prologue and Chapter 1

    Hi Explosive Pen, This was a pleasure to read. Parts of your writing are breathtaking. What I'm not seeing at the moment is the plot that drives this story forward ...

    Feb 28, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Science Fiction, General Re: FREAK

    Karsten>> Thanks! Easiest critique you had to do, right? ;) :D I love giving unconditional praise. My critique partner gets that so rarely that it freaks her out. Don't freak ...

    Feb 25, 2010
  • Short Story » Fantasy, General Re: The Chronicles Of A Teenage Vampire

    *sigh* why can't everyone get over Twilight and stop writing stories so heavily based off of it? It's my own personal hell. Please don't post another chapter. :( I frequently ...

    Feb 25, 2010
  • Short Story » General, General Re: The Eyes of a Child

    Just a drive-by comment, Lena. I assumed within the first paragraph that the protagonist was a paedophile, and as I read on, I only became more certain of that. (1) ...

    Feb 21, 2010
  • Novel / Chapter » Fantasy, General Re: (Part 1)

    Hi Amie, I'll try to be as "brutally constructive" with this review as you wanted. :P This piece suffers from very poor grammar. You've consistently misused commas to create ungrammatical ...

    Feb 21, 2010


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